SAS System Options for IMS Databases

BMPREAD= SAS System Option

Specifies whether a SAS IMS program accessing databases is restricted to get calls within a BMP region.

Valid in:	SAS invocation
Category:	DATA step
Default:	N
Restriction:	Assigned a value that you cannot override.

BMPREAD=N | Y

N: specifies that programs are not restricted to get calls, and update calls can be issued within a BMP region.
Y: causes SAS to return a status code of SE and to set _ERROR_=1 when a DL/I update call is issued.