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SAS Language Elements by Name, Product, and Category
 

System Options Listed Alphabetically

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

Name
Syntax and Description
ACCESSIBLECHECK System Option
ACCESSIBLECHECK
NOACCESSIBLECHECK
Specifies whether to check for common violations of accessibility standards and to write messages to the SAS log if problems are found.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ACCESSIBLEGRAPH System Option
ACCESSIBLEGRAPH
NOACCESSIBLEGRAPH
Specifies, by default, to create accessible ODS graphics for the ODS5 destination by enabling the ACCESSIBLE_GRAPH option in the ODS HTML5 statement.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ACCESSIBLEPDF System Option
ACCESSIBLEPDF
NOACCESSIBLEPDF
Specifies, by default, to create accessible graphs in PDF documents by enabling the ACCESSIBLE option in the ODS PDF statement.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ACCESSIBLETABLE System Option
ACCESSIBLETABLE
NOACCESSIBLETABLE
Specifies whether to create accessible tables by default.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ANIMATION= System Option
ANIMATION=START | STOP
Specifies whether to start or stop creating animation frames.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ANIMDURATION= System Option
ANIMDURATION=duration | MIN
Specifies the amount of time that each frame in the animation is held in view.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ANIMLOOP= System Option
ANIMLOOP=YES | NO | n
Specifies whether the animation loop is played continuously or is played once, or specifies a specific number of times that the animation loop is repeated.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ANIMOVERLAY System Option
ANIMOVERLAY
NOANIMOVERLAY
Specifies whether animation frames are overlaid or whether they are played sequentially.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
APPEND= System Option
APPEND=(system-option-1=argument-1 <system-option-2=argument-2 ...>)
Appends a value to the existing value of the specified system option.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AUTHINFO= System Option
AUTHINFO='authinfo_file_path';
Specifies a file where user ID and passwords are kept for authentication.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AUTOCORRECT System Option
AUTOCORRECT
NOAUTOCORRECT
Specifies whether SAS attempts to automatically correct misspelled procedure names, misspelled procedure keywords, or misspelled global statement names.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AZURETENANTID= System Option
AZURETENANTID="tenant-id"
Specifies the tenant ID for connecting to a Microsoft Azure storage system
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
BOMFILE System Option
BOMFILE
NOBOMFILE
Specifies whether to write the byte-order mark (BOM) prefix on Unicode-encoded external files.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
BOTTOMMARGIN= System Option
BOTTOMMARGIN=margin-size<margin-unit>
Specifies the size of the margin at the bottom of a printed page.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
BUFNO= System Option
BUFNO=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing SAS data sets.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BUFNO= System Option
BUFNO=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, and GB notations.
Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing SAS data sets.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
BUFSIZE= System Option
BUFSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MAX
Specifies the permanent buffer page size for output SAS data sets.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BUFSIZE= System Option
BUFSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the permanent buffer size for output SAS data sets.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
BYERR System Option
BYERR
NOBYERR
Specifies whether SAS produces errors when the SORT procedure attempts to process a _NULL_ data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
BYLINE System Option
BYLINE
NOBYLINE
Specifies whether to print BY lines above each BY group.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
BYSORTED System Option
BYSORTED
NOBYSORTED
Specifies whether observations in one or more data sets are sorted in alphabetic or numeric order or are grouped in another logical order.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CAPS System Option
CAPS
NOCAPS
Specifies whether to convert certain types of input to uppercase.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CARDIMAGE System Option
CARDIMAGE
NOCARDIMAGE
Specifies whether SAS processes source and data lines as 80-byte cards.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASDATALIMIT= System Option
CASDATALIMIT=integer | integerK | integerM | integerG | ALL
Specifies the maximum number of bytes of data from a single CAS table that can be transferred from the CAS server to SAS.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASHOST= System Option
CASHOST= "Kubernetes-service-name"
Specifies the CAS server that is associated with a CAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASLIB= System Option
CASLIB="name"
Specifies the caslib name for the session that is identified by the SESSREF= option.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASNCHARMULTIPLIER= System Option
CASNCHARMULTIPLIER=n
Specifies a multiplication factor that is used to increase the number of bytes for a fixed character variable when using the CAS LIBNAME engine and data is transcoded to the UTF-8 encoding in order to run in the CAS server.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASNWORKERS= System Option
CASNWORKERS= ALL | number
Specifies the number of worker nodes to use for a CAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASPORT= System Option
CASPORT=port-number
Specifies the port to use when connecting to CAS.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASSESSOPTS= System Option
CASSESSOPTS=(session-options)
Specifies one or more session options for the active CAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASTIMEOUT= System Option
CASTIMEOUT= n | nK | nM | hexX | MAX | MIN
Specifies the CAS session time-out in seconds for new sessions. The session time-out starts when the number of connections to the session becomes zero and all session activity is complete.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CASUSER= System Option
CASUSER= user-ID
Specifies the user ID to use when connecting to CAS.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CBUFNO= System Option
