Data Set Options Listed by Product

Base SAS

A B C D E F G I K L M N O P Q R S T U W

Name
Syntax and Description
ACCELWHERE=NO | YES
Determines whether WHERE processing is optimized by data subsetting being performed in the Hadoop cluster.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
ACL=(column-name-1=(user-name-1... user-name-n)... column-name-n=(user-name-1... user-name-n))
Creates an Access Control List (ACL) for Read access to one or more columns in a new output table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
ADDROWID=<YES | NO>
Adds a column to the output data set with the name "_ROWID_" that increments in numeric value with each row.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ALIGN=YES | NO
specifies variable alignment.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
ALTER=alter-password
Assigns an ALTER password to a SAS data set that prevents users from replacing or deleting the file, and enables access to a Read- and Write-protected file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
ALTER=alter-password
Assigns an ALTER= password to a SAS file that prevents users from replacing or deleting the file, and enables access to a read- and write-protected file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
APPEND=YES | NO | FORCE
Specifies whether to append rows from a DATA step or a PROC step output to an in-memory table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ASYNCINDEX=YES | NO
Specifies to create indexes in parallel when creating multiple indexes on an SPD Engine data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
BINARY_BYTE_LIMIT=n
Specifies the maximum length for binary columns that do not have a defined length.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
BL_LOAD_REPLACE= NO | YES
Specifies whether DB2 appends or replaces rows during bulk loading.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BL_LOG= path-and-log-filename
Identifies a log file that will contain information such as statistics and error information for a bulk load.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BL_OPTIONS= 'option<, option ...>'
Passes options to the DB2 bulk-load facility, affecting how it loads and processes data.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BUFNO=n | nK | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BUFNO= n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
BUFSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MAX
Specifies the size of a permanent buffer page for an output SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BUFSIZE=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MAX
Specifies the size of a permanent buffer page for an output SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
BULKLOAD=YES | NO
Loads rows of data as one unit.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BULKOPTS=(option=value <option1=value ... >)
Container option for BL_LOAD_REPLACE=, BL_LOG=, and BL_OPTIONS= data set options.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
BYNOEQUALS=YES | NO
Specifies whether the output order of data set observations that have identical values for the BY variable is guaranteed to be in the data set order.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
BYSORT=YES | NO
Specifies the SPD Engine to perform an automatic sort when it encounters a BY statement.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
CASLIB=caslib-reference-name
Specifies the name of the caslib to use for engine operations for the table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
CHAR_COLUMN_LIMIT=n
Specifies the maximum length for character columns that do not have a defined length.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
CNTLLEV=LIB | MEM | REC
Specifies the level of shared access to a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
COLUMN_COMPRESS=(column-name-1=compression-type-1...column-name-n=compression-type-n)
Controls the compression for one or more columns in a new output table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
COMPRESS= NO | YES | CHAR | BINARY
Specifies the compression of rows in an output table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
COMPRESS=NO | BROTLI | GZIP | LZ4 | LZ4_HADP | SNAPPY | YES | ZLIB | ZSTD
Controls the compression for a new output table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
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=NO | YES | BINARY
COMPRESS=NO | YES
Specifies whether observations are compressed or the compression method to use for an output data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
COPIES=integer
Specifies the number of copies for a redundant table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
DATA_BLOCK_SIZE=n | nK | nM | nG
Requests a stripe size for an ORC table during creation (output).
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
DATALIMIT=integer | integerK | integerM | integerG | ALL
Specifies the maximum number of bytes of data that can be transferred between the CAS server and SAS during a single-table read.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
DBCOMMIT=unsigned-integer
Causes an automatic Commit (a permanent writing of data to the DBMS) after a specified number of rows have been processed.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBCONDITION="DBMS-SQL-query-clause"
Specifies criteria for subsetting and ordering DBMS data.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBFORCE= YES | NO
Specifies whether to force the truncation of data during insert processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBGEN_NAME= DBMS | SAS
Specifies how SAS renames columns when they contain characters that SAS does not allow.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBINDEX= YES | NO | <'>index-name<'>
Detects and verifies that indexes exist on a DBMS table. If they do exist and are of the correct type, a join query that is passed to the DBMS might improve performance.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBKEY=(<'>column1<'> <<'> column2<'> ... > )
Specifies a key column to optimize DBMS retrieval. Can improve performance when you are processing a join that involves a large DBMS table and a small SAS data set or DBMS table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBLABEL= YES | NO
Specifies whether to use SAS column labels or SAS column names as the DBMS column names during output processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBMASTER=YES
Designates which table is the larger table when you are processing a join that involves tables from two different types of databases.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBNULL=<_ALL_=YES | NO>
| ( <column-name-1=YES | NO > <<column-name-2=YES | NO> ...> )
When a table is created, this option indicates whether a null is a valid value for the specified columns.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBNULLKEYS=YES | NO
Controls the format of the WHERE clause with regard to null values when you use the DBKEY= data set option.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBSASLABEL= COMPAT | NONE
Specifies how the table driver returns column labels.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBSASTYPE= (column-name-1=<'> SAS-data-type<'> <…column-name-n=<'> SAS-data-type<'> > )
Specifies data types to override the default SAS data types during input processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBTYPE=(column-name-1=<'> DBMS-type<'>
<…column-name-n=<'> DBMS-type<'> > )
Specifies a data type to use instead of the default DBMS data type when SAS creates a DBMS table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DBTYPE=(column-name-1=column-type-1<...column-name-n=column-type-n>)
Specifies a data type to use instead of the default data type when SAS creates a table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
DLDMGACTION=FAIL | ABORT | REPAIR | NOINDEX
Specifies the action to take when a SAS data set in a SAS library is detected as damaged.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
DROP=column(s)
For an input data set, excludes the specified columns from processing; for an output data set, excludes the specified columns from being written to the data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
DROP=variable(s)
For an input data set, excludes the specified variables from processing; for an output data set, excludes the specified variables from being written to the data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
DUPLICATE=YES | NO
Specifies whether the output table in SAS Cloud Analytic Services is duplicated on all nodes.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ENCODING= ANY | ASCIIANY | EBCDICANY | SESSION | encoding-value
Overrides the encoding to use for reading or writing a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
ENCRYPT=YES | NO
Specifies whether to encrypt an output table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
ENCRYPT= AES | NO | YES
Specifies whether to encrypt an output SPD Engine data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
ENCRYPT=AES | AES2 | NO | YES
Specifies whether to encrypt an output SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ENCRYPTKEY="key-value"
Specifies a key value for AES encryption.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
ENCRYPTKEY=key-value
Specifies a key value for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ENDOBS=n
Specifies the end observation number in a user-defined range of observations to be processed.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
EXTENDOBSCOUNTER=YES | NO
Specifies whether to extend the maximum observation count in a new output SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
FILECLOSE=DISP | LEAVE | REREAD | REWIND
Specifies how a tape is positioned when a SAS data set is closed.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
FIRSTOBS= n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the first row in a data source that SAS processes.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
FIRSTOBS=n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the first observation that SAS processes in a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
GENMAX=number-of-generations
Requests generations for a new data set, modifies the number of generations for an existing data set, and specifies the maximum number of versions.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
GENNUM=integer
Specifies a particular generation of a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
IDXBY=YES | NO
Specifies whether to use an index when processing a BY statement in the SPD Engine.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
IDXNAME=index-name
Directs SAS to use a specific index to match the conditions of a WHERE expression.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
IDXNAME=index-name
Directs SAS to use a specific index to match the conditions of a WHERE expression.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
IDXWHERE=YES | NO
Specifies whether SAS uses an index search or a sequential search to match the conditions of a WHERE expression.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
IDXWHERE=YES | NO
Specifies whether to use an index when processing a WHERE expression in the SPD Engine.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
IDXWHERE=YES | NO
Specifies whether SAS uses an index search or a sequential search to match the conditions of a WHERE expression.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
IGNORE_READ_ONLY_COLUMNS=YES | NO
Specifies whether to ignore or include columns that are Read-only and that have unique values when generating a SQL statement for inserts or updates.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
IN=variable
Creates a Boolean variable that indicates whether the data set contributed data to the current observation.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
INDEX=(index-specification <index-specification-2 ...> )
Defines an index for a new output SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
INSERT_SQL=YES | NO
Determines the method that is used to insert rows into a data source.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
INSERTBUFF=positive-integer
Specifies the number of rows in a single Insert operation.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
IOBLOCKSIZE=n
Specifies the size in bytes of a block of observations to be used in an I/O operation.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
