Product	Release
SAS/GRAPH	9.2
Base SAS	9.2
SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files	9.2
SAS/SHARE	9.2
SAS Intelligence Platform Object Framework	9.2
SAS/CONNECT	9.2
SAS/ACCESS Interface to CA-Datacom/DB	9.2
SAS Data Quality Server
SAS/ACCESS Interface to IMS-DL/I	9.2

System Options Syntax Sorted by Product

Base SAS

Name	Syntax and Description
ACCESSIBILITY System Option	-ACCESSIBILITY STANDARD \| EXTENDED Enables the accessibility features on the Customize Tools dialog box. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
ALQMULT= System Option	ALQMULT=n Specifies the number of pages that are preallocated to a file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
ALTLOG System Option	–ALTLOG file-specification \| –NOALTLOG Specifies the destination for the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
ALTLOG System Option	-ALTLOG destination -NOALTLOG Specifies a destination for a copy of the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
ALTLOG= System Option	ALTLOG=< file-specification > NOALTLOG Specifies a destination for a copy of the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ALTLOG= System Option	ALTLOG=file-specification NOALTLOG Specifies a destination for a copy of the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
ALTPRINT System Option	-ALTPRINT file-specification \| -NOALTPRINT Specifies the destination for the output files from SAS procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
ALTPRINT System Option	-ALTPRINT file-specification -NOALTPRINT Specifies the destination for the copies of the output files from SAS procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
ALTPRINT= System Option	ALTPRINT=< file-specification > NOALTPRINT Specifies the destination for the copies of the output files from SAS procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ALTPRINT= System Option	ALTPRINT=file-specification NOALTPRINT Specifies the destination for the copies of the output files from SAS procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
APPEND System Option	-APPEND system-option new-option-value Used when SAS starts; appends the specified value to the existing value at the end of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
APPEND System Option	-APPEND system-option argument Used when SAS starts, appends the specified value at the end of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
APPEND= System Option	APPEND=(system-option=new-option-value) Used when SAS starts, appends the specified value to the existing value at the end of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
APPEND= System Option	APPEND=(system-option-1=argument-1 system-option-n=argument-n) Appends a value to the existing value of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
APPLETLOC= System Option	APPLETLOC=base-URL Specifies the location of Java applets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
APPLETLOC= System Option	APPLETLOC=“base-URL” Specifies the location of Java applets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
ARMAGENT= System Option	ARMAGENT= module Specifies another vendor's ARM agent, which is an executable module or keyword (such as, LOG4SAS), that contains a specific implementation of the ARM API. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Interface to Application Response Measurement (ARM): Reference
ARMAGENT= System Option	ARMAGENT=module Specifies another vendor's ARM agent, which is an executable module that contains a vendor's implementation of the ARM API. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ARMLOC= System Option	ARMLOC= fileref \| filename Specifies the location of the ARM log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Interface to Application Response Measurement (ARM): Reference
ARMSUBSYS= System Option	ARMSUBSYS=(ARM_NONE \| ARM_ALL \| subsystem1 < item1 < item2 <...> > > <, subsystem2 < item1 < item2 <...> > > > <OFF> ) Specifies whether to initialize the ARM subsystems, which determine the internal SAS processing transactions to be monitored. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Interface to Application Response Measurement (ARM): Reference
ASYNCHIO System Option	ASYNCHIO \| NOASYNCHIO Specifies whether asynchronous I/O is enabled. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN System Option	AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN <provider: domain> AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN <(provider-1: domain-1<, ...provider: domain-n>)> Associates a domain suffix with an authentication provider. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN System Option	AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN provider : domain AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN (provider–1 : domain–1 <, …provider-n : domain-n > ) Associates a domain suffix with an authentication provider. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
AUTHSERVER System Option	-AUTHSERVER <“ ”\| `domain-name' \| `.'> AUTHSERVER <“ ” \| `domain-name' \| `.'> Specifies the authentication domain server to search for secure server logins. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
AUTOEXEC System Option	-AUTOEXEC file-specification \| -NOAUTOEXEC Specifies the SAS autoexec file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
AUTOEXEC System Option	-AUTOEXEC file-specification -NOAUTOEXEC Specifies the SAS autoexec file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
AUTOEXEC= System Option	AUTOEXEC=file-specification \| NOAUTOEXEC Specifies the SAS autoexec file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
AUTOEXEC= System Option	AUTOEXEC=file-specification NOAUTOEXEC Specifies the SAS autoexec file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