CBUFNO=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the number of extra page buffers to allocate for each open SAS catalog.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CENTER System Option
CENTER
NOCENTER
Specifies whether to center or left-align SAS procedure output.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CGOPTIMIZE= System Option
CGOPTIMIZE=0 | 1 | 2 | 3
Specifies the level of optimization to perform during code compilation.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CHARCODE System Option
CHARCODE
NOCHARCODE
Specifies whether specific keyboard combinations are substituted for special characters that are not on the keyboard.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CLEANUP System Option
CLEANUP
NOCLEANUP
For an out-of-resource condition, specifies whether to perform an automatic cleanup or a user-specified cleanup.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CMPLIB= System Option
CMPLIB=libref.data-set | (libref.data-set(s) < _DISPLAYLOC_>)
| (libref.data-set-m–libref.data-set-n < _DISPLAYLOC_>)
CMPLIB=_DISPLAYLOC_
CMPLIB=_NO_DISPLAYLOC_
Specifies one or more SAS data sets that contain compiler subroutines to include during program compilation.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CMPMODEL= System Option
CMPMODEL=BOTH | CATALOG | XML
Specifies the output model type for the MODEL procedure.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CMPOPT= System Option
CMPOPT=optimization-value | (optimization-value(s)) | "optimization-value(s)" | ALL | NONE
NOCMPOPT
Specifies the type of code generation optimizations to use in the SAS language compiler.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
COLOPHON= System Option
COLOPHON="text-string"
Specifies a text string that is embedded in a graphic file or a PDF that is created by Universal Printers. The text string is not displayed in the rendered graphic or PDF.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
COLORPRINTING System Option
COLORPRINTING
NOCOLORPRINTING
Specifies whether to print in color if color printing is supported.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
COMPRESS System Option
COMPRESS=NO | CHAR | BINARY
Specifies to compress SPD Engine data sets on disk as they are being created.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
COMPRESS= System Option
COMPRESS=NO | CHAR | BINARY
Specifies the type of compression of observations to use for output SAS data sets.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CPUCOUNT= System Option
CPUCOUNT= 1 - 1024 | ACTUAL
Specifies the number of processors that the thread-enabled applications should assume are available for concurrent processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DATASTMTCHK= System Option
DATASTMTCHK=COREKEYWORDS | ALLKEYWORDS | NONE
Specifies which SAS statement keywords are prohibited from being specified as a one-level DATA step name to protect against overwriting an input data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DATE System Option
DATE
NODATE
Specifies whether to print the date and time that a SAS program started.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DATESTYLE= System Option
DATESTYLE= MDY | YMD | DMY | LOCALE
Specifies the sequence of month, day, and year when ANYDTDTE, ANYDTDTM, or ANYDTTME informat data is ambiguous.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DATESTYLE= System Option
DATESTYLE= MDY | YMD | DMY | LOCALE
Specifies the sequence of month, day, and year when ANYDTDTE, ANYDTDTM, or ANYDTTME informat data is ambiguous.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
DBFMTIGNORE System Option
DBFMTIGNORE
NODBFMTIGNORE
Specifies whether to ignore numeric formats.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
DBIDIRECTEXEC System Option
DBIDIRECTEXEC
NODBIDIRECTEXEC
Lets the SQL pass-through facility optimize handling of SQL statements by passing them directly to the database for execution.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
DBIDIRECTEXEC System Option
DBIDIRECTEXEC | NODBIDIRECTEXEC
Lets the SQL pass-through facility optimize handling of SQL statements by passing them directly to the database for execution.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBSLICEPARM= System Option
DBSLICEPARM=NONE | THREADED_APPS | ALL
DBSLICEPARM=(NONE | THREADED_APPS | ALL < max-threads> )
DBSLICEPARM=(NONE | THREADED_APPS | ALL<, max-threads>)
Controls the scope of DBMS threaded Reads and the number of threads.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
DEBUGOPT= System Option
DEBUGOPT=“<DEBUGHOST=debug-host><, DEBUGPORT=debug-port-number>”
NODEBUGOPT
Specifies the host and port where debugging SAS languages occurs
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DECIMALCONV= System Option
DECIMALCONV=COMPATIBLE | STDIEEE
Specifies the binary to decimal conversion and formatting methodology.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DETAILS System Option
DETAILS
NODETAILS
Specifies whether to include additional information when files are listed in a SAS library.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DEVICE= System Option
DEVICE=device-driver-specification
Specifies the device driver to which SAS/GRAPH sends procedure output.
Product: SAS/GRAPH
Document: SAS/GRAPH: Reference
DFLANG= System Option
DFLANG='language',LOCALE
Specifies the language for international date informats and formats.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
DKRICOND= System Option
DKRICOND=ERROR | WARNING | NOWARNING
Specifies the level of error detection to report when a variable is missing from an input data set during the processing of a DROP=, KEEP=, or RENAME= data set option.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DKROCOND= System Option
DKROCOND=ERROR | WARNING | NOWARNING
Specifies the level of error detection to report when a variable is missing for an output data set during the processing of a DROP=, KEEP=, or RENAME= data set option.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DLCREATEDIR System Option
DLCREATEDIR
NODLCREATEDIR
Specifies to create a directory for the SAS library that is named in a LIBNAME statement if the directory does not exist.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DLDMGACTION= System Option
DLDMGACTION=FAIL | ABORT | REPAIR | NOINDEX | PROMPT
Specifies the type of action to take when a SAS data set or a SAS catalog is detected as damaged.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DQLOCALE= System Option
DQLOCALE=(locale-1 <, locale-2, ...>)
Specifies a locale, or an ordered list of locales
Product: SAS Data Quality Server
Document: SAS Data Quality and SAS Data Quality Server: Language Reference
DQOPTIONS= System Option
DQOPTIONS=(DQSRVPROTOCOL= | <TRANSCODE= | ><IWA= | >)
Specifies SAS session parameters for data quality programs.
