Startup System Options Listed by Product

Base SAS

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Name	Syntax and Description
ALIGNSASIOFILES System Option	ALIGNSASIOFILES NOALIGNSASIOFILES Aligns output data on a page boundary to improve performance. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN System Option	AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN \(provider-1 : domain-1 <, provider-2 : domain-2, ...> \) Associates a domain suffix with an authentication provider. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AUTOEXEC System Option	-AUTOEXEC file-specification AUTOEXEC \(file-specification-1 <...file-specification-n>\) -NOAUTOEXEC Specifies the location of the SAS autoexec file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
AZUREAUTHCACHELOC System Option	-AZUREAUTHCACHELOC "location" Specifies the location of a file that contains logon information for connecting to a Microsoft Azure storage system Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CATCACHE= System Option	CATCACHE=n | hexX | MIN | MAX Specifies the number of SAS catalogs to keep open in cache memory. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CHKPTCLEAN System Option	CHKPTCLEAN NOCHKPTCLEAN When SAS is in checkpoint mode or restart mode, specifies whether to erase the contents of the Work library after a batch program executes successfully. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CONFIG System Option	CONFIG file-specification NOCONFIG Specifies the configuration file that is used when initializing or overriding the values of SAS system options. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
CPUID System Option	CPUID NOCPUID Specifies whether the CPU identification number is written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DATAPAGESIZE= System Option	DATAPAGESIZE=COMPAT93 | CURRENT Specifies how SAS determines the optimal buffer size for a SAS data set or utility file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
DBCS System Option	-DBCS -NODBCS Recognizes double-byte character sets (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
DBCSLANG System Option	-DBCSLANG language Specifies a double-byte character set (DBCS) language. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
DBCSTYPE System Option	-DBCSTYPE encoding-method Specifies the encoding method to use for a double-byte character set (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
DMR System Option	DMR NODMR Specifies whether to enable SAS to invoke a server session for use with a SAS/CONNECT client. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ECHO System Option	ECHO 'message' NOECHO Specifies a message to be echoed to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ENCODING System Option	-ENCODING= ASCIIANY encoding-value ENCODING= encoding-value Specifies the default character-set encoding for the SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
ENGINE= System Option	ENGINE=engine-name Specifies the default access method for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FILELOCKWAIT= System Option	FILELOCKWAIT=wait-time Sets the number of seconds that SAS waits for a locked file to become available. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FILELOCKWAITMAX= System Option	FILELOCKWAITMAX=wait-time Sets an upper limit on the time SAS waits for a locked file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FILESYNC= System Option	FILESYNC= SAS | CLOSE | HOST | SAVE Specifies when operating system buffers that contain contents of permanent SAS files are written to disk. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FONTSLOC= System Option	FONTSLOC=location Specifies the location of the fonts that are supplied by SAS; names the default font file location for registering fonts that use the FONTREG procedure. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
FSDBTYPE System Option	-FSDBTYPE encoding-method Specifies a full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS) encoding method. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
FSIMM System Option	-FSIMM fsdevice_name=IMM-name1<, fsdevice_name=IMM-name2> ... Specifies input method modules (IMMs) for full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
FSIMMOPT System Option	-FSIMMOPT fullscreen-IMM:IMM-option Specifies options for input method modules (IMMs) that are used with a full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
HTTPNOPROXY= System Option	HTTPNOPROXY=hostname <...hostname> Specifies the hosts that are not to be proxied. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
HTTPPROXY= System Option	HTTPPROXY=hostname<:port-number> Specifies the proxy host and optional port. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
HTTPSERVERPORTMAX= System Option	HTTPSERVERPORTMAX=max-port-number Specifies the highest port number that can be used by the SAS HTTP server for remote browsing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
HTTPSERVERPORTMIN= System Option	HTTPSERVERPORTMIN=min-port-number Specifies the lowest port number that can be used by the SAS HTTP server for remote browsing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
INITCMD System Option	INITCMD "command-1 <windowing-command-n> " Specifies an application invocation command and optional SAS windowing environment or text editor commands that SAS executes after processing the AUTOEXEC= file and the INITSTMT option during SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LABELCHKPT System Option	LABELCHKPT NOLABELCHKPT Specifies whether checkpoint-restart data for labeled code sections is to be recorded for batch programs. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LABELCHKPTLIB= System Option	LABELCHKPTLIB=libref Specifies the libref of the library where the checkpoint-restart data is saved for labeled code sections. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LABELRESTART System Option	LABELRESTART NOLABELRESTART Specifies whether to execute a batch program by using checkpoint-restart data for data collected at labeled code sections. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LOCALEDATA System Option	LOCALEDATA= SASLOCALE | REGISTRY Specifies the source database for the locale information. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
LOG System Option	LOG file-specification NOLOG Specifies a destination for the SAS log when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LOGLANGCHG System Option	LOGLANGCHG NOLOGLANGCHG Specifies whether the language of the SAS log can be changed. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
LOGLANGENG System Option	LOGLANGENG NOLOGLANGENG Specifies using the English language for SAS log message text when the LOCALE option is set after start-up. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
LOGPARM= System Option	LOGPARM="<OPEN= APPEND | REPLACE | REPLACEOLD> < ROLLOVER= AUTO | NONE | SESSION | n | nK | nM | nG> < WRITE= BUFFERED | IMMEDIATE> " Specifies when SAS log files are opened, closed, and, in conjunction with the LOG= system option, how they are named. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
