Startup System Options Listed Alphabetically

A C D E F H I L M N O P R S T U V W

Name	Syntax and Description
ALIGNSASIOFILES System Option	ALIGNSASIOFILES NOALIGNSASIOFILES Aligns output data on a page boundary to improve performance. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN System Option	AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN \(provider-1 : domain-1 <, provider-2 : domain-2, ...> \) Associates a domain suffix with an authentication provider. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AUTOEXEC System Option	-AUTOEXEC file-specification AUTOEXEC \(file-specification-1 <...file-specification-n>\) -NOAUTOEXEC Specifies the location of the SAS autoexec file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AZUREAUTHCACHELOC System Option	-AZUREAUTHCACHELOC "location" Specifies the location of a file that contains logon information for connecting to a Microsoft Azure storage system Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CATCACHE= System Option	CATCACHE=n \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of SAS catalogs to keep open in cache memory. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CHKPTCLEAN System Option	CHKPTCLEAN NOCHKPTCLEAN When SAS is in checkpoint mode or restart mode, specifies whether to erase the contents of the Work library after a batch program executes successfully. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CONFIG System Option	CONFIG file-specification NOCONFIG Specifies the configuration file that is used when initializing or overriding the values of SAS system options. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CPUID System Option	CPUID NOCPUID Specifies whether the CPU identification number is written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DATAPAGESIZE= System Option	DATAPAGESIZE=COMPAT93 \| CURRENT Specifies how SAS determines the optimal buffer size for a SAS data set or utility file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DMR System Option	DMR NODMR Specifies whether to enable SAS to invoke a server session for use with a SAS/CONNECT client. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ECHO System Option	ECHO 'message' NOECHO Specifies a message to be echoed to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ENGINE= System Option	ENGINE=engine-name Specifies the default access method for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FILELOCKWAIT= System Option	FILELOCKWAIT=wait-time Sets the number of seconds that SAS waits for a locked file to become available. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FILELOCKWAITMAX= System Option	FILELOCKWAITMAX=wait-time Sets an upper limit on the time SAS waits for a locked file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FILESYNC= System Option	FILESYNC= SAS \| CLOSE \| HOST \| SAVE Specifies when operating system buffers that contain contents of permanent SAS files are written to disk. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FONTSLOC= System Option	FONTSLOC=location Specifies the location of the fonts that are supplied by SAS; names the default font file location for registering fonts that use the FONTREG procedure. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
HTTPNOPROXY= System Option	HTTPNOPROXY=hostname <...hostname> Specifies the hosts that are not to be proxied. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
HTTPPROXY= System Option	HTTPPROXY=hostname<:port-number> Specifies the proxy host and optional port. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
HTTPSERVERPORTMAX= System Option	HTTPSERVERPORTMAX=max-port-number Specifies the highest port number that can be used by the SAS HTTP server for remote browsing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
HTTPSERVERPORTMIN= System Option	HTTPSERVERPORTMIN=min-port-number Specifies the lowest port number that can be used by the SAS HTTP server for remote browsing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
INITCMD System Option	INITCMD "command-1 <windowing-command-n> " Specifies an application invocation command and optional SAS windowing environment or text editor commands that SAS executes after processing the AUTOEXEC= file and the INITSTMT option during SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LABELCHKPT System Option	LABELCHKPT NOLABELCHKPT Specifies whether checkpoint-restart data for labeled code sections is to be recorded for batch programs. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LABELCHKPTLIB= System Option	LABELCHKPTLIB=libref Specifies the libref of the library where the checkpoint-restart data is saved for labeled code sections. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LABELRESTART System Option	LABELRESTART NOLABELRESTART Specifies whether to execute a batch program by using checkpoint-restart data for data collected at labeled code sections. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LOG System Option	LOG file-specification NOLOG Specifies a destination for the SAS log when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LOGPARM= System Option	LOGPARM="<OPEN= APPEND \| REPLACE \| REPLACEOLD> < ROLLOVER= AUTO \| NONE \| SESSION \| n \| nK \| nM \| nG> < WRITE= BUFFERED \| IMMEDIATE> " Note: You can also use the KB, MB, and GB notations. Specifies when SAS log files are opened, closed, and, in conjunction with the LOG= system option, how they are named. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MEMSIZE System Option	MEMSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MAX Specifies the limit on the total amount of virtual memory that can be used by a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MSG System Option	MSG pathname MSG ('pathname' 'pathname' ...) Specifies the library that contains the SAS error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MSGCASE System Option	MSGCASE NOMSGCASE Specifies whether notes, warnings, and error messages that are generated by SAS are displayed in uppercase characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