Product: SAS Data Quality Server
Document: SAS Data Quality and SAS Data Quality Server: Language Reference
DQSETUPLOC= System Option
DQSETUPLOC=('qkb-name')
Specifies the location of the root directory of the Quality Knowledge Base.
Product: SAS Data Quality Server
Document: SAS Data Quality and SAS Data Quality Server: Language Reference
DS2SCOND= System Option
DS2SCOND=ERROR | NONE | NOTE | WARNING
Specifies the level of messages that PROC DS2 displays in the SAS log for the DS2 variable declaration strict mode, which requires that every variable must be declared in the DS2 program.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS DS2 Language Reference
DSACCEL= System Option
DSACCEL=ANY | NONE
Specifies whether the DATA step is enabled for parallel processing in supported environments.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DSCAS System Option
DSCAS | NODSCAS
Specifies whether the DATA step runs in the CAS server or in SAS by default.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DSNFERR System Option
DSNFERR
NODSNFERR
When a SAS data set cannot be found, specifies whether SAS issues an error message.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DTRESET System Option
DTRESET
NODTRESET
Specifies whether to update the date and time in the SAS log and in the procedure output file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ECHOAUTO System Option
ECHOAUTO
NOECHOAUTO
Specifies whether the statements in the AUTOEXEC= file are written to the SAS log as they are executed.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILACKWAIT= System Option
EMAILACKWAIT=number-of-seconds
Specifies the number of seconds that SAS waits to receive an acknowledgment from an SMTP server.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILAUTHPROTOCOL= System Option
EMAILAUTHPROTOCOL=NONE | LOGIN | PLAIN
Specifies the authentication protocol for SMTP email.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILFROM System Option
EMAILFROM
NOEMAILFROM
When sending email by using SMTP, specifies whether the email option FROM is required in either the FILE or FILENAME statement.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILHOST= System Option
EMAILHOST=server | (server) | "server"
EMAILHOST=('server-1' <options> <'server-2'> <options > ...)
Specifies one or more SMTP servers that support email access.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILID= System Option
EMAILID =logonid | profile | email-address
Identifies an email sender by specifying either a logon ID, an email profile, or an email address.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILPORT System Option
EMAILPORT=port-number
Specifies the port that the SMTP server is attached to.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILPW= System Option
EMAILPW= "password"
Specifies an email logon password.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EMAILUTCOFFSET= System Option
EMAILUTCOFFSET="+hhmm" | "-hhmm"
For email that is sent using the FILENAME statement EMAIL (SMTP) access method, specifies a UTC offset that is used in the Date header field of the email message.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ERRORABEND System Option
ERRORABEND
NOERRORABEND
Specifies whether SAS responds to errors by terminating.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ERRORBYABEND System Option
ERRORBYABEND
NOERRORBYABEND
Specifies whether SAS ends a program when an error occurs in BY-group processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ERRORCHECK= System Option
ERRORCHECK=NORMAL | STRICT
Specifies whether SAS enters syntax-check mode when errors are found in the LIBNAME, FILENAME, %INCLUDE, and LOCK statements.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ERRORS= System Option
ERRORS=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | MIN | MAX | hexX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the maximum number of observations for which SAS issues complete error messages.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EVENTDS= System Option
EVENTDS=(<DEFAULTS | NODEFAULTS> event-data-set(s))
Specifies one or more data sets that define events.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
EXTENDOBSCOUNTER= System Option
EXTENDOBSCOUNTER=YES | NO
Specifies whether to extend the maximum observation count in a new output SAS data file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FILELOCKS System Option
FILELOCKS=(setting path | path setting)
FILELOCKS=NONE | FAIL | CONTINUE | RESET
Specifies whether file locking is turned on or off and what action should be taken if a file cannot be locked.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FIRSTOBS= System Option
FIRSTOBS= n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the row number or external file record that SAS processes first.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
FIRSTOBS= System Option
FIRSTOBS=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the observation number or external file record that SAS processes first.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FMTERR System Option
FMTERR
NOFMTERR
When a variable format cannot be found, specifies whether SAS generates an error or continues processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FMTSEARCH= System Option
FMTSEARCH=(catalog-specification(s))
Specifies the order in which format catalogs are searched.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FONTEMBEDDING System Option
FONTEMBEDDING
NOFONTEMBEDDING
Specifies whether font embedding is enabled in Universal Printer and SAS/GRAPH printing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FORMCHAR= System Option
FORMCHAR= 'formatting-characters'
Specifies the default output formatting characters.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FULLSTIMER System Option
FULLSTIMER
NOFULLSTIMER
Specifies whether to write all available system performance statistics and the datetime stamp to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
GSTYLE System Option
GSTYLE
Specifies that ODS styles are used to generate graphs that are stored as GRSEG catalog entries.