AUTOSAVELOC System Option	-AUTOSAVELOC fileref \| pathname AUTOSAVELOC= fileref \| pathname Specifies the location of the Program Editor autosave file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
AUTOSAVELOC= System Option	AUTOSAVELOC= fileref \| “pathname” Specifies the location of the Program Editor autosave file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
AUTOSAVELOC= System Option	AUTOSAVELOC= “location” Specifies the location of the Program Editor autosave file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
AWSCONTROL System Option	-AWSCONTROL <TITLE \| NOTITLE> <SYSTEMMENU \| NOSYSTEMMENU > <MINMAX \| NOMINMAX> AWSCONTROL= <TITLE \| NOTITLE> <SYSTEMMENU \| NOSYSTEMMENU > <MINMAX \| NOMINMAX> Specifies whether the main SAS window includes a title bar, a system/control menu, and minimize/maximize buttons. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
AWSDEF System Option	-AWSDEF row-percent-position column-percent-position height-percent width-percent AWSDEF=row-percent-position column-percent-position height-percent width-percent Specifies the location and dimensions of the main SAS window when SAS initializes. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
AWSMENU System Option	-AWSMENU \| -NOAWSMENU AWSMENU \| NOAWSMENU Specifies whether to display the menu bar in the main SAS window. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
AWSMENUMERGE System Option	-AWSMENUMERGE \| -NOAWSMENUMERGE AWSMENUMERGE \| NOAWSMENUMERGE Specifies whether to embed menu items that are specific to Windows in the main menus. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
AWSTITLE System Option	-AWSTITLE “title-text” Replaces the default text in the main SAS title bar. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
BINDING= System Option	BINDING=DEFAULTEDGE \| LONGEDGE \| SHORTEDGE Specifies the binding edge for duplexed printed output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
BLKALLOC System Option	BLKALLOC \| NOBLKALLOC Causes SAS to set LRECL and BLKSIZE values for a SAS library when it is allocated rather than when it is first accessed. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
BLKSIZE= System Option	BLKSIZE=n \| nK \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the default block size for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
BOMFILE System Option	BOMFILE \| NOBOMFILE Specifies whether to write the byte order mark (BOM) prefix on Unicode-encoded external files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
BOTTOMMARGIN= System Option	BOTTOMMARGIN= margin-size<margin-unit> Specifies the size of the margin at the bottom of a printed page. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
BUFNO System Option	-BUFNO n \| nK \| nM\| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX BUFNO=n \| nK \| nM\| nG\| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing a SAS data set. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
BUFNO System Option	-BUFNO n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX BUFNO= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing SAS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
BUFNO= System Option	BUFNO= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing SAS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
BUFNO= System Option	BUFNO= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing SAS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
BUFSIZE System Option	-BUFSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MAX BUFSIZE=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MAX Specifies the size of a permanent buffer page for an output SAS data set. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
BUFSIZE System Option	-BUFSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MAX BUFSIZE=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MAX Specifies the permanent buffer page size for output SAS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
BUFSIZE= System Option	BUFSIZE= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MAX Specifies the permanent buffer page size for processing output SAS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
BUFSIZE= System Option	BUFSIZE= n\| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \|hexX \| MAX Specifies the permanent buffer page size for output SAS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
BYERR System Option	BYERR \| NOBYERR Specifies whether SAS produces errors when the SORT procedure attempts to process a _NULL_ data set. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
BYLINE System Option	BYLINE \| NOBYLINE Specifies whether to print BY lines above each BY group. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
BYSORTED System Option	BYSORTED \| NOBYSORTED Specifies whether observations in one or more data sets are sorted in alphabetic or numeric order or are grouped in another logical order. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CACHENUM= System Option	CACHENUM= n Specifies the number of caches used per SAS file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
CACHESIZE= System Option	CACHESIZE= n \| nK \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the size of cache that is used for each open SAS file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
CAPS System Option	CAPS \| NOCAPS Specifies whether to convert certain types of input to uppercase. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CAPSOUT System Option	CAPSOUT \| NOCAPSOUT Specifies that all output is to be converted to uppercase. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
CARDIMAGE System Option	CARDIMAGE \| NOCARDIMAGE Processes SAS source and data lines as 80-byte records. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