NEWS= System Option	NEWS=external-file NONEWS Specifies an external file that contains messages to be written to the SAS log, immediately after the header. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
OPLIST System Option	OPLIST NOOPLIST Specifies whether the settings of the SAS system options are written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFPASSWORD= System Option	PDFPASSWORD=(OPEN=password \| OPEN="password" < OWNER=password \| OWNER="password">) PDFPASSWORD=(OWNER=password \| OWNER="password" <OPEN=password \| OPEN="password">) PDFPASSWORD=(OPEN=password \| OPEN="password") PDFPASSWORD=(OWNER=password \| OWNER="password") Specifies the password to use to open a PDF document and the password used by a PDF document owner to set document permissions and restrictions. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN= System Option	PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN=domain-name Specifies the domain name of the primary authentication provider. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PRINT System Option	PRINT file-specification NOPRINT Specifies a destination for SAS output when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PROTOLIBS System Option	PROTOLIBS=NONE \| OS_PATHS \| SAS_PATHS \| (OS_PATHS, SAS_PATHS) \| (“user-path-1”,“user-path-n”) \| (OS_PATHS, SAS_PATHS, “user-path-1”,“user-path-n”) \| (‘user-path-1’ SAS_PATHS ‘user-path-n’) \| (OS_PATHS ‘user-path-1’ ‘user-path-n’) Specifies the paths that PROC PROTO can use to find and register load modules. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
REALMEMSIZE System Option	REALMEMSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the amount of real (physical) memory SAS can expect to allocate. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RLANG System Option	RLANG NORLANG Specifies whether SAS executes R language statements within SAS/IML. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RSASUSER System Option	RSASUSER NORSASUSER Specifies whether to open the Sasuser library for Read access or Read-Write access. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RTRACE System Option	RTRACE ALL \| NONE \| VER Produces a list of resources that are read or loaded during a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SASHELP= System Option	SASHELP=library-specification Specifies the location of the Sashelp library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SASUSER= System Option	SASUSER=library-specification \| pathname Specifies the SAS library to use as the Sasuser library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SERVICESBASEURL= System Option	SERVICESBASEURL="your-site-services-URL<:port-number>" Specifies the root URL used to connect to SAS Viya services. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SETINIT System Option	SETINIT NOSETINIT Specifies whether site license information can be altered. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STARTLIB System Option	STARTLIB NOSTARTLIB Specifies whether SAS assigns user-defined permanent librefs when SAS starts. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STEPCHKPT System Option	STEPCHKPT NOSTEPCHKPT Specifies whether checkpoint-restart data for DATA and PROC steps is to be recorded for a batch program. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STEPCHKPTLIB= System Option	STEPCHKPTLIB=libref Specifies the libref of the library where checkpoint-restart data for DATA and PROC steps is saved. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STEPRESTART System Option	STEPRESTART NOSTEPRESTART Specifies whether to execute a batch program by using checkpoint-restart data for DATA and PROC steps. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SYSIN System Option	SYSIN filename NOSYSIN Specifies the default location of SAS source code when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TERMINAL System Option	TERMINAL NOTERMINAL Specifies whether to associate a terminal with a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TERMSTMT= System Option	TERMSTMT='statement(s)' Specifies the SAS statements to execute when SAS terminates. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
UTILLOC= System Option	UTILLOC=WORK \| filename \| location \| (location-1 location-2 ...) Specifies one or more file system locations in which enabled threaded applications can store utility files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
UUIDGENDHOST= System Option	UUIDGENDHOST='host-string' Identifies the host and port or the LDAP URL that the UUID Generator Daemon runs on. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VERBOSE System Option	VERBOSE NOVERBOSE Specifies whether SAS writes the system option settings to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
WORK= System Option	WORK filename \| directory Specifies the Work library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
WORKINIT System Option	WORKINIT NOWORKINIT Specifies whether to initialize the Work library at SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
WORKPERMS System Option	WORKPERMS permission-value Sets the permissions of the SAS Work library when it is initially created. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference

Last updated: March 23, 2022