Product: SAS/GRAPH
Document: SAS/GRAPH: Reference
HOSTINFOLONG System Option
HOSTINFOLONG
NOHOSTINFOLONG
Specifies to print additional operating environment information in the SAS log when SAS starts.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
IBUFNO= System Option
IBUFNO=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies an optional number of extra buffers to be allocated for navigating an index file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
IBUFSIZE= System Option
IBUFSIZE=n | nK | hexX | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB syntax notation.
Specifies the buffer size for an index file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
IMLPACKAGEPRIVATE= System Option
IMLPACKAGEPRIVATE=directory-path
Specifies the directory for the private collection of SAS/IML packages.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
IMLPACKAGEPUBLIC= System Option
IMLPACKAGEPUBLIC=directory-path
Specifies the directory for the public collection of SAS/IML packages.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
IMLPACKAGESYSTEM= System Option
IMLPACKAGESYSTEM=directory-path
Specifies the directory for packages that are installed as part of SAS/IML.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
INITSTMT= System Option
INITSTMT='statement'
Specifies a SAS statement to execute after any statements in the AUTOEXEC= file and before any statements from the SYSIN= file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
INSERT= System Option
INSERT=(system-option-1=argument-1 <system-option-2=argument-2 ...>)
Inserts the specified value as the first value of the specified system option.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
INTERVALDS= System Option
INTERVALDS=(interval-1=libref.dataset-name-1 <interval-2=libref.dataset-name-2 ...> )
Specifies one or more interval name-value pairs, where the value is a SAS data set that contains user-defined intervals. The intervals can be used as arguments to the INTNX and INTCK functions.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
INVALIDDATA= System Option
INVALIDDATA='character'
Specifies the value that SAS assigns to a variable when invalid numeric data is encountered.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
JPEGQUALITY= System Option
JPEGQUALITY=n | MIN | MAX
Specifies the JPEG quality factor that determines the ratio of image quality to the level of compression for JPEG files produced by the SAS/GRAPH JPEG device driver.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LABEL System Option
LABEL
NOLABEL
Specifies whether SAS procedures can use labels with variables.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
_LAST_= System Option
_LAST_=SAS-data-set
Specifies the most recently created data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LEFTMARGIN= System Option
LEFTMARGIN=margin-size<margin-unit>
Specifies the print margin for the left side of the page.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LINESIZE= System Option
LINESIZE=n | MIN | MAX | hexX
Specifies the line size for the SAS log and for SAS procedure output.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LOCALE System Option
LOCALE=locale-name
Specifies a set of attributes in a SAS session that reflect the language, local conventions, and culture for a geographical region.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
LOGAPPLNAME= System Option
LOGAPPLNAME=name
Specifies a SAS session name for SAS logging.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Logging: Configuration and Programming Reference
LOGCONFIGLOC= System Option
Production Syntax
LOGCONFIGLOC=file-specification
Basic Logging Configuration Syntax
LOGCONFIGLOC=basic:level, FileAppender, path-and-filename-pattern
LOGCONFIGLOC=basic:level, ConsoleAppender
LOGCONFIGLOC=basic:level
Specifies the name of the XML configuration file or a basic logging configuration that is used to initialize the SAS logging facility.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Logging: Configuration and Programming Reference
LPTYPE System Option
LPTYPE=BSD | SYSV
Specifies which Linux command and option settings are used to route files to the printer.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LRECL= System Option
LRECL=n | nK | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB syntax notation.
Specifies the default logical record length to use for reading and writing external files.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MAPS System Option
MAPS=location-of-maps
Specifies the name of the SAS library containing the SAS/GRAPH map data sets.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MAXMEMQUERY System Option
MAXMEMQUERY=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated per request for certain procedures.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MAXSEGRATIO System Option
MAXSEGRATIO=n
Controls what percentage of index segments to identify as candidate segments before processing the WHERE expression. This occurs when evaluating a WHERE expression that contains indexed variables.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
MERGENOBY System Option
MERGENOBY= NOWARN | WARN | ERROR
Specifies the type of message that is issued when MERGE processing occurs without an associated BY statement.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MISSING= System Option
MISSING=<'>character<'>
Specifies the character to print for missing numeric values.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MSGLEVEL= System Option
MSGLEVEL=N | I
Specifies the level of detail in messages that are written to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MSYMTABMAX System Option
MSYMTABMAX=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the maximum amount of memory available to the macro variable symbol tables.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MULTENVAPPL System Option
MULTENVAPPL
NOMULTENVAPPL
Specifies whether the fonts that are available in a SAS application font selector window lists only the SAS fonts that are available in all operating environments.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MVARSIZE System Option
MVARSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the maximum size for in-memory macro variables.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
NLDECSEPARATOR System Option
NLDECSEPARATOR
NONLDECSEPARATOR
Specifies whether SAS produces locale sensitive numeric output for the decimal separator or continues to format numbers with US English preferences.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
NOTES System Option
NOTES
NONOTES
Specifies whether notes are written to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
NUMBER System Option
NUMBER
NONUMBER
Specifies whether to print the page number in the title line of each page of SAS output.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
OBS= System Option
OBS= n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the last record to process.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
OBS= System Option
OBS=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the observation that is used to determine the last observation to process, or specifies the last record to process.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ORIENTATION= System Option
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT | LANDSCAPE | REVERSEPORTRAIT | REVERSELANDSCAPE
Specifies the paper orientation to use when printing to a printer.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
OVP System Option
OVP
NOOVP
Specifies whether overprinting of error messages to make them bold, is enabled.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PAGEBREAKINITIAL System Option
PAGEBREAKINITIAL
NOPAGEBREAKINITIAL
Specifies whether to begin the SAS log and procedure output files on a new page.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PAGENO= System Option
PAGENO=n | nK | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB syntax notation.