CARDIMAGE System Option	CARDIMAGE \| NOCARDIMAGE Specifies whether SAS processes source and data lines as 80-byte cards. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CATCACHE System Option	-CATCACHE n \| nK \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of SAS catalogs to keep open. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
CATCACHE System Option	-CATCACHE n \| nK \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of SAS catalogs to keep open. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
CATCACHE= System Option	CATCACHE=n \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of SAS catalogs to keep open. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
CATCACHE= System Option	CATCACHE= n \| nK \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of SAS catalogs to keep open. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
CATCACHE= System Option	CATCACHE= n \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX \| Specifies the number of SAS catalogs to keep open in cache memory. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CBUFNO= System Option	CBUFNO= n\| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \|MIN \| MAX Specifies the number of extra page buffers to allocate for each open SAS catalog. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CC= System Option	CC=CR \| FORTRAN \| PRINT Tells SAS what type of carriage control to use when it writes to external files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
CENTER System Option	CENTER \| NOCENTER Specifies whether to center or left align SAS procedure output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CGOPTIMIZE= System Option	CGOPTIMIZE=0 \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 Specifies the level of optimization to perform during code compilation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CHARCODE System Option	CHARCODE \| NOCHARCODE Specifies whether specific keyboard combinations are substituted for special characters that are not on the keyboard. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CHARTYPE= System Option	CHARTYPE=cell-size \| screen-size Specifies a character set or screen size to use for a device. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
CLEANUP System Option	-CLEANUP \| -NOCLEANUP CLEANUP \| NOCLEANUP Specifies how to handle out-of-resource conditions. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
CLEANUP System Option	CLEANUP \| NOCLEANUP Specifies how to handle an out-of-resource condition. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
CLEANUP System Option	-CLEANUP \| -NOCLEANUP CLEANUP \| NOCLEANUP Specifies how to handle an out-of-resource condition. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
CLEANUP System Option	CLEANUP \| NOCLEANUP For an out-of-resource condition, specifies whether to perform an automatic cleanup or a user-specified cleanup. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CLIST System Option	CLIST \| NOCLIST Specifies that SAS obtains its input from a CLIST. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
CMDMAC System Option	CMDMAC \| NOCMDMAC Controls command-style macro invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
CMPLIB= System Option	CMPLIB= libref.data-set \| (libref.data-set-1 … libref.data-set-n) \| (libref.data-set-n – libref.data-set-m) Specifies one or more SAS data sets that contain compiler subroutines to include during program compilation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CMPMODEL= System Option	CMPMODEL=BOTH \| CATALOG \| XML Specifies the output model type for the MODEL procedure. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CMPOPT= System Option	CMPOPT= optimization-value \| (optimization-value-1 ... optimization-value-n) \| “optimization-value–1 ... optimization-value-n”\| ALL \| NONE NOCMPOPT Specifies the type of code generation optimizations to use in the SAS language compiler. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
COLLATE System Option	COLLATE \| NOCOLLATE Specifies whether to collate multiple copies of printed output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
COLORPRINTING System Option	COLORPRINTING \| NOCOLORPRINTING Specifies whether to print in color if color printing is supported. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
COMDEF System Option	-COMDEF TOP \| CENTER \| BOTTOM <LEFT \| CENTER \| RIGHT> Specifies the location where the SAS Command window is displayed. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
COMPRESS= System Option	COMPRESS= NO \| YES \| CHAR \| BINARY Specifies to compress SPD Engine data sets on disk as they are being created. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
COMPRESS= System Option	COMPRESS=NO \| YES \| CHAR \| BINARY Specifies the type of compression of observations to use for output SAS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CONFIG System Option	-CONFIG file-specification \| –NOCONFIG Specifies the configuration file that is used when initializing or overriding the values of SAS system options. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
CONFIG System Option	-CONFIG file-specification Specifies the configuration file that is used when initializing or overriding the values of SAS system options. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
CONFIG= System Option	CONFIG=file-specification Specifies the configuration file that is used when initializing or overriding the values of SAS system options. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
CONFIG= System Option	CONFIG= file-specification \| NOCONFIG Specifies the configuration file that is used when initializing or overriding the values of SAS system options. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
