Data Set Options for Relational Databases

BL_SYNCHRONOUS= Data Set Option

Specifies how to process source file record sets.

Default value:	YES
Valid in:	DATA and PROC steps (when accessing DBMS data using SAS/ACCESS software)
DBMS support:	HP Neoview

Syntax

BL_SYNCHRONOUS=YES | NO

YES: specifies that source file record sets can be processed in a different order for increased performance and parallelism.
NO: specifies that source file record sets are processed serially (in the order in which they appear in the source file).

To specify this option, you must first set BULKEXTRACT=YES.

This option is ignored for extraction.