OBS

OBS

Specifies which observation the SAS System will process last

Default: MAX

Valid in: SAS invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable, configuration file, OPTIONS statement, System Options window

UNIX specifics: default value

Syntax
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Syntax

-OBS n | nK|nM|nG|MIN|MAX | hexX

OBS=n | nK|nM|nG|MIN|MAX | hexX

n|nK|nM|nG: specifies the number of the last observation to process in multiples of 1; 1,024 (kilobytes); 1,048,576 (megabytes); and 1,073,741,824 (gigabytes), respectively. For example, a value of 8 specifies the eighth observation and a value of 3M specifies the 3,145,728th observation.
MIN: specifies 0. If OBS=0 and the NOREPLACE option is in effect, SAS might still be able to take certain actions. See SAS Language Reference: Dictionary for more information.
MAX: sets the maximum number of observations to process to 2,147,483,647. On 64-bit systems, MAX is 9,007,199,254,740,992.
hexX: specifies the number of the last observation in hexadecimal notation. For example, 2DX specifies the 45th observation.

See Also

SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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Default:	MAX
Valid in:	SAS invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable, configuration file, OPTIONS statement, System Options window
UNIX specifics:	default value