LSWLANG System Option	LSWLANG=LOCALE | language Specifies the language for the language switching feature when the LOGLANGCHG or ODSLANGCHG system option is set at SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
MAPEBCDIC2ASCII= System Option	MAPEBCDIC2ASCII= TRANTAB catalog-entry Specifies a translation table that SAS uses to transcode from EBCDIC to ASCII and from ASCII to EBCDIC. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
MEMSIZE System Option	MEMSIZE n | nK | nM | nG | nT | hexX | MAX Specifies the limit on the total amount of virtual memory that can be used by a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MINPARTSIZE System Option	-MINPARTSIZE n | nK | nM | nG Specifies the minimum partition size to use when creating SPD Engine data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
MSG System Option	MSG pathname MSG ('pathname' 'pathname' ...) Specifies the library that contains the SAS error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
MSGCASE System Option	MSGCASE NOMSGCASE Specifies whether notes, warnings, and error messages that are generated by SAS are displayed in uppercase characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
NEWS= System Option	NEWS=external-file NONEWS Specifies an external file that contains messages to be written to the SAS log, immediately after the header. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
ODSLANGCHG System Option	ODSLANGCHG NOODSLANGCHG Determines whether the language of the text of the ODS output can be changed Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide
OPLIST System Option	OPLIST NOOPLIST Specifies whether the settings of the SAS system options are written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PDFPASSWORD= System Option	PDFPASSWORD=(OPEN=password | OPEN="password" < OWNER=password | OWNER="password">) PDFPASSWORD=(OWNER=password | OWNER="password" <OPEN=password | OPEN="password">) PDFPASSWORD=(OPEN=password | OPEN="password") PDFPASSWORD=(OWNER=password | OWNER="password") Specifies the password to use to open a PDF document and the password used by a PDF document owner to set document permissions and restrictions. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN= System Option	PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN=domain-name Specifies the domain name of the primary authentication provider. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PRINT System Option	PRINT file-specification NOPRINT Specifies a destination for SAS output when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
PROTOLIBS System Option	PROTOLIBS=NONE | OS_PATHS | SAS_PATHS | (OS_PATHS, SAS_PATHS) | (“user-path-1”,“user-path-n”) | (OS_PATHS, SAS_PATHS, “user-path-1”,“user-path-n”) | (‘user-path-1’ SAS_PATHS ‘user-path-n’) | (OS_PATHS ‘user-path-1’ ‘user-path-n’) Specifies the paths that PROC PROTO can use to find and register load modules. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
REALMEMSIZE System Option	REALMEMSIZE n | nK | nM | nG | hexX | MIN | MAX Specifies the amount of real (physical) memory SAS can expect to allocate. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RLANG System Option	RLANG NORLANG Specifies whether SAS executes R language statements within SAS/IML. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RSASUSER System Option	RSASUSER NORSASUSER Specifies whether to open the Sasuser library for Read access or Read-Write access. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
RTRACE System Option	RTRACE ALL | NONE | VER Produces a list of resources that are read or loaded during a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SASHELP= System Option	SASHELP=library-specification Specifies the location of the Sashelp library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SASUSER= System Option	SASUSER=library-specification | pathname Specifies the SAS library to use as the Sasuser library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SERVICESBASEURL= System Option	SERVICESBASEURL="your-site-services-URL<:port-number>" Specifies the root URL used to connect to SAS Viya services. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SETINIT System Option	SETINIT NOSETINIT Specifies whether site license information can be altered. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SPDEMAXTHREADS System Option	-SPDEMAXTHREADS n Specifies the maximum number of threads that the SPD Engine can spawn for I/O processing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
SPDEUTILLOC System Option	-SPDEUTILLOC directory | ("directory-1" "directory-2"...) Specifies one or more file system locations in which the SPD Engine can temporarily store utility files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
STARTLIB System Option	STARTLIB NOSTARTLIB Specifies whether SAS assigns user-defined permanent librefs when SAS starts. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STEPCHKPT System Option	STEPCHKPT NOSTEPCHKPT Specifies whether checkpoint-restart data for DATA and PROC steps is to be recorded for a batch program. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STEPCHKPTLIB= System Option	STEPCHKPTLIB=libref Specifies the libref of the library where checkpoint-restart data for DATA and PROC steps is saved. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
STEPRESTART System Option	STEPRESTART NOSTEPRESTART Specifies whether to execute a batch program by using checkpoint-restart data for DATA and PROC steps. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
SYSIN System Option	SYSIN filename NOSYSIN Specifies the default location of SAS source code when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TERMINAL System Option	TERMINAL NOTERMINAL Specifies whether to associate a terminal with a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
TERMSTMT= System Option	TERMSTMT='statement(s)' Specifies the SAS statements to execute when SAS terminates. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
UTILLOC= System Option	UTILLOC=WORK | filename | location | (location-1 location-2 ...) Specifies one or more file system locations in which enabled threaded applications can store utility files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
UUIDGENDHOST= System Option	UUIDGENDHOST='host-string' Identifies the host and port or the LDAP URL that the UUID Generator Daemon runs on. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
VERBOSE System Option	VERBOSE NOVERBOSE Specifies whether SAS writes the system option settings to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
WORK= System Option	WORK filename | directory Specifies the Work library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
WORKINIT System Option	WORKINIT NOWORKINIT Specifies whether to initialize the Work library at SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference
WORKPERMS System Option	WORKPERMS permission-value Sets the permissions of the SAS Work library when it is initially created. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options: Reference

SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases

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Name	Syntax and Description
DBSRVTP= System Option	DBSRVTP='ALL' | 'NONE' | '(engine-name(s))' Specifies whether SAS/ACCESS engines hold or block the originating client while making performance-critical calls to the database. Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference
NOSTSUFFIX System Option	NOSTSUFFIX Simplifies diagnostic messages by suppressing some nonessential output. Product: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases Document: SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference

SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya)

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Name	Syntax and Description
AUTOSIGNON System Option	AUTOSIGNON |NOAUTOSIGNON Automatically signs on the client session to the server session, establishing a client/server connection when a connection does not already exist. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
CONNECTOUTPUT= System Option	CONNECTOUTPUT=BUFFERED | IMMEDIATE For a synchronous RSUBMIT, directs the server's output and log to the client session. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
CONNECTPERSIST System Option	CONNECTPERSIST |NOCONNECTPERSIST Specifies whether a connection between a client and a server persists (continues) after the RSUBMIT has completed. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
CONNECTREMOTE= System Option	CONNECTREMOTE=server-ID Identifies the server session that a SAS/CONNECT client connects to. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
CONNECTWAIT System Option	CONNECTWAIT |NOCONNECTWAIT Specifies whether remote submits are executed synchronously or asynchronously. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
DMR System Option	DMR Invokes a server session. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
SASCMD= System Option	SASCMD=<"SAS-command <SAS-system-options>" | "!SASCMD SAS-system-options"> Specifies the command that starts a server session in a new pod in the Kubernetes cluster by default. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
SIGNONWAIT System Option	SIGNONWAIT |NOSIGNONWAIT Specifies whether a SAS/CONNECT sign-on should be executed asynchronously or synchronously. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
SYSRPUTSYNC System Option	SYSRPUTSYNC |NOSYSRPUTSYNC Sets %SYSRPUT macro variables in the client session when the %SYSRPUT statements are executed rather than when a synchronization point is encountered. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
TBUFSIZE= System Option	TBUFSIZE=buffer-size-in-bytes Specifies the size of the buffer that is used by the SAS application layer for transferring data between a client and a server across a network. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
TCPLISTENTIME= System Option	TCPLISTENTIME=listen-time-in-seconds | MIN | MAX Specifies the amount of time a SAS/CONNECT server listens for a client to connect before terminating the CONNECT server session. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
TCPPORTFIRST= System Option	TCPPORTFIRST=n Specifies the first value in a range of TCP/IP ports for a client to use to connect to a server. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide
TCPPORTLAST= System Option	TCPPORTLAST=n Specifies the last value in a range of TCP/IP ports for a client to use to connect to a server. Product: SAS/CONNECT (on SAS Viya) Document: SAS/CONNECT for the SAS Viya Platform: User’s Guide