SAS Software in the CMS Environment

SAS Language Elements

Commands

The following commands have been enhanced:

The FILE and INCLUDE commands support a new ENCODING= option. This option enables you to dynamically change the character-set encoding when reading from or writing to external files.

Macros

The %KEYDEF macro, for defining function keys, is obsolete.

Procedures

The PRTDEF procedure, which enables you to define Universal Printers in batch mode, has a host-specific requirement for printing directly to a printer. You must specify PIPE as the DEVICE value and SASPRT as the DEST value.

Statements

The following statements have been enhanced:

The FILE, FILENAME, and INFILE statements support the BFS file type and BFS file and directory names in the file-specification argument.
The FILENAME statement supports the UPRINTER device type for Universal Printing.
The FILE, FILENAME, and INFILE statements support a new ENCODING= option. This option enables you to dynamically change the character-set encoding when reading from or writing to external files.

System Options

The following system options are new:
- ENCODING= specifies the character-set encoding for reading from or writing to external files.
- LOCALE= specifies the locale for the SAS session. The locale reflects the local conventions, language, and culture for a geographical region.
- NLSCOMPATMODE specifies whether to use the default character-set encoding to process data.
- REALMEMSIZE= specifies the amount of virtual memory that SAS can allocate to procedures and applications.
- VIOBUF= specifies the size of the virtual storage area to be used for members of the WORK library.

The following system options have been modified:
- SYSIN= now accepts a concatenated list of filenames in the file-specification argument. For each filename, a filetype of "SAS" and a filemode of "*" is assumed. Previously, only complete file specifications could be concatenated.
- The default value for UNIVERSALPRINT is now UNIVERSALPRINT.

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