Resets the SAS output page number.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PAGESIZE= System Option
PAGESIZE=n | nK | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB syntax notation.
Specifies the number of lines that compose a page of the SAS log and SAS output.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PAPERSIZE= System Option
PAPERSIZE=LOCALE | paper_size_name
| (width_value <,> height_value)
| ('width_value'<,> 'height_value')
| ("width_value"<,>"height_value")
Specifies the paper size to use for printing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PARM= System Option
PARM=<'>string<'>
Specifies a parameter string that is passed to an external program.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PARMCARDS= System Option
PARMCARDS=file-ref
Specifies the file reference to open when SAS encounters the PARMCARDS statement in a procedure.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFACCESS System Option
PDFACCESS
NOPDFACCESS
Specifies whether PDF documents can be edited.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFASSEMBLY System Option
PDFASSEMBLY
NOPDFASSEMBLY
Specifies whether PDF documents can be assembled.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFCOMMENT System Option
PDFCOMMENT
NOPDFCOMMENT
Specifies whether PDF document comments can be modified.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFCONTENT System Option
PDFCONTENT
NOPDFCONTENT
Specifies whether the contents of a PDF document can be changed.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFCOPY System Option
PDFCOPY
NOPDFCOPY
Specifies whether text and graphics from a PDF document can be copied.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFFILLIN System Option
PDFFILLIN
NOPDFFILLIN
Specifies whether PDF forms can be filled in.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFPAGELAYOUT= System Option
PDFPAGELAYOUT= DEFAULT | SINGLEPAGE | CONTINUOUS
| FACING | CONTINUOUSFACING
Specifies the page layout for PDF documents.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFPAGEVIEW= System Option
PDFPAGEVIEW= DEFAULT | ACTUAL | FITPAGE | FITWIDTH | FULLSCREEN
Specifies the page viewing mode for PDF documents.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFPRINT= System Option
PDFPRINT=HRES | LRES | NONE
Specifies the resolution to print PDF documents.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFSECURITY= System Option
PDFSECURITY=HIGH | NONE
Specifies the level of encryption for PDF documents.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PRINTCMD System Option
PRINTCMD="print-command"
Specifies the print command that SAS uses.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PRINTERPATH= System Option
PRINTERPATH=('printer-name' <fileref> )
Specifies the name of a registered printer to use for Universal Printing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PRINTMSGLIST System Option
PRINTMSGLIST
NOPRINTMSGLIST
Specifies whether to print all messages to the SAS log or to print only top-level messages to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
QUOTELENMAX System Option
QUOTELENMAX
NOQUOTELENMAX
If a quoted string exceeds the maximum length allowed, specifies whether SAS writes a note to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
REPLACE System Option
REPLACE
NOREPLACE
Specifies whether permanently stored SAS data sets can be replaced.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
REUSE= System Option
REUSE=YES | NO
Specifies whether SAS reuses space when observations are added to a compressed SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RIGHTMARGIN= System Option
RIGHTMARGIN=margin-size<margin-unit>
Specifies the print margin for the right side of the page.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RSASIOTRANSERROR System Option
RSASIOTRANSERROR
NORSASIOTRANSERROR
Displays a transcoding error when invalid data is read from a remote application.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
RTRACELOC System Option
RTRACELOC=pathname
Specifies the pathname of the file to which the list of resources that are read or loaded during a SAS session is written.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
S2= System Option
S2=S | n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the length of statements on each line of a source statement from a %INCLUDE statement, an AUTOEXEC= file, or an autocall macro file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
S2V= System Option
S2V=S2 | S | n | nK | nM | nG | nT | MIN | MAX | hexX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the starting position to begin reading a file that is specified in a %INCLUDE statement, an autoexec file, or an autocall macro file with a variable length record format.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
S= System Option
S=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the length of statements on each line of a source statement and the length of data on lines that follow a DATALINES statement.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SASAUTOS System Option
SASAUTOS='directory-specification' | fileref
SASAUTOS =('directory-specification-1' | fileref-1, ..., 'directory-specification-n' | fileref-n)
NOSASAUTOS
Specifies the autocall library.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SASTRACE= System Option
SASTRACE=',,,d' | ',,d,' | 'd,' | 'd,,,' | ',,,db' | ',,,s' | ',,,sa' | ',,t,' | OFF
Generates trace information from a DBMS engine.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
SASTRACE= System Option
SASTRACE=',,,d'| | ' ,,d,' | ' d,' | s'| | sa'
Generates trace information about a data source.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
SASTRACELOC= System Option
SASTRACELOC=stdout | SASLOG | FILE 'path-and-file-name'
Specifies the location where SASTRACE= information should be printed.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
SASTRACELOC= System Option
SASTRACELOC= stdout | SASLOG | FILE 'path-and-filename'
Writes trace information to a specified location.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