COPIES= System Option	COPIES= n Specifies the number of copies to print. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CPUCOUNT= System Option	CPUCOUNT= 1 - 1024 \| ACTUAL Specifies the number of processors that the thread-enabled applications should assume will be available for concurrent processing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
CPUID System Option	CPUID \| NOCPUID Specifies whether the CPU identification number is written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DATASTMTCHK= System Option	DATASTMTCHK=COREKEYWORDS \| ALLKEYWORDS \| NONE Specifies which SAS statement keywords are prohibited from being specified as a one-level DATA step name to protect against overwriting an input data set. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DATE System Option	DATE \| NODATE Specifies whether to print the date and time that a SAS program started. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DATESTYLE= System Option	DATESTYLE= MDY \| MYD \| YMD \| YDM \| DMY \| DYM \| LOCALE Specifies the sequence of month, day, and year when ANYDTDTE, ANYDTDTM, or ANYDTTME informat data is ambiguous. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DBCS System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS	-DBCS \| -NODBCS (UNIX and Windows) DBCS \| NODBCS (z/OS) Recognizes double-byte character sets (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
DBCSLANG System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS	-DBCSLANG language (UNIX and Windows) DBCSLANG = language (z/OS) Specifies a double-byte character set (DBCS) language. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
DBCSTYPE System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS	-DBCSTYPE encoding-method (UNIX and Windows) DBCSTYPE = encoding-method (z/OS) Specifies the encoding method to use for a double-byte character set (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
DEFLATION= System Option	DEFLATION=n \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the level of compression for device drivers that support the Deflate compression algorithm. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DEQMULT= System Option	DEQMULT= n Specifies the number of pages to extend a file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
DETACH System Option	DETACH \| NODETACH Specifies that the asynchronous host command uses a detached process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
DETAILS System Option	DETAILS \| NODETAILS Specifies whether to include additional information when files are listed in a SAS library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DEVICE System Option	-DEVICE device-driver-name DEVICE=device-driver-name Specifies a device driver for graphics output for SAS/GRAPH software. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
DEVICE System Option	-DEVICE device-driver-name DEVICE=device-driver-name Specifies a device driver for graphics output for SAS/GRAPH software. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
DEVICE= System Option	DEVICE=device-driver-name Specifies a device driver for graphics output for SAS/GRAPH software. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DEVICE= System Option	DEVICE= device-driver-name Specifies a device driver for graphics output for SAS/GRAPH software. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
DEVICE= System Option	DEVICE= device-driver-specification Specifies the device driver to which SAS/GRAPH sends procedure output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DFLANG= System Option: OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS	DFLANG='language' Specifies the language for international date informats and formats. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
DKRICOND= System Option	DKRICOND=ERROR \| WARN \| WARNING \| NOWARN \| NOWARNING Specifies the level of error detection to report when a variable is missing from an input data set during the processing of a DROP=, KEEP=, or RENAME= data set option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DKROCOND= System Option	DKROCOND=ERROR \| WARN \| WARNING \| NOWARN \| NOWARNING Specifies the level of error detection to report when a variable is missing for an output data set during the processing of a DROP=, KEEP=, or RENAME= data set option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DLDISPCHG System Option	DLDISPCHG= AUTO \| BYREQUEST \| COMPAT91 \| NONE Controls changes in allocation disposition for an existing library data set. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DLDMGACTION= System Option	DLDMGACTION=FAIL \| ABORT \| REPAIR \| NOINDEX \| PROMPT Specifies the type of action to take when a SAS data set or a SAS catalog is detected as damaged. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DLDSNTYPE System Option	DLDSNTYPE= BASIC \| LARGE \| NONE Specifies the default value of the DSNTYPE LIBNAME option for direct access bound libraries in DSORG=PS data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DLEXCPCOUNT System Option	DLEXCPCOUNT \| NODLEXCPCOUNT Reports number of EXCPs to direct access bound SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DLHFSDIRCREATE System Option	DLHFSDIRCREATE \| NODLHFSDIRCREATE Creates a UFS directory for a SAS library that is specified with LIBNAME if the library does not exist. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DLMSGLEVEL= System Option	DLMSGLEVEL=ERROR \| WARN \| INFO \| DIAG Specifies the level of messages to generate for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DLSEQDSNTYPE System Option	DLSEQDSNTYPE= BASIC \| LARGE \| EXTREQ \| EXTPREF \| NONE Specifies the default value of the DSNTYPE LIBNAME option for sequential-access bound libraries on disk. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DLTRUNCHK System Option	DLTRUNCHK \| NODLTRUNCHK Enables checking for SAS library truncation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DMR System Option	DMR \| NODMR Specifies whether to enable SAS to invoke a server session for use with a SAS/CONNECT client. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DMS System Option	DMS \| NODMS Specifies whether to invoke the SAS windowing environment and display the Log, Editor, and Output windows. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DMSEXP System Option	DMSEXP \| NODMSEXP Specifies whether to invoke the SAS windowing environment and display the Explorer, Editor, Log, Output, and Results windows. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DMSLOGSIZE= System Option	DMSLOGSIZE= n \| nK \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum number of rows that the SAS Log window can display. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DMSOUTSIZE= System Option	DMSOUTSIZE= n \| nK \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum number of rows that the SAS Output window can display. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DMSPGMLINESIZE= System Option	DMSPGMLINESIZE= n Specifies the maximum number of characters in a Program Editor line. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DMSSYNCHK System Option	DMSSYNCHK \| NODMSSYNCHK In the SAS windowing environment, specifies whether to enable syntax check mode for DATA step and PROC step processing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DSNFERR System Option	DSNFERR \| NODSNFERR When a SAS data set cannot be found, specifies whether SAS issues an error message. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DSRESV System Option	DSRESV \| NODSRESV Requests exclusive use of shared disk volumes when accessing partitioned data sets on shared disk volumes. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
DTRESET System Option	DTRESET \| NODTRESET Specifies whether to update the date and time in the SAS log and in the procedure output file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DUMP= System Option	DUMP=END_PROC \| FATAL NODUMP Specifies when to create a process dump file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
DUPLEX System Option	DUPLEX\| NODUPLEX Specifies whether duplex (two-sided) printing is enabled. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
DYNALLOC System Option	DYNALLOC \| NODYNALLOC Controls whether SAS or the host sort utility allocates sort work data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ECHO System Option	-ECHO “message” \| -NOECHO Specifies a message to be echoed to the computer. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
ECHO System Option	-ECHO “message” \| -NOECHO Specifies a message to be echoed to the SAS log while initializing SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
ECHO= System Option	ECHO= “message” Specifies a message to be echoed to the SAS log while initializing SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ECHOAUTO System Option	ECHOAUTO \| NOECHOAUTO Specifies whether the statements in the autoexec file are written to the SAS log as they are executed. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EDITCMD System Option	-EDITCMD "host-editor-pathname editor-options" EDITCMD="host-editor-pathname editor-options" Specifies the host editor to be used with the HOSTEDIT command. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
EDITCMD= System Option	EDITCMD= host-editor-pathname editor-options Specifies the host editor to be used with the HOSTEDIT command. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
EMAILAUTHPROTOCOL= System Option	EMAILAUTHPROTOCOL= NONE \| LOGIN Specifies the authentication protocol for SMTP E-mail. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EMAILDLG System Option	-EMAILDLG NATIVE \| SAS Specifies whether to use the native e-mail dialog box provided by your e-mail application or the e-mail dialog box provided by SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
EMAILFROM System Option	EMAILFROM \| NOEMAILFROM When sending e-mail by using SMTP, specifies whether the e-mail option FROM is required in either the FILE or FILENAME statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EMAILHOST= System Option	EMAILHOST= server EMAILHOST=( 'server-1' 'server-2' <…'server-n' > ) Specifies one or more SMTP servers that support e-mail access. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EMAILID= System Option	EMAILID = logonid\| profile\|emailaddress Identifies an e-mail sender by specifying either a logon ID, an e-mail profile, or an e-mail address. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EMAILPORT System Option	EMAILPORT < port-number > Specifies the port that the SMTP server is attached to. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EMAILPW= System Option	EMAILPW= "password" Specifies an e-mail logon password. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EMAILSYS System Option	-EMAILSYS SMTP \| name-of-script EMAILSYS=SMTP \| name-of-script Specifies the e-mail protocol to use for sending electronic mail. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
EMAILSYS System Option	-EMAILSYS MAPI \| VIM \| SMTP Specifies the e-mail protocol to use for sending electronic mail. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
EMAILSYS= System Option	EMAILSYS= interface Specifies the e-mail protocol to use for sending electronic mail. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
EMAILSYS= System Option	EMAILSYS=SMTP \| VMS Specifies the e-mail protocol to use for sending electronic mail. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
ENCODING System Option: OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS	-ENCODING= ASCