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Summary of All SAS System Options

Summary of All SAS System Options lists every SAS system option available under UNIX. Many of these options have no host-specific behavior and are described in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. If an option is available only under UNIX, it is described in SAS Companion for UNIX Environments. If an option is available under all environments but has some environment-specific behavior, it is described in both SAS Language Reference: Dictionary and SAS Companion for UNIX Environments. Use the following legend to see where to find more information on an option.
Comp indicates that the option is described in this chapter .
LR indicates that the option is described in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.
Access indicates that the option is described in SAS/ACCESS Software for Relational Databases: Reference, (CA-OpenIngres Chapter).
Connect indicates that the option is described in SAS/CONNECT User's Guide.
Share indicates that the option is described in SAS/SHARE User's Guide.
Methods indicates that the option is described in Communications Access Methods for SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE Software.
Summary of All SAS System Options also shows the default value for each option and where you can specify the option:

Summary of All SAS System Options

Can Be Specified In
Name Default SAS Invocation, SASV8_OPTIONS, Configuration File OPTIONS Statement System Options Window See
ALTLOG no copy X

Comp
ALTPRINT no copy X

Comp
APPEND none X

Comp
APPLETLOC !SASROOT/misc/applets X

LR
ASYNCHIO see LR X

LR
AUTOEXEC see description X

Comp
BATCH NOBATCH X

Comp/LR
BINDING DEFAULT X X X LR
BLKSIZE 256 X X X Comp
BOTTOMMARGIN none X X X LR
BUFNO 1 X X X Comp/LR
BUFSIZE 0 X X X Comp/LR
BYERR BYERR X X X LR
BYLINE BYLINE X X X LR
CAPS NOCAPS X X X LR
CARDIMAGE NOCARDIMAGE X X X LR
CATCACHE 0 X

LR
CBUFNO 0


LR
CENTER CENTER X X X LR
CHARCODE NOCHARCODE X X X LR
CLEANUP see description X X X Comp/LR
CMDMAC NOCMDMAC X X X LR
CMPOPT none X X X LR
COLLATE NOCOLLATE X X X LR
COLORPRINTINT COLORPRINTINT X X X LR
COMAMID TCP X

Connect/Share/Methods
COMAUX1 X


Methods
COMAUX2 X


Methods
COMPRESS NO X X X LR
CONFIG see description X (also SASV8_CONFIG environment variable) Comp
CONNECTREMOTE none X X X Connect
CONNECTSTATUS X X X X Connect
CONNECTWAIT X X X X Connect
CONSOLELOG none X

LR
COPIES 1 X X X LR
CPUID CPUID X

LR
DATASTMTCHK COREKEYWORDS X X X LR
DATE DATE X X X LR
DBCS NODBCS X

Comp
DBCSLANG see description X

Comp
DBCSTYPE see description X

Comp
DETAILS NODETAILS X X X LR
DEVICE none X X X Comp/LR
DFLANG ENGLISH X X X LR
DKRICOND ERROR X X X LR
DKROCOND WARN X X X LR
DLDMGACTION REPAIR X X X LR
DMR NODMR X

Connect
DMS DMS X

LR
DMSEXP NODMSEXP X

LR
DOCLOC none X

LR
DSNFERR DSNFERR X X X LR
DUPLEX NODUPLEX X X X LR
ECHO none X

Comp
ECHOAUTO NOECHOAUTO X

LR
EDITCMD none X X
Comp
EMAILSYS none X (except SASV8_OPTIONS environment variable) Comp
ENGINE V8 X

Comp/LR
ERRORABEND NOERRORABEND X X X LR
ERRORCHECK NORMAL X

LR
ERRORS 20 X X X LR
EXPLORER NOEXPLORER X

LR
FILELOCKS FAIL X

Comp
FIRSTOBS 1 X X X LR
FMTERR FMTERR X X X LR
FMTSEARCH WORK library X X X LR
FORMCHAR |----|+|---+=| -/\<>* X X X LR
FORMDLIM none X X X LR
FORMS DEFAULT X X X LR
FSDBTYPE none X

Comp
FSIMM none X

Comp
FSIMMOPT none X

Comp
FULLSTIMER NOFULLSTIMER X X
Comp
GISMAPS see description


LR
GWINDOW GWINDOW X X X LR
HELPLOC !SASROOT/X11/native_help X

Comp/LR
IMPLMAC NOIMPLMAC X X X LR
INGOPTS none X

Access
INITCMD none X

LR
INITSTMT none X

LR
INVALIDDATA . X X X LR
INSERT none X

Comp
LABEL LABEL X X X LR
_LAST_ _NULL_ X X X LR
LEFTMARGIN none X X X LR
LINESIZE see description X X X Comp/LR
LMODE LMODE X