SEQ= System Option
SEQ=n | MIN | MAX | hexX
Specifies the length of the numeric portion of the sequence field in input source lines or data lines.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SESSREF= System Option
SESSREF= session-name
Specifies the name of the default CAS session to use if a statement or procedure does not explicitly identify a session reference name.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SET System Option
SET=variable-name='value'
Defines a SAS environment variable for a SAS Session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTANOM System Option
SORTANOM=options
Specifies options for the host sort utility.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTCUT System Option
SORTCUT=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the data size in number of observations above which SAS uses the host sort instead of the internal SAS sort.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTCUTP System Option
SORTCUTP=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the data size in bytes above which SAS uses the host sort instead of the internal SAS sort.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTDEV System Option
SORTDEV='directory-specification'
Specifies the pathname used for temporary files created by the host sort utility.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTEQUALS System Option
SORTEQUALS
NOSORTEQUALS
Specifies whether observations in the output data set with identical BY variable values are in a particular order.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTNAME System Option
SORTNAME='host-sort-utility-name'
Specifies the name of the host sort utility.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTPARM System Option
SORTPARM='parameter(s)'
Specifies parameters for the host sort utility.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTPGM System Option
SORTPGM=SAS | HOST | BEST
Specifies whether to use the internal SAS sort utility or the host sort utility or to let SAS choose which sort utility to use.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTSEQ= System Option
SORTSEQ=<sort-table> | <LINGUISTIC>
Specifies a language-specific collating sequence for the SORT and SQL procedures to use in the current SAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
SORTSIZE= System Option
SORTSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the amount of memory that is available to the SORT procedure.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SORTVALIDATE System Option
SORTVALIDATE
NOSORTVALIDATE
Specifies whether the SORT procedure verifies if a data set is sorted according to the variables in the BY statement when a user-specified sort order is denoted in the sort indicator.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SOUNDSLIKELEN System Option
SOUNDSLIKELEN=n | nK | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the number of bytes used by the sounds-like operator.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SOURCE System Option
SOURCE
NOSOURCE
Specifies whether SAS writes source statements to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SOURCE2 System Option
SOURCE2
NOSOURCE2
Specifies whether SAS writes secondary source statements from included files to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SPDEINDEXSORTSIZE System Option
SPDEINDEXSORTSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG
Specifies the memory space size that the sorting utility can use when sorting values for creating an index.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
SPDEPARALLELREAD= System Option
SPDEPARALLELREAD=NO | YES
Determines when the SPD Engine uses parallel processing to read data stored in HDFS.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
SPDESORTSIZE System Option
SPDESORTSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG
Specifies the memory space size that is needed for sorting operations used by the SPD Engine.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
SPDEWHEVAL System Option
SPDEWHEVAL=COST | EVAL1 | EVAL3EVAL4
Specifies the process to determine which observations meet the condition or conditions of a WHERE expression.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
SPOOL System Option
SPOOL
NOSPOOL
Specifies whether SAS statements are written to a utility data set in the Work library.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SQL_PUSHTCINTOVIEW_FROM_OUTSIDE System Option
SQL_PUSHTCINTOVIEW_FROM_OUTSIDE = YES | Y | NO | N ;
Specifies that a truncated comparison operator (=:) in a WHERE clause returns all of the values in a view that begin with the specified value.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLCONSTDATETIME System Option
SQLCONSTDATETIME | NOSQLCONSTDATETIME
Specifies whether the SQL procedure replaces references to the DATE, TIME, DATETIME, and TODAY functions in a query with their equivalent constant values before the query executes.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLGENERATION= System Option
SQLGENERATION=<(>NONE | DBMS
<DBMS='engine1 <engine2 ...>'>
<EXCLUDEDB=engine | 'engine1 < engine2 ...>'>
<EXCLUDEPROC="engine='proc1 <proc2 ...>' <engine2='proc1 <proc2 ...>'>"> <)>
SQLGENERATION=' '
Specifies whether and when SAS procedures generate SQL for in-database processing of source data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
SQLGENERATION= System Option
SQLGENERATION=<(>NONE | DBMS
<DBMS='engine1 <engine2 ...>'>
<EXCLUDEDB=engine | 'engine1 < engine2 ...>'>
<EXCLUDEPROC="engine='proc1 <proc2 ...>' <engine2='proc1 <proc2 ...>'>"> <)>
SQLGENERATION=' '
Specifies whether and when SAS procedures generate SQL for in-database processing of source data.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLIPONEATTEMPT System Option
SQLIPONEATTEMPT | NOSQLIPONEATTEMPT
Specifies whether PROC SQL allows an SQL query to continue processing when an implicit pass-through request fails.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLMAPPUTTO= System Option
SQLMAPPUTTO=NONE | SAS_PUT | (database.SAS_PUT)