IOBLOCKSIZE=n
Specifies a size in bytes of a block of observations to be used in an I/O operation.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
KEEP=column(s)
For an input data set, specifies the columns to process; for an output data set, specifies the columns to write to the data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
KEEP=variable(s)
For an input data set, specifies the variables to process; for an output data set, specifies the variables to write to the data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
LABEL='label'
Specifies a label for a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
LABEL='label'
Specifies a label for a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
LISTFILES=YES | NO
Specifies whether the CONTENTS procedure lists the complete pathnames of all of the component files of an SPD Engine data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
MAXTABLEMEM=integer | integerK | integerM | integerG
Specifies the maximum amount of memory in bytes that each thread should allocate for in-memory blocks before converting to a memory-mapped file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
NCHARMULTIPLIER=n
Specifies a multiplication factor that is used to increase the number of bytes for a fixed character variable when data is transcoded to the UTF-8 encoding in order to run in the CAS server.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
NULLCHAR= SAS | YES | NO
Indicates how missing character values are handled during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
NULLCHARVAL='character-string'
Defines the character string that replaces missing character values during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
OBS= n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the last row in a data source that SAS processes.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
OBS= n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MIN | MAX
Specifies the last observation that SAS processes in a data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
OBSBUF=n
Determines the size of the view buffer for processing a DATA step view.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ONDEMAND=YES | NO
Specifies how to evaluate temporary computed columns.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ORDERBY=(<DESCENDING> variable-name-1 <,<DESCENDING> variable-name-2 ...>)
Orders data hierarchically within a partition according to the specified variables.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
OUTREP=SESSION | format
Specifies the data representation for the output SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
OUTREP= format
Specifies the data representation for the output SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
PADCOMPRESS=n
Specifies the number of bytes to add to compressed blocks in a data set opened for OUTPUT or UPDATE.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
PARALLELREAD=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
PARALLELWRITE=NO | YES | threads
Determines whether the SPD Engine uses parallel processing to write data in HDFS.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
PARTITION=(variable-list) | ( )
Partitions the output table according to the formatted values of the specified variables.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
PARTITION_BY=(column-name-1<...column-name-n>)
Specifies one or more columns that determine a table's partitions.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
PARTITION_TYPE=DIRECTORY | FILENAME | HIVE
Specifies the type of partitioning for a table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
PARTSIZE=n | nM | nG | nT
Specifies the maximum size (in megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes) that the data component partitions can be. The value is specified when an SPD Engine data set is created. This size is a fixed size. This specification applies only to the data component files.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
PARTSIZE=n | nM | nG | nT
Specifies a size for the SPD Engine data partition file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
POINTOBS=YES | NO
Specifies whether SAS creates compressed data sets whose observations can be randomly accessed or sequentially accessed.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
PRESERVE_COL_NAMES=NO | YES
Preserves spaces, special characters, and case sensitivity in column names when you create tables.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
PROMOTE=YES | NO
Requests that a CAS table is added with global scope.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
PW=password
Assigns a READ, WRITE, and ALTER password to a SAS data set and enables access to a password-protected file.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
PW=password
Assigns a READ, WRITE, and ALTER password to a SAS data set, and enables access to a password-protected SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
PWD=password
Specifies the user's password for Access Control Lists (ACLs) in Parquet files.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
PWREQ=YES | NO
Specifies whether to display a password window.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
QUALIFIER=qualifier-name
Identifies database objects, such as tables, by using a qualifier.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
READ=read-password
Assigns a READ password to a SAS data set that prevents users from reading the file, unless they enter the password.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
READ=read-password
Assigns a READ= password to a SAS file that prevents users from reading the file, unless they enter the password.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
READ_ISOLATION_LEVEL=DBMS-specific-value
Specifies which level of Read isolation locking to use when you are reading data.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
READ_LOCK_TYPE=ROW | PAGE | TABLE | NOLOCK | VIEW
Specifies how data in a DBMS table is locked during a Read transaction.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
READBUFF=integer
Specifies the number of rows of data to read into the buffer for an individual data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
READTRANSFERSIZE=integer | integerK | integerM | integerG
Specifies the maximum number of bytes that the CAS engine reads when transferring data from the CAS server.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
RENAME=(old-name-1=new-name-1< ...old-name-n=new-name-n> )
Changes the name of a column.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
RENAME=(old-variable-name-1=new-variable-name-1 <old-variable-name-2=new-variable-name-2 ...> )
Changes the name of a variable.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
REPEMPTY=YES | NO
Specifies whether a new, empty data set can overwrite an existing SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
REPLACE=NO | YES
Specifies whether a new SAS data set that contains data can overwrite an existing data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
REUSE=NO | YES
Specifies whether new observations can be written to available space in compressed SAS data sets.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
ROLE=FACT | DIMENSION
Identifies the fact table for a star schema join.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
SAS_CHAR_COLUMN_DEFAULT=STRING
Specifies that all SAS character columns be written as logical type STRING .
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
SASDATEFMT=(DBMS-date-col-1='SAS-date-format'
<… DBMS-date-col-n='SAS-date-format'> )
Changes the SAS date format of a DBMS column.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
SCHEMA=schema-name
Enables you to read database objects, such as tables, in the specified DBMS schema.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
SCRIPT=fileref
Specifies the file reference for the SAS script that defines the temporary computed columns.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
SORTEDBY=by-clause </ collate-name> | _NULL_
Specifies how a data set is currently sorted.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
SPILL=YES | NO
Specifies whether to create a spill file for non-sequential processing of a DATA step view.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
STARTOBS=n
Specifies the starting observation number in a user-defined range of observations to be processed.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
SYNCADD=YES | NO
Specifies to process one observation at a time or multiple observations at a time when adding observations.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
TAG=tag-name
Specifies a multi-level prefix for a CAS table that is used to identify the table to both the CAS server and SAS.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
TEMPNAMES=variable-list
Adds temporary computed column names to the input table.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
THREADNUM=n
Specifies the maximum number of I/O threads the SPD Engine can spawn for processing an SPD Engine data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
TIMEOUTSECONDS=n
Specifies the client inactivity time-out interval in seconds. If SAS stops transferring data to the server, the server starts the inactivity timer for the specified duration and cancels the request if SAS does not resume data transfer.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
TOBSNO=n
Specifies the number of observations to send in a client-server transfer.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
TRANSCODE_FAIL=ERROR | WARN | SILENT
Specifies how the engine handles transcoding errors.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
TYPE=data-set-type
Specifies the data set type for a specially structured data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
TYPE=data-set-type
Specifies the data set type for a specially structured SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
UNIQUESAVE=YES | NO
Specifies to save observations with nonunique key values (the rejected observations) to a separate data set when adding observations to data sets with unique indexes.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
UPDATE_ISOLATION_LEVEL=DBMS-specific-value
Specifies the degree of isolation of the current application process from other concurrently running application processes.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
UPDATE_LOCK_TYPE=ROW | PAGE | TABLE | NOLOCK | VIEW
Specifies how data is locked during an update transaction.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
USEDIRECTIO=YES | NO
Turns on direct file I/O for a library that contains the file to which the ENABLEDIRECTIO option has been applied.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
USER=name
Specifies a user's name for Access Control Lists (ACLs) in Parquet files.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Viya LIBNAME Engines for ORC and Parquet: Reference
WHERE=(where-expression-1 <logical-operator <where-expression-n>>)
Specifies specific conditions to use to select rows from a data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
WHERE=(where-expression-1 <logical-operator where-expression-2> )
Specifies specific conditions to use to select observations from a SAS data set.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
WHERENOINDEX=(name(s))
Specifies a list of indexes to exclude when making WHERE expression evaluations.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
WHEREUP=NO | YES
Specifies whether to evaluate new observations and modified observations against a WHERE expression.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
WRITE=write-password
Assigns a WRITE password to a SAS data set that prevents users from writing to a file, unless they enter the password.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS LIBNAME Engine for SAS Federation Server: User’s Guide
WRITE=write-password
Assigns a WRITE= password to a SAS data set that prevents users from writing to a file, unless the users enter the password.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference
WRITETRANSFERSIZE=integer | integerK | integerM | integerG
Specifies the maximum number of bytes that the CAS engine writes when transferring data to the CAS server.
Product: Base SAS
Document: SAS Data Set Options: Reference

SAS Data Agent

C D I K N P Q R S U

Name
Syntax and Description
CURSOR_TYPE=DYNAMIC | FORWARD_ONLY | KEYSET_DRIVEN | STATIC
Specifies the cursor type for read-only and updatable cursors.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBCOMMIT=n
Causes an automatic COMMIT (a permanent writing of data to the DBMS) after a specified number of rows are processed.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBCONDITION="DBMS-SQL-query-clause"
Specifies criteria for subsetting and ordering DBMS data.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBFORCE= YES | NO
Specifies whether to force the truncation of data during insert processing.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBGEN_NAME= DBMS | SAS
Specifies how SAS renames columns automatically when they contain characters that SAS does not allow.Specifies how SAS automatically renames columns (when they contain characters that SAS does not allow, such as $) to valid SAS variable names.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBINDEX= YES | NO | <'>index-name<'>
Detects and verifies that indexes exist on a DBMS table.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBINFMT=
(column-name-1=<'> SAS-data-type<'>
<…column-name-n=<'> SAS-data-type<'> > )
Specifies data types to override the default SAS data types during input processing.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBKEY=(<'> column-1<'> <… <'> column-n<'> > )
Specifies a key column to optimize DBMS retrieval.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBLABEL= YES | NO
Specifies whether to use SAS column labels or SAS column names as the DBMS column names during output processing.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBLARGETABLE=YES
Designates which table is the larger table when you are processing a join that involves tables from two different types of databases.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBNULL=< _ALL_=YES | NO >
| ( <column-name-1=YES | NO > <<column-name-2=YES | NO> ...> )
Indicates whether NULL is a valid value for the specified columns when a table is created.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBNULLKEYS=YES | NO
Specifies whether NULL values are allowed in key columns.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBSASLABEL= COMPAT | DBMS | NONE
Specifies how the table driver returns column labels.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBSASTYPE=(column-name-1=<'> SAS-data-type<'>
<…column-name-n=<'> SAS-data-type<'> > )
Specifies data types to override the default SAS data types during input processing.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DBTYPE=(column-name-1=<'> DBMS-type<'>
<…column-name-n=<'> DBMS-type<'> > )
Specifies a data type to use instead of the default DBMS data type when SAS creates a DBMS table.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
IGNORE_READ_ONLY_COLUMNS=YES | NO
Specifies whether to ignore or include columns that are Read-only and that have unique values when generating an SQL statement for inserts or updates.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
IN='database-name.tablespace-name' | database-name’
Lets you specify the database or tablespace in which you want to create a new table.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
INSERT_SQL=YES | NO
Determines the method that is used to insert rows into a data source.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
INSERTBUFF=positive-integer
Specifies the number of rows in a single DBMS insert.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
KEYSET_SIZE=number-of-rows
Specifies
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
NULLCHAR=SAS | YES | NO
Indicates how missing character values are handled during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
NULLCHARVAL='character-string'
Defines the character string that replaces missing character values during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
PRESERVE_COL_NAMES=NO | YES
Preserves spaces, special characters, and case sensitivity in column names when you create tables.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
QUALIFIER=qualifier-name
Identifies database objects, such as tables, by using a qualifier.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
QUERY_TIMEOUT=number-of-seconds
Specifies the number of seconds of inactivity to wait before canceling a query.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
READ_ISOLATION_LEVEL=DBMS-specific-value
Specifies which level of Read isolation locking to use when you are reading data.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
READ_LOCK_TYPE=ROW | PAGE | TABLE | NOLOCK | VIEW
Specifies how data in a DBMS table is locked during a Read transaction.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
READBUFF=integer
Specifies the number of rows of data to read into the buffer.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
SASDATEFMT=(DBMS-date-col-1='SAS-date-format'
<… DBMS-date-col-n='SAS-date-format'> )
Changes the SAS date format of a DBMS column.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
SCHEMA=schema-name
Enables you to read database objects, such as tables, in the specified DBMS schema.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
UPDATE_ISOLATION_LEVEL=DBMS-specific-value
Specifies the degree of isolation of the current application process from other concurrently running application processes.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
UPDATE_LOCK_TYPE=ROW | PAGE | TABLE | NOLOCK | VIEW
Specifies how data is locked during an update transaction.
Product: SAS Data Agent
Document: LIBNAME Engine for Cloud Data Exchange for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide

SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3

B D N R

Name
Syntax and Description
BATCH= Y | N
Specifies whether SAS uses SAP batch jobs for data extracts.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
DBCONDITION= "DBMS-SQL-query-clause"
Specifies criteria for subsetting and ordering DBMS data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
DBGEN_NAME= DBMS | SAS
Specifies how SAS automatically renames columns (when they contain characters that SAS does not allow, such as $) to valid SAS variable names.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
DBKEY= (<'>column-1<'> <... <'>column-n<'>>)
Specifies a key column to optimize DBMS retrieval.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
DBLARGETABLE=YES
Designates which is the larger table when you process a join of tables from two different types of databases.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
DBSASTYPE=(column-name-1=<'>SAS-data-type-1<'>
<column-name-2=<'>SAS-data-type-2<'> ...> )
Specifies an alternate data type that overrides the default SAS data type when loading data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
NULLCHAR= SAS | YES | NO
Indicates how missing SAS character values are handled during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
NULLCHARVAL= 'character-string'
Defines the character string that replaces missing SAS character values during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide
REREAD_EXPOSURE= NO | YES
Specifies whether the SAS/ACCESS engine behaves like a random-access engine for the scope of the LIBNAME statement.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface R/3
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3: User’s Guide

SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000

A C D E I N R S

Name
Syntax and Description
AUTOCOMMIT=YES | NO
Determines whether the engine commits (saves) updates as soon as you submit them.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
CURSOR_TYPE=KEYSET_DRIVEN | STATIC
Specifies the cursor type for read-only cursors and for cursors to be updated.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBCOMMIT=number-of-rows
Enables you to issue a commit statement automatically after a specified number of rows have been processed.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBCONDITION=SQL-query-clause
Specifies criteria for subsetting and ordering data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBCREATE_TABLE_OPTS='SQL-clauses'
Specifies data source-specific syntax to add to the CREATE TABLE statement.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBENCODING=12–byte SAS encoding-value
Specifies the encoding character set to use in the Microsoft Access database or in the Microsoft Excel workbook.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBFORCE= YES | NO
Specifies whether to force the truncation of data during insert processing.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBGEN_NAME=DBMS | SAS
Specifies whether to rename columns automatically when they contain disallowed characters.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBINDEX=YES | NO | <’>index-name<’>
Detects and verifies that indexes exist on a DBMS table.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBKEY=<('column-1' ... 'column-n')>
Improves performance for a join with a large source table and a small SAS data set (specifies a column to use as an index).
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBLABEL=YES | NO
Specifies whether to use SAS variable labels as data source column names during output processing.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBMAX_TEXT=integer
Determines the length, in bytes, of a very long data source character data type that is read into SAS or written from SAS when you are using a SAS/ACCESS engine.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBNULL=
(<column-name-1=YES | NO>
<column-name-n=YES | NO>
< _ALL_=YES | NO> )
Specifies whether NULL is a valid value for the specified columns when a table is created.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBNULLKEYS= YES | NO
Controls the format of the WHERE clause when you use the DBKEY data set option.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBSASLABEL=COMPAT | NONE
Specifies whether SAS/ACCESS saves the data source's column names as SAS label names.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBSASTYPE=(<column-name-1> =<SAS data-type> ...<column-name-n> =
<SAS data-type> )
Specifies data type(s) to override the default SAS data type(s) during input processing of data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
DBTYPE=(<column-name-1> =<data-source-type> ...
<column-name-1> =<data-source-type> )
Specifies a data type to use instead of the default data source data type when SAS creates a data source table.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
ERRLIMIT=integer
Specifies the number of errors that are allowed before SAS stops processing and issues a rollback.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
INSERT_SQL=YES | NO
Determines the method to use to insert rows into a data source.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
INSERTBUFF=number-of-rows
Specifies the number of rows in a single insert.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
NULLCHAR=YES | NO
Indicates how SAS character missing values are handled during insert, update, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
NULLCHARVAL=<'character-string'>
Defines the character string that replaces SAS character missing values during insert, update, and DBKEY= processing.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
READBUFF=<number-of-rows>
Specifies the number of rows of data to read into the buffer.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform
SASDATEFMT=(<data-source-date-column-1> =<SAS date-format> ...
<data-source-date-column-n> =<SAS date-format> )
Changes the SAS date format of a data source column.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000
Document: SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for the SAS Viya Platform

SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System

A B C D E F G H I L M N P R S T

Name
Syntax and Description
ATTRIBUTE=attribute-name
Specifies the attribute to use for retrieving elements.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
BOUNDARY=INSIDE | OUTSIDE | INTERPOLATED
Specifies the boundary type to use to retrieve PI Point time series data values.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
CALCULATION_BASIS=method
Specifies the method to determine the number of data points to use when calculating summary statistics.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
CATEGORY=category-name
Specifies the category name to use as a filter when you retrieve observations.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
CHILD=ALL | NO | IMMEDIATE | LEAF
Specifies the retrieval behavior when an engine retrieves elements for the target element.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
COUNT=integer
For PI System Data Archive, specifies the number of intervals to display in your data. For PI System Asset Framework, specifies the number of data values to retrieve.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
DBCONDITION="DBMS-SQL-query-clause"
Specifies criteria for subsetting and ordering DBMS data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
DBGEN_NAME=DBMS | SAS
Specifies how SAS automatically renames columns to valid SAS variable names when those column names contain characters that SAS does not allow.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
DBLARGETABLE=YES
Designates which table is the larger table when you are processing a join that involves tables from two different types of databases.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
DBMAX_TEXT=number-of-bytes
Specifies the maximum number of bytes to allocate for character columns.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
DBSASLABEL=COMPAT | DBMS | NONE
Specifies how the engine returns column labels.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
DBSASTYPE=(column-name-1=<'>SAS-data-type<'> <...column-name-n=<'>SAS-data-type<'> >)
Specifies data types that override the default SAS data types during input processing.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
END="end-time"
Specifies the timestamp of the last tag value to read in the form of a PI System timestamp string.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
FILTER="filter-expression"
Specifies filter expression that is used to limit the records that are read.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
GUID=element-ID
Specifies the element ID to use for retrieving an element.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
HIDEFLAGS=YES | NO
Specifies whether the columns Questionable, Annotated, and Substituted are hidden.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
HIDEOPTVARS=YES | NO
Specifies whether to exclude nonessential variables in the data set.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
INTERVAL="interval-length"
Specifies the length of the time interval to use when displaying data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
LABEL=<'>label<'>
Specifies that a SAS variable label is used as the output DBMS column name.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
MAX=value
Specifies the maximum value to read from the Value column.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
MIN=value
Specifies the minimal value to read from the Value column.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
MIXED=YES | NO
Specifies whether to merge data sets with different data types for Value with the Picomp virtual table.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
MODEL=ARCHIVE | COUNT | INTERPOLATE | PLOT
Specifies the data model to use to retrieve time series data values. This setting applies to the attribute of the PI Point value that is retrieved.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
NAME=<'>element-name<'>
Specifies the element name to use for retrieving elements.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
PATH="path-value"
Specifies the full path to use for retrieving an element and any children.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
ROWSET_SIZE=integer
Specifies the number of rows of DBMS data to read into the buffer.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
SASDATEFMT=(DBMS-date-column-1=<'>SAS-date-format<'> <...DBMS-date-column-n=<'>SAS-date-format<'> >)
Changes the SAS date format of a DBMS column.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
SCHEMA_TABLES=YES | NO
Specifies whether to create tables that give details about a schema.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
SEARCHBY=ATTRIBUTE | CATEGORY | GUID | NAME | PATH | TEMPLATE
Specifies the search method that locates element objects that are defined in the target server and database.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
SELECT=ALL | GOOD | BAD | SNAPSHOT
Specifies which values are displayed.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
SHOWFLAGS=YES | NO
Specifies whether the columns Questionable, Annotated, and Substituted display.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
SHOWINDEX=YES | NO
Specifies whether to include column _index from the Picomp table.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
START="start-time"
Specifies the timestamp of the earliest tag value to read in the form of a PI System TIMESTAMP string.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
TAGFILTER="string"
Specifies a character string that is used to filter tags when reading from the Pipoint virtual table.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
TAGLIST=data-set-name <(data-set-options)>
Specifies a SAS data set name that is used for the selection process when reading from Picomp.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
TAGLIST_JOIN=YES | NO
Specifies whether to perform a join between the requested table (Picomp or Picomp_Summary) and the table that is listed in TAGLIST.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
TEMPLATE=template-name
Specifies the template to use for retrieving elements.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference
TIMEZONE=LOCAL | GMT
Specifies whether SAS writes timestamps using local time or GMT.
Product: SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Nonrelational Databases: Reference

SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases

A B C D E F I K L M N O P Q R S T U Y

Name
Syntax and Description
ANALYZE=YES | NO
Lets SAS improve performance when a single Hive store table is queried.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
AUTOCOMMIT=YES | NO
Specifies whether to enable the DBMS autocommit capability.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_ACCOUNTNAME="account-name"
Specifies the name of the account to use on the external storage system.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_ALLOW_READ_ACCESS=YES | NO
Specifies that the original table data is still visible to readers during bulk loading.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_ALLOW_WRITE_ACCESS=YES | NO
Specifies that table data is still accessible to readers and writers while import is in progress.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_API_BULKLOAD=YES | NO
Specifies to perform bulk loading using the Oracle Direct Path API instead of the Oracle SQL*Loader utility.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_APPLICATIONID="value"
Specifies the application ID (a GUID string) for accessing the external storage system.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_AWS_CONFIG_FILE=path-and-file-name
Specifies the location of the AWS configuration file.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_AWS_CREDENTIALS_FILE=path-and-file-name
Specifies the path to the credentials file.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_AWS_PROFILE_NAME=profile-name
Specifies the AWS profile to use when there is more than one profile in the AWS configuration file.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_AZURE_SAS=value
Specifies the Azure shared access signature token value.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_BADFILE=path-and-file-name
Identifies a file that contains records that were rejected during bulk loading.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_BUCKET='<bucket-name>'
Specifies the bucket name to use when bulk loading or bulk unloading data files. The bucket name that you specify must already exist.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_CLIENT_DATAFILE=path-and-data-file-name
Specifies the location of the data file that contains DBMS data for bulk loading.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_CODEPAGE=numeric-code-page-ID
Identifies the code page that the DBMS engine uses to convert SAS character data to the current database code page during bulk loading.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_COLUMN_DELIMITER='any-single-character'
Specifies override of the default delimiter character for separating columns of data during data transfer or retrieval during bulk loading.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_COMPRESS=YES | NO
Specifies whether to compress data files using the gzip format.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_CONFIG='<path-and-file-name>'
Specifies the location of the optional configuration file that the SAS communication layer uses to interact with the Amazon S3 tool.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_CONTROL=path-and-control-file-name
BL_CONTROL=path-and-data-file-name
Identifies the file that contains control statements.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_COPY_LOCATION=path-name
Specifies the directory to which DB2 saves a copy of the loaded data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_CPU_PARALLELISM=number of processes or threads
Specifies the number of processes or threads to use when building table objects.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DATA_BUFFER_SIZE=buffer-size
Specifies the total amount of memory to allocate for the bulk-load utility to use as a buffer for transferring data.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DATAFILE=path-and-data-file-name
Identifies the file that contains DBMS data for bulk loading.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DATAFILE=path-and-data-file-name
Identifies the file that contains control statements.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DATAFILE_EXISTS=YES | NO
Lets you load a table from an existing data set.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DBACCESS_PATH="directory-path"
Specifies the location of the DBACCESS utility.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DEFAULT_DIR='host-specific-directory-path'
Specifies where bulk loading creates all intermediate files.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DELETE_DATAFILE=YES | NO
Specifies whether to delete only the data file (NO) or all files (YES) that the SAS/ACCESS engine creates for the data source bulk-load utilty.
Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases
Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
BL_DELETE_ONLY_DATAFILE=YES | NO
Specifies whether to delete the data file that the SAS/ACCESS engine creates for the DBMS bulk-load facility.
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BL_DELIMITER='any-single-character'
Specifies override of the default delimiter character for separating columns of data during data transfer or retrieval during bulk loading or unloading.
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BL_DIRECT_PATH=YES | NO
Specifies the Oracle SQL*Loader DIRECT option.
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BL_DISCARDFILE=path-and-discard-file-name
Identifies the file that contains records that were filtered from bulk loading because they did not match the criteria as specified in the CONTROL file.
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BL_DISK_PARALLELISM=number-of-processes-or-threads
Specifies the number of processes or threads to use when writing data to disk.
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BL_DNSSUFFIX="network-storage-host-name"
Specifies the network host name where the storage system resides.
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BL_ENCKEY=encryption-key-name
Specifies the name of the encryption key to use when you access an Amazon S3 environment.
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BL_ENCODING=character-set-encoding
Specifies the character set encoding to use for the external table.
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BL_ESCAPE='any-single-character' | 'OFF'
Specifies the single character to use for C escape sequences.
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BL_EXCEPTION=exception-table-name
Specifies the exception table into which rows in error are copied.
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BL_EXECUTE_CMD=command | script
Specifies the operating system command for segment instances to run.
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BL_EXECUTE_LOCATION=ALL
BL_EXECUTE_LOCATION=PRIMARY
BL_EXECUTE_LOCATION=HOST [segment-host], number-of-segments
BL_EXECUTE_LOCATION=SEGMENT segmentID
Specifies which segment instances run the given command.
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BL_EXTERNAL_WEB=YES | NO
Specifies whether the external data set accesses a dynamic data source.
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BL_FILESYSTEM="file-system-name"
Specifies the name of the file system within the external storage system.
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BL_FOLDER="file-path-and-folder"
Specifies the folder or file path for the data in the external storage system.
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BL_FORCE_NOT_NULL=YES | NO
Specifies how to process CSV column values.
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BL_FORMAT=TEXT | CSV | ORC | PARQUET
Specifies the format of the external or web table data, or interim staging file.
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BL_FORMAT_OPT="option" | "option=value"
Specifies format options for loading CSV files.
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BL_HEADER=YES | NO
Indicates whether to skip or load the first record in the input data file.
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BL_HOST='hostname' [Impala]
BL_HOST='localhost' [Greenplum]
Specifies the host name or IP address of the server where the external data file is stored.
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BL_IAM_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN="value"
Specifies an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies an IAM role.
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BL_IAM_ASSUME_ROLE_NAME="value"
Specifies an AWS IAM role name that enables you to connect to an Amazon S3 environment.
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BL_IAM_ROLE='role-value'
Specifies an optional Amazon Web Services IAM role to use for the COPY command.
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BL_IDENTITY="identity-value"
Specifies the authentication method for the COPY command.
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BL_INDEX_OPTIONS='any valid SQL*Loader Index option' segment-name
Enables you to specify SQL*Loader Index options with bulk loading.
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BL_INDEXING_MODE=AUTOSELECT | REBUILD | INCREMENTAL | DEFERRED
Indicates which scheme the DB2 load utility should use for index maintenance.
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BL_INFORMIXDIR="directory-path"
Specifies the location of the Informix SDK installation.
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BL_INTERNAL_STAGE=stage-and-path
Specifies the internal stage and path.
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BL_KEY=key-value
Specifies the Amazon Web Services access key that is used with key-based access control. If you are using temporary token credentials, this is the temporary access key ID.
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BL_LOAD_METHOD=INSERT | APPEND | REPLACE | TRUNCATE
BL_LOAD_METHOD=APPEND | REPLACE | TRUNCATE
BL_LOAD_METHOD=APPEND | REPLACE | TRUNCATE
Specifies the method by which data is loaded into a table during bulk loading.
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BL_LOAD_REPLACE=YES | NO
Specifies whether DB2 appends or replaces rows during bulk loading.
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BL_LOCATION=http://file-location
Specifies the location of a file on a web server for segment hosts to access.
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BL_LOG="path-and-log-file-name"
Identifies a log file that contains information for bulk loading, such as statistics and errors.
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BL_LOGFILE=path-and-log-file-name
Identifies a log file that contains information for bulk loading, such as statistics and errors.
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BL_MAXERRORS=value
Specifies the maximum number of rejected rows that are allowed in the load before the COPY command is canceled.
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BL_METHOD=CLILOAD | IMPORT | LOAD
Specifies the bulk-loading method to use for DB2.
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BL_NULL='/N' | empty-value
Specifies the string that represents a null value.
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BL_NUM_DATAFILES=value
Specifies the number of data files to create to contain the source data.
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BL_NUM_READ_THREADS=value
Specifies the number of threads to use for bulk unloading from the DBMS into SAS.
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BL_OPTIONS='option-1<, option-2<,..., option-N>>'
BL_OPTIONS='option-1 <option-2 < ... option-N>>'
BL_OPTIONS='option-1=value-1 <,option-2=value-2 <... option-N=value-N>>'
BL_OPTIONS='option-1 value-1 <option-2 value-2 < ... option-N value-N>>'
BL_OPTIONS='option-1<, option-2<,..., option-N>>'
Passes options to the DBMS bulk-load facility, which affects how it loads and processes data.
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BL_PARFILE=<parameter-file>
Specifies a file that contains the SQL*Loader command-line options.
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BL_PORT=port
Specifies the port number to use.
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BL_PORT_MAX=integer
Specifies the highest available port number for concurrent uploads.
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BL_PORT_MIN=integer
Specifies the lowest available port number for concurrent uploads.
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BL_PRESERVE_BLANKS=YES | NO
Determines how the SQL*Loader handles requests to insert blank spaces into CHAR/VARCHAR2 columns with the NOT NULL constraint.
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BL_PROTOCOL=gpfdist | file | http
Specifies the protocol to use.
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BL_PSQL_PATH=path-name
Specifies the location of the PSQL executable file.
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BL_QUOTE='single 1-byte character'
Specifies the quotation character for CSV mode.
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BL_RECOVERABLE=YES | NO
Determines whether the LOAD process is recoverable.
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BL_REGION=region
Specifies the Amazon Web Services (AWS) region from which data is being loaded.
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BL_REJECT_LIMIT=number
Specifies the reject limit count.
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BL_REJECT_TYPE=ROWS | PERCENT
Indicates whether the reject limit count is a number of rows or a percentage of total rows.
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BL_REMOTE_FILE=<'>directory-path<'>
Specifies the location of temporary files that are created by the bulk-loading utility.
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BL_RETURN_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=YES | NO
Specifies whether SQL*Loader (bulk-load) warnings should be displayed in SAS through the SYSERR macro as warnings or errors.
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BL_ROW_DELIMITER='character-sequence'
Specifies an override character sequence that delimits rows or records in data during data transfer or retrieval during bulk loading.
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BL_SECRET=secret-access-key
Specifies the secret access key that is used to bulk load data.
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BL_SERVER_DATAFILE=path-and-data-file-name
Specifies the location of the data file for bulk loading that the DBMS server instance can access.
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BL_SUPPRESS_NULLIF=(_ALL_=YES | NO)
BL_SUPPRESS_NULLIF=(column-name-1=YES | NO)< ... column-name-N=YES | NO>)
Indicates whether to suppress the NULLIF clause for the specified columns to increase performance when a table is created.
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BL_TIMEOUT=value
Specifies the maximum completion time in seconds for a storage task.
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BL_TOKEN=temporary-token
Specifies a temporary token that is associated with the temporary credentials that you specify with the BL_KEY= and BL_SECRET= data set options.
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BL_USE_ESCAPE=YES | NO
Specifies whether to escape a predefined set of special characters during bulk loading.
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BL_USE_LOG=YES | NO
Specifies whether to get reports on rejected rows and the corresponding error file.
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BL_USE_MANIFEST=YES | NO
Specifies whether to create a manifest file for S3.
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BL_USE_PIPE=YES | NO
Specifies whether to use a named pipe for data transfer.
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BL_USE_SSL=YES | NO
Specifies whether to use TLS encryption for connections to Amazon S3.
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BL_WARNING_COUNT=warning-count
Specifies the maximum number of row warnings to allow before the load fails.
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BL_WRITEBUFF=value
Specifies the number of rows to buffer in memory before writing to your data source.
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BL_YB_PATH=<'>path<'>
Specifies the path to the Yellowbrick ybload and ybunload tools.
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BUFFERS=number-of-shared-memory-buffers
Specifies the number of shared memory buffers to use for transferring data from SAS to Teradata.
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BULK_BUFFER=numeric-value
Specifies the number of bulk rows that the SAS/ACCESS engine can buffer for output.
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BULKLOAD=YES | NO
Loads rows of data as one unit.
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BULKUNLOAD=YES | NO
Rapidly retrieves (fetches) large number of rows from a data set.
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CAST=YES | NO
Specifies whether SAS or the Teradata DBMS server should perform data conversions.
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CAST_OVERHEAD_MAXPERCENT=<n>
Specifies the overhead limit for data conversions to perform in Teradata instead of SAS.
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CHAR_AS_BINARY=YES | NO
Specifies whether to fetch all character columns as binary values when reading data from DB2.
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COLUMN_DELIMITER=single-character
Specifies the single character to use as a column (field) delimiter.
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CURSOR_TYPE=DYNAMIC | FORWARD_ONLY | KEYSET_DRIVEN | STATIC
Specifies the cursor type for read-only and updatable cursors.
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DATETIME2=YES | NO
Specifies the scale for the timestamp literal for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and the native Microsoft driver.
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DB_ONE_CONNECT_PER_THREAD=YES | NO
Specifies whether to limit the number of connections to the DBMS server for a threaded Read.
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DBCOMMIT=n
Causes an automatic COMMIT (a permanent writing of data to the DBMS) after a specified number of rows are processed.
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DBCONDITION="DBMS-SQL-query-clause"
Specifies criteria for subsetting and ordering DBMS data.
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DBCONSTRAINT='DBMS-SQL-clauses'
Provides table-level definitions to specify when a table is created.
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DBCREATE_TABLE_EXTERNAL=YES | NO
Specifies the type of table to create and how associated data files are handled.
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DBCREATE_TABLE_LOCATION='path'
Identifies the HDFS location of the root directory for storing table data.
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DBCREATE_TABLE_OPTS='DBMS-SQL-clauses'
Specifies DBMS-specific syntax to add to the end of the CREATE TABLE statement.
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DBFORCE=YES | NO
Specifies whether to force data truncation during insert processing.
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DBGEN_NAME=DBMS | SAS
Specifies how SAS automatically renames columns (when they contain characters that SAS does not allow, such as $) to valid SAS variable names.
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DBINDEX=YES | NO | <’>index-name<’>
Detects and verifies that indexes exist on a DBMS table.
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DBKEY=(<'> column-1<'> <… <'> column-n<'> > )
Specifies a key column to optimize DBMS retrieval.
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DBLABEL=YES | NO
Specifies whether to use SAS variable labels or SAS variable names as the DBMS column names during output processing.
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DBLARGETABLE=YES
Designates which table is the larger table when you are processing a join that involves tables from two different types of databases.
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DBLINK=database-link
For Oracle, specifies a link from your local database to database objects on another server. For SAP ASE, specifies a link from your default database to another database on the server to which you are connected.
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DBMAX_TEXT=integer
Determines the length of very large DBMS character data types, such as BLOB or CLOB, that are read into SAS or written from SAS when you are using a SAS/ACCESS engine.
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DBMAX_TEXT_TYPES=LONG | ALL
Specifies whether the DBMAX_TEXT= data set option is applied to all character types or only "long" data types.
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DBNULL=<(>column-name-1=YES | NO< column-name-2=YES | NO...><)>
DBNULL=_ALL_=YES | NO
Indicates whether NULL is a valid value for the specified columns when a table is created.
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DBNULLKEYS=YES | NO
Specifies whether NULL values are allowed in key columns.
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DBNULLWHERE=YES | NO
Specifies whether character columns in a WHERE clause can contain NULL values.
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DBSASLABEL=COMPAT | DBMS | NONE
Specifies how the engine returns column labels.
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DBSASTYPE=(column-name-1=<'> SAS-data-type<'>
<…column-name-n=<'> SAS-data-type<'> > )
Specifies data types to override the default SAS data types during input processing.
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DBSLICE=("WHERE-clause-1" "WHERE-clause-2" <" WHERE-clause-3"...>)
DBSLICE=( <server=>"WHERE-clause-1" <server=> "WHERE-clause-2" <<server=> "WHERE-clause-3"...> )
Specifies user-supplied WHERE clauses to partition a DBMS query for threaded Reads.
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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 DBMS connections.
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DBTYPE=(column-name-1=<'> DMBS-type<'>
<column-name-n=<'> DBMS-type<'> ...> )
Specifies a data type to use instead of the default DBMS data type when SAS creates a DBMS table.
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DISTRIBUTE_ON='column-1 <…,column-n>' | RANDOM
Specifies one or more column names to use in the DISTRIBUTE ON clause of the CREATE TABLE statement.
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DISTRIBUTED_BY='column-1 <…,column-n>' | DISTRIBUTED RANDOMLY
Uses one or multiple columns to distribute table rows across database segments.
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ERRLIMIT=integer
Specifies the number of errors after which SAS stops processing and issues a rollback.
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ESCAPE_BACKSLASH=YES | NO
Specifies whether backslashes in literals are preserved during data copy from a SAS data set to a table.
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FASTEXPORT= YES | NO
Specifies whether the SAS/ACCESS engine uses the TPT API to read data.
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FASTLOAD YES | NO
Enables you to specify whether this is to be a FASTLOAD or not.
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FETCH_IDENTITY=YES | NO
Returns the value of the last inserted identity value.
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FETCH_NUMERIC_TYPE=FLOAT64 | NUMERIC
Specifies how to load NUMERIC data from Google BigQuery.
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IGNORE_FEDSQL_OBJECTS=YES | NO
Specifies whether to ignore FedSQL objects in a query.
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IGNORE_READ_ONLY_COLUMNS=YES | NO
Specifies whether to ignore or include columns whose data types are read-only when generating a SQL statement for inserts or updates.
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IN='database-name.tablespace-name' | database-name’
Lets you specify the database or tablespace in which you want to create a new table.
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INSERT_SQL=YES | NO
Determines the method to use to insert rows into a data source.
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INSERTBUFF=positive-integer
Specifies the number of rows in a single DBMS insert.
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KEYSET_SIZE=number-of-rows
Specifies the number of rows in the cursor that the keyset drives.
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LOCKTABLE=EXCLUSIVE | SHARE
Places exclusive or shared locks on tables.
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MBUFSIZE=size-of-shared-memory-buffers
Specifies the size of the shared memory buffers to use for transferring data from SAS to Teradata.
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ML_CHECKPOINT=checkpoint-rate
Specifies the interval between checkpoint operations in minutes.
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ML_ERROR1=temporary-table-name
Specifies the name of a temporary table that MultiLoad uses to track errors that were generated during the acquisition phase of bulk loading.
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ML_ERROR2=temporary-table-name
Specifies the name of a temporary table that MultiLoad uses to track errors that were generated during the application phase of bulk loading.
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ML_LOG=prefix-for-MultiLoad-temporary-tables
Specifies a prefix for the names of the temporary tables that MultiLoad uses during a bulk-loading operation.
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ML_RESTART=temporary-table-name
Specifies the name of a temporary table that MultiLoad uses to track checkpoint information.
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ML_WORK=temporary-table-name
Specifies the name of a temporary table that MultiLoad uses to store intermediate data.
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MODE=STANDARD | PERFORMANCE
Specifies whether to enable multiple performance-related options.
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MULTILOAD=YES | NO
Specifies whether Teradata Insert and Append operations should use the Teradata MultiLoad utility.
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MULTISTMT=YES | NO
Specifies whether insert statements are sent to Teradata one at a time or in a group.
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NULLCHAR=SAS | YES | NO
Indicates how missing SAS character values are handled during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
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NULLCHARVAL='character-string'
Specifies the character string that replaces missing SAS character values during insert, update, DBINDEX=, and DBKEY= processing.
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OR_IDENTITY_COLS=(column-name-1='user-sequence-1'
<column-name-2='user-sequence-2' ... column-name-n='user-sequence-n'>)
specifies columns to be used to simulate an identity column.
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OR_PARTITION=name of a partition in a partitioned Oracle table
Allows reading, updating, and deleting from a particular partition in a partitioned table, also inserting and bulk loading into a particular partition in a partitioned table.
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OR_UPD_NOWHERE=YES | NO
Specifies whether SAS uses an extra WHERE clause when updating rows with no locking.
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ORHINTS='Oracle-hint'
Specifies Oracle hints to pass to Oracle from a SAS statement or SQL procedure.
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PARMDEFAULT=YES | NO
Specifies whether the SAP HANA engine uses the defaults for variables and parameters that are specified in the metadata in SAP HANA.
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PARMSTRING=<"variable-name1=variable-value1,variable-name2=variable-value2,...">
< "'PLACEHOLDER' = ('variable-name1', 'variable-value1'),< 'PLACEHOLDER'=
('variable-name2', 'variable-value2'),>...">
Specifies a quoted string of variable name and value pairs separated by a comma, or a placeholder string.
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PARTITIONED_BY=(column-name1< ... column-nameN>)
Specifies the column name to use as the partition key for creating fact tables.
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PG_IDENTITY_COLS=(column-name="nextval('sequence-name')"
< ... column-nameN="nextval('sequence-nameN')">
)
Specifies that sequencing is being applied to one or more columns.
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POST_COLUMN_OPTS="DBMS-SQL-option-1<, ... DBMS-SQL-option-n>"
Adds database-specific options after the final column definition in a CREATE TABLE statement.
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POST_DML_STMT_OPTS=value
Specifies text to append to an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.
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POST_STMT_OPTS='DBMS-SQL-options'
Allows additional database-specific options to be placed after the CREATE TABLE statement in generated SQL code.
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POST_TABLE_OPTS=DBMS-SQL-options
Allows additional database-specific options to be placed after the table name in a CREATE TABLE statement.
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PRE_STMT_OPTS=DBMS-SQL-options
Allows additional database-specific options to be placed before a CREATE TABLE statement.
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PRE_TABLE_OPTS=DBMS-SQL-options
allows additional database-specific options to be placed before the table name in a CREATE TABLE statement.
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PRESERVE_COL_NAMES= YES | NO
Preserves spaces, special characters, and case sensitivity in DBMS column names when you create DBMS tables.
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QUALIFIER=<qualifier-name>
Specifies the qualifier to use when you are reading database objects, such as DBMS tables and views.
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QUERY_BAND="pair-name1=pair_value1;..."
Specifies whether to set a query band for the current transaction.
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QUERY_TAG="value"
Specifies an optional string that you can use to tag queries to your data source.
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QUERY_TIMEOUT=number-of-seconds
Specifies the number of seconds of inactivity to wait before canceling a query.
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READ_ISOLATION_LEVEL=DBMS-specific-value
Specifies which level of read isolation locking to use when you are reading data.
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READ_LOCK_TYPE=ROW | PAGE | TABLE | NOLOCK | VIEW
Specifies how data in a DBMS table is locked during a read transaction.
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READ_METHOD=JDBC | HDFS
Specifies how to read data.
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READ_MODE=STANDARD | STORAGE
Specifies the method to use to move data into SAS.
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READ_MODE_WAIT=YES | NO
Specifies during SAS/ACCESS Read operations whether Teradata waits to acquire a lock or fails your request when a different user has locked the DBMS resource.
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READBUFF=integer
Specifies the number of rows of DBMS data to read into the buffer.
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REPLACE=NO | YES
Specifies whether a new database table can overwrite an existing database table of the same name.
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ROW_DELIMITER=single-character
Specifies the single delimiter character to use to separate Hive table records.
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SASDATEFMT=(DBMS-date-col-1='SAS-date-format'
<DBMS-date-col-2='SAS-date-format-2'...>)
Changes the SAS date format of a DBMS column.
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SCANSTRINGCOLUMNS=YES | NO
Specifies whether to determine the maximum length of VARCHAR or large type columns in a database table or query.
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SCHEMA=schema-name
Specifies the schema to use when accessing tables and views in a database.
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SCRATCH_DB=schema-name
Specifies a Hive schema so that SAS can store temporary output.
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SEGMENT_NAME=segment-name
Lets you control the segment in which you create a table.
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SESSIONS=number-of-sessions
Specifies how many Teradata sessions to be logged on when using FastLoad, FastExport, or Multiload.
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SET=YES | NO
Specifies whether duplicate rows are allowed when creating a table.
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SLEEP=number-of-minutes
Specifies the number of minutes that FastExport, FastLoad, or MultiLoad waits before trying again to log on to Teradata.
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SUB_CHAR=value
Specifies a substitution character to use in place of any invalid characters that cannot be represented in the SAS session encoding.
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TABLE_TYPE=ROW | COLUMN | LOCAL
| LOCAL TEMPORARY | GLOBAL | GLOBAL TEMPORARY
Specifies the type of temporary tables and table storage when the engine creates tables in SAP HANA.
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TEMPORAL_QUALIFIER=CURRENT VALIDTIME
| VALIDTIME AS OF 'period'
| SEQUENCED VALIDTIME 'period' | NONSEQUENCED VALIDTIME 'period'