Comp
LOG see description X

Comp
LPTYPE see description X X
Comp
MACRO MACRO X

LR
MAPS !SASROOT/maps X X X LR/Comp
MAUTOSOURCE MAUTOSOURCE X X X LR
MAXMEMQUERY 6M X

Comp
MERGENOBY NOWARN X X X LR
MERROR MERROR X X X LR
MFILE NOMFILE X X X LR
MEMSIZE 48M X

Comp
MISSING . X X X LR
MLOGIC NOMLOGIC X X X LR
MPRINT NOMPRINT X X X LR
MRECALL NOMRECALL X X X LR
MSG !SASROOT/sasmsg X

Comp
MSGCASE NOMSGCASE X

LR
MSGLEVEL N X X X LR
MSTORED NOMSTORED X X X LR
MSYMTABMAX 4M X X X Comp/LR
MULTENVAPPLE NOMULTENVAPPLE X X
LR
MVARSIZE 32K X X X Comp/LR
NETENCRYPT NONETENCRYPT X X X Share/Connect
NETENCRYPTALGORITHM


none

X X X Share/Connect
NETENCRYPTKEYLEN


0

X X X Share/Connect
NETMAC NETMAC X X X Share/Connect
NEWS !SASROOT/misc/base/news X

Comp/LR
NOTES NOTES X X X LR
NUMBER NUMBER X X X LR
OBJECTSERVER NOOBJECTSERVER X

LR
OBS MAX X X X Comp/LR
OPLIST NOOPLIST X

Comp
ORIENTATION PORTRAIT X X X LR
OVP NOOVP X X X LR
PAGENO 1 X X X LR
PAGESIZE see description X X X Comp/LR
PAPERDEST none X X X LR
PAPERSIZE LETTER X X X LR
PAPERSOURCE none X X X LR
PAPERTYPE PLAIN X X X LR
PARM none X X X LR
PARMCARDS FT15F001 X X X LR
PATH !SASROOT/sasexe X

Comp
PRINT see description X

Comp
PRINTCMD none X X
Comp
PRINTERPATH none X (Available on MIPS ABI and Intel ABI only) LR
PRINTINIT NOPRINTINIT X

LR
PRINTMSGLIST PRINTMSGLIST X X X LR
PROBSIG 0 X X X LR
PROC PROC X X X LR
PROCLEAVE 8K X

Comp
REPLACE REPLACE X X X LR
REP_MGRLOC none X

LR
REUSE NO X X X LR
RIGHTMARGIN none X X X LR
RSASUSER NORSASUSER X

Comp/LR
RTRACE none X

Comp
RTRACELOC none X

Comp
S 0 X X X LR
SASAUTOS SASAUTOS fileref X X X Comp/LR
SASCMD none X

Connect
SASFRSCR none Valid in SAS Component Language Connect
SASHELP !SASROOT/sashelp X

Comp/LR
SASMSTORE none X X X LR
SASSCRIPT !SASROOT/misc/connect X X X Comp/Connect
SASUSER ~SASUSER.800 X

Comp/LR
SEQ 8 X X X LR
SEQENGINE V8TAPE X X X Comp
SERROR SERROR X X X LR
SET none X

Comp
SETINIT NOSETINIT X

LR
SKIP 0 X X X LR
SOLUTIONS SOLUTIONS X

LR
SORTANOM none X X
Comp
SORTCUT 0 X X
Comp
SORTCUTP 0 X X
Comp
SORTDEV see decription X X
Comp
SORTDUP physical X X X LR
SORTLIB none X X
Comp
SORTNAME SYNCSORT X X
Comp
SORTPARM none X X
Comp
SORTPGM SAS X X
Comp
SORTSEQ none X X X LR
SORTSIZE 16M X X X Comp/LR
SOURCE SOURCE X X X LR
SOURCE2 NOSOURCE2 X X X LR
SPOOL NOSPOOL X X X LR
STARTLIB STARTLIB X

LR
STDIO NOSTDIO X

Comp
STIMEFMT M X

Comp
STIMER STIMER X X
Comp
SUMSIZE 8K


LR
SYMBOLGEN NOSYMBOLGEN X X X LR
SYNCHIO see LR X

LR
SYSIN none X

Comp
SYSLEAVE 8K X

Comp
SYSPARM none X X X LR
SYSPRINT default system printer X

Comp
S2 0 X X X LR
TAPECLOSE REREAD X X X Comp
TBUFSIZE 0 X X X Connect
TCPPORTFIRST 0 SAS invocation on the remote host Methods
TCPPORTLAST 0 SAS invocation on the remote host Methods
TERMINAL TERMINAL X

LR
TOPMARGIN none X X X LR
TRAINLOC none X

LR
TRANTAB none X X X LR/Connect
UNBUFLOG NOUNBUFLOG X

Comp
USER none X X X Comp/LR
VALIDVARNAME V7 X X X LR
VERBOSE NOVERBOSE X

Comp
VNFERR VNFERR X X X LR
WORK see description X

Comp/LR
WORKINIT WORKINIT X

Comp/LR
WORKTERM WORKTERM X X X LR
XCMD XCMD X

Comp
XPRINTNM Print Postscript to disk X X
Comp
YEARCUTOFF 1920 X X X LR


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