Specifies whether the PUT function is mapped to the SAS_PUT function for a database. Use this system option to specify an alternative database in which the SAS_PUT function is published.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
SQLMAPPUTTO= System Option
SQLMAPPUTTO=NONE | SAS_PUT | (database.SAS_PUT)
Specifies whether the PUT function is mapped to the SAS_PUT function for a database. Use this system option to specify an alternative database in which the SAS_PUT function is published.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLREDUCEPUT= System Option
SQLREDUCEPUT= ALL | NONE | DBMS | BASE
For the SQL procedure, specifies the engine type to use to optimize a PUT function in a query. The PUT function is replaced with a logically equivalent expression.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLREDUCEPUTOBS= System Option
SQLREDUCEPUTOBS= n
For the SQL procedure, when the SQLREDUCEPUT= system option is set to DBMS, BASE, or ALL, specifies the minimum number of observations that must be in a table for PROC SQL to optimize the PUT function in a query.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLREDUCEPUTVALUES= System Option
SQLREDUCEPUTVALUES= n
For the SQL procedure, when the SQLREDUCEPUT= system option is set to DBMS, BASE, or ALL, specifies the maximum number of SAS format values that can exist in a PUT function expression for PROC SQL to optimize the PUT function in a query.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLREMERGE System Option
SQLREMERGE | NOSQLREMERGE
Specifies whether PROC SQL can process queries that use remerged data.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
SQLUNDOPOLICY= System Option
SQLUNDOPOLICY=NONE | OPTIONAL | REQUIRED
Specifies how PROC SQL handles updated data if errors occur while you are updating data. You can use UNDO_POLICY= to control whether your changes become permanent.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
SQLUNDOPOLICY= System Option
SQLUNDOPOLICY=NONE | OPTIONAL | REQUIRED
Specifies how PROC SQL handles updated data if errors occur while you are updating data. You can use UNDO_POLICY= to control whether your changes are permanent.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SQL Procedure User’s Guide
STIMEFMT System Option
STIMEFMT=value
Specifies the format that is used to display the time on FULLSTIMER and STIMER output.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STIMER System Option
STIMER
NOSTIMER
Specifies whether to write a subset of system performance statistics to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STRIPESIZE= System Option
STRIPESIZE=(directory-path-1 size-1 <directory-path-2 size-2 ...>)
STRIPESIZE=(directory-path RESET)
Specifies one or more directory and size argument pairs that set the size of SAS data sets and utility files in that directory to the size of an I/O device stripe.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SUMSIZE= System Option
SUMSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies a limit on the amount of memory that is available for data summarization procedures when class variables are active.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGAUTOPLAY System Option
SVGAUTOPLAY
NOSVGAUTOPLAY
Specifies to automatically start the animation in the web browser.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGCONTROLBUTTONS System Option
SVGCONTROLBUTTONS
NOSVGCONTROLBUTTONS
Specifies whether to display the paging control buttons and an index in a multipage SVG document.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGFADEIN= System Option
SVGFADEIN=n
Specifies the number of seconds for an SVG frame to fade into view.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGFADEMODE= System Option
SVGFADEMODE=OVERLAP | SEQUENTIAL
Specifies whether an SVG frame overlaps the previous frame or whether each frame is played sequentially when a frame is fading in and out.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGFADEOUT= System Option
SVGFADEOUT=n
Specifies the number of seconds for an SVG frame to fade out of view.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGHEIGHT= System Option
SVGHEIGHT=number-of-units<unit-of-measure> | "" | ''
Specifies the height of the viewport unless the SVG output is embedded in another SVG output; specifies the value of the height attribute of the outermost <svg> element in the SVG file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGMAGNIFYBUTTON System Option
SVGMAGNIFYBUTTON
NOSVGMAGNIFYBUTTON
Specifies whether to enable the SVG magnify tool in SVG documents.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGPRESERVEASPECTRATIO= System Option
SVGPRESERVEASPECTRATIO=align | meetOrSlice | NONE | ""
SVGPRESERVEASPECTRATIO="align meetOrSlice"
Specifies whether to force uniform scaling of SVG output; specifies the preserveAspectRatio attribute on the outermost <svg> element.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGTITLE= System Option
SVGTITLE="title" | "" | ''
Specifies the title in the title bar of the SVG output; specifies the value of the <title> element in the SVG file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGVIEWBOX= System Option
SVGVIEWBOX="min-x min-y width height'' | none | "" | ''
Specifies the coordinates, width, and height that are used to set the viewBox attribute on the outermost <svg> element, which enables SVG output to scale to the viewport.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGWIDTH= System Option
SVGWIDTH=number-of-units<unit-of-measure> | "" | ''
Specifies the width of the viewport unless the SVG output is embedded in another SVG output; specifies the value of the width attribute in the outermost <svg> element in the SVG file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGX= System Option
SVGX=number-of-units<unit-of-measure> | "" | ''
Specifies the x-axis coordinate of one corner of the rectangular region into which an embedded <svg> element is placed; specifies the x attribute in the outermost <svg> element in an SVG file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SVGY= System Option
