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| HSWORK |
| Default: | NOHSWORK |
| Valid in: | configuration file, SAS invocation |
| Category: | File Control: SASFILES |
| OS/390 specifics: | all |
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| HSWORK | NOHSWORK |
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The HSWORK value indicates that a hiperspace should be used for the WORK data library. Specifying NOHSWORK indicates that the WORK data library will not be a hiperspace.
NOHSWORK is the default setting for this option, and this default is probably suitable for most of your programming needs. However, there may be times when you want to place the WORK data library in a hiperspace. For example, the performance of programs (with regard to elapsed time) that perform only output operations to the WORK data library may improve significantly when the WORK data library is a hiperspace library. The performance of programs that perform a mixture of input, output, and update operations usually does not show a significant improvement in elapsed time.
Note: The effect on performance of using a hiperspace for WORK data sets is site-dependent.
Your system administrator may want to make recommendations based on investigation
of this issue for your
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