TEMPORAL_QUALIFIER=CURRENT TRANSACTIONTIME
| TRANSACTION AS OF 'period'
| NONSEQUENCED TRANSACTIONTIME
Specifies time-dimension criteria for retrieving data from Teradata.
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TENACITY=number-of-hours
Specifies how many hours that FastExport, FastLoad, or MultiLoad continues to try to log on again to Teradata if the maximum number of Teradata utilities are already running.
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TPT=YES | NO
Specifies whether SAS uses the TPT API to load data for Fastload, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert requests.
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TPT_APPL_PHASE=YES | NO
Specifies whether a load process that is being restarted has failed in the application phase.
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TPT_BLOCK_SIZE=integer
Specifies the block size in bytes for TPT Export.
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TPT_BUFFER_SIZE=integer
Specifies the output buffer size in kilobytes when SAS sends data to Teradata with Fastload or MultiLoad using the TPT API.
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TPT_CHECKPOINT_DATA=checkpoint_data_in_error_message
Specifies the checkpoint data to return to Teradata when restarting a failed MultiLoad or Multi-Statement step that uses the TPT API.
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TPT_DATA_ENCRYPTION=YES | NO
Specifies whether to fully encrypt SQL requests, responses, and data when SAS sends data to Teradata for Fastload, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert that uses the TPT API.
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TPT_ERROR_TABLE_1=valid_teradata_table_name
Specifies the name of the first error table for SAS to use when using the TPT API with Fastload or MultiLoad.
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TPT_ERROR_TABLE_2=valid_teradata_table_name
Specifies the name of the second error table for SAS to use when using the TPT API with Fastload or MultiLoad.
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TPT_LOG_TABLE=valid_teradata_table_name
Specifies the name of the restart log table for SAS to use when using the TPT API with Fastload, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert.
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TPT_MAX_SESSIONS=integer
Specifies the maximum number of sessions for Teradata to use when using the TPT API with FastLoad, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert.
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TPT_MIN_SESSIONS=integer
Specifies the minimum number of sessions for Teradata to use when using the TPT API with FastLoad, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert.
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TPT_PACK=integer
Specifies the number of statements to pack into a Multi-Statement insert request when using the TPT API.
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TPT_PACKMAXIMUM=YES | NO
Specifies whether to pack the maximum possible number of statements into Multi-Statement insert requests when using the TPT API.
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TPT_RESTART=YES | NO
Specifies that a failed FastLoad, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement run that used the TPT API is being restarted.
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TPT_TRACE_LEVEL=integer
Specifies the required tracing level for sending data to Teradata and using the TPT API with Fastload, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert.
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TPT_TRACE_LEVEL_INF=integer
Specifies the tracing level for the required infrastructure for sending data to Teradata and using the TPT API with Fastload, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert.
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TPT_TRACE_OUTPUT=file-name
Specifies the name of the external file for SAS to use for tracing when using the TPT API with Fastload, MultiLoad, or Multi-Statement insert.
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TPT_WORK_TABLE=valid_teradata_table_name
Specifies the name of the work table for SAS to use when using the TPT API with MultiLoad.
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TRANSCODE_FAIL=<ERROR> | <WARNING> | <SILENT>
Lets you specify how to handle processing and notification of transcoding errors.
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UPDATE_ISOLATION_LEVEL=DBMS-specific-value
Specifies the degree of isolation of the current application process from other concurrently running application processes.
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UPDATE_LOCK_TYPE=ROW | PAGE | TABLE | NOLOCK | VIEW
Specifies how data in a DBMS table is locked during an update transaction.
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UPDATE_MODE_WAIT=YES | NO
Specifies during SAS/ACCESS Update operations whether the DBMS waits to acquire a lock or fails your request when a different user has locked the DBMS resource.
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UPDATE_SQL=YES | NO
Determines which method to use to update and delete rows in a data source.
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UPDATEBUFF=positive-integer
Specifies the number of rows that are processed in a single DBMS Update or Delete operation.
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UPSERT=YES | NO
Specifies whether a Teradata MultiLoad upsert should take place.
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UPSERT_CONDITION=condition(s)-to-append
Specifies one or more conditions to add to a WHERE condition for a Teradata MultiLoad upsert.
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UPSERT_WHERE=list-of-column(s)
Specifies which columns in a primary table are used to generate a WHERE condition for a Teradata MultiLoad upsert.
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USE_PIPELINE=NO | YES
Enables pipeline read functionality for Amazon Redshift.
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YB_JAVA_HOME=<'>JRE-path<'>
Specifies the path to the JRE for Yellowbrick.
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