SVGY=number-of-units<unit-of-measure> | "" | ''
Specifies the y-axis coordinate of one corner of the rectangular region into which an embedded <svg> element is placed; specifies the y attribute in the outermost <svg> element in an SVG file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SYNTAXCHECK System Option
SYNTAXCHECK
NOSYNTAXCHECK
In non-interactive or batch SAS sessions, specifies whether to enable syntax check mode for multiple steps.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TEXTURELOC= System Option
TEXTURELOC=location
Specifies the location of textures and images that are used by ODS styles.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
THREADS System Option
THREADS
NOTHREADS
Specifies that SAS uses threaded processing if available.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TIMEZONE= System Option
TIMEZONE='time-zone-name' | 'time-zone-ID'
Specifies the user local time zone.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TIMEZONE= System Option
TIMEZONE='time-zone-name' | 'time-zone-ID'
Specifies the user local time zone.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
TOPMARGIN= System Option
TOPMARGIN=margin-size<margin-unit>
Specifies the print margin at the top of the page.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TRANTAB= System Option
TRANTAB=(catalog-entries)
Specifies the translation tables that are used by various parts of SAS.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
UBUFNO= System Option
UBUFNO=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, and GB notations.
Specifies the number of buffers to use for utility files.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
UBUFSIZE= System Option
UBUFSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the buffer size for utility files.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
UPRINTCOMPRESSION System Option
UPRINTCOMPRESSION
NOUPRINTCOMPRESSION
Specifies whether to enable the compression of files created by some Universal Printer and SAS/GRAPH devices.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
URLENCODING= System Option
URLENCODING=SESSION | UTF8
Specifies whether the argument to the URLENCODE function and to the URLDECODE function is interpreted using the SAS session encoding or UTF-8 encoding.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
URLENCODING= System Option
URLENCODING=SESSION | UTF8
Specifies whether the argument to the URLENCODE function and to the URLDECODE function is interpreted using the SAS session encoding or UTF-8 encoding.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
USER= System Option
USER='pathname' | libref
Specifies the default permanent SAS library.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
UUIDCOUNT= System Option
UUIDCOUNT=n | MIN | MAX
Specifies the number of UUIDs to acquire from the UUID Generator Daemon.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VALIDFMTNAME= System Option
VALIDFMTNAME=LONG | FAIL | WARN
Specifies the maximum size (32 characters or 8 characters) that user-created format and informat names can be before an error or warning is issued.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VALIDMEMNAME= System Option
VALIDMEMNAME=COMPATIBLE | EXTEND
Specifies the rules for naming SAS data sets, SAS data views, and item stores.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VALIDMEMNAME= System Option
VALIDMEMNAME=COMPATIBLE | EXTEND
Specifies the rules for naming SAS data sets, SAS data views, and item stores.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
VALIDVARNAME= System Option
VALIDVARNAME=V6 | V7 | UPCASE | ANY
Controls the type of SAS variable names that can be used or created during a SAS session.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
VALIDVARNAME= System Option
VALIDVARNAME=V7 | UPCASE | ANY
Specifies the rules for valid SAS column names that can be created and processed during a SAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
VALIDVARNAME= System Option
VALIDVARNAME=V7 | UPCASE | ANY
Specifies the rules for valid SAS variable names that can be created and processed during a SAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VALIDVARNAME= System Option
VALIDVARNAME=V7 | UPCASE | ANY
Specifies the rules for valid SAS variable names that can be created and processed during a SAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
VARINITCHK= System Option
VARINITCHK=NONOTE | NOTE | WARN | ERROR
Specifies whether a DATA step stops or continues executing when a variable is not initialized and the type of message to write to the SAS log.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VARLENCHK= System Option
VARLENCHK=NOWARN | WARN | ERROR
Specifies the type of message to write to the SAS log when the input data set is read using the SET, MERGE, UPDATE, or MODIFY statements.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VBUFSIZE= System Option
VBUFSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Note: You can also use the KB, MB, GB, and TB syntax notations.
Specifies the size of the view buffer.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VNFERR System Option
VNFERR | NOVNFERR
Specifies whether SAS issues an error or warning when a BY variable exists in one data set but not another data set when the other data set is _NULL_. This option applies when processing the SET, MERGE, UPDATE, or MODIFY statements.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
WORKTERM System Option
WORKTERM
NOWORKTERM
Specifies whether to erase the Work files when SAS terminates.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
XCMD System Option
XCMD
NOXCMD
Specifies whether the X command is valid in the SAS session.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
YEARCUTOFF= System Option
YEARCUTOFF=nnnn | nnnnn
Specifies the first year of a 100-year span that is used by date informats and functions to read a two-digit year.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS System Options: Reference
Last updated: May 19, 2022