Startup System Options Listed Alphabetically

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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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
CPUID System Option	CPUID NOCPUID Specifies whether the CPU identification number is written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
DBCS System Option	-DBCS -NODBCS Recognizes double-byte character sets (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS) Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
DBCSLANG System Option	-DBCSLANG language Specifies a double-byte character set (DBCS) language. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS) Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
ECHO System Option	ECHO 'message' NOECHO Specifies a message to be echoed to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
ENGINE= System Option	ENGINE=engine-name Specifies the default access method for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
HTTPNOPROXY= System Option	HTTPNOPROXY=hostname <...hostname> Specifies the hosts that are not to be proxied. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
HTTPPROXY= System Option	HTTPPROXY=hostname<:port-number> Specifies the proxy host and optional port. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
LOCALEDATA System Option	LOCALEDATA= SASLOCALE \| REGISTRY Specifies the source database for the locale information. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS) Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
MSG System Option	MSG pathname MSG ('pathname' 'pathname' ...) Specifies the library that contains the SAS error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
NOSTSUFFIX System Option	NOSTSUFFIX Simplifies diagnostic messages by suppressing some nonessential output. Product: Accessing External Data Sources Document: Accessing External Data Sources with SAS®Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN= System Option	PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN=domain-name Specifies the domain name of the primary authentication provider. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
RLANG System Option	RLANG NORLANG Specifies whether SAS executes R language statements within SAS/IML. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SASHELP= System Option	SASHELP=library-specification Specifies the location of the Sashelp library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
SASUSER= System Option	SASUSER=library-specification \| pathname Specifies the SAS library to use as the Sasuser library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SETINIT System Option	SETINIT NOSETINIT Specifies whether site license information can be altered. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
STARTLIB System Option	STARTLIB NOSTARTLIB Specifies whether SAS assigns user-defined permanent librefs when SAS starts. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
TERMINAL System Option	TERMINAL NOTERMINAL Specifies whether to associate a terminal with a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
TERMSTMT= System Option	TERMSTMT='statement(s)' Specifies the SAS statements to execute when SAS terminates. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
VERBOSE System Option	VERBOSE NOVERBOSE Specifies whether SAS writes the system option settings to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
WORK= System Option	WORK filename \| directory Specifies the Work library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
WORKINIT System Option	WORKINIT NOWORKINIT Specifies whether to initialize the Work library at SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS System Options for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench

Last updated: September 24, 2026