FMTSEARCH=

FMTSEARCH=

Controls the order in which format catalogs are searched

Language element: system option

Default: (WORK LIBRARY)

Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, System Options window, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol

OpenVMS specifics: valid values for libref

Syntax
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Syntax

FMTSEARCH=(libref-1 libref-2 . . . libref-n)

libref: specifies a valid OpenVMS libref. The value of libref can be either libref or libref.catalog. If only the libref is given, the SAS System assumes the FORMATS is the catalog name.

Details

The FMTSEARCH= system option searches format data logs in the order that they are listed, until the desired member is found. The WORK.FORMATS catalog is always searched first, and the LIBRARY.FORMATS catalog is searched next, unless one of them appears in the FMTSEARCH= list.

When you specify this system option in a configuration file or on the SAS command line, you must enclose the option value in double quotation marks. You must also separate each libref with a blank space, not with a comma, even though the comma is typically used as a list delimiter by OpenVMS.

See Also

FMTSEARCH= system option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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Language element:	system option
Default:	(WORK LIBRARY)
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, System Options window, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol
OpenVMS specifics:	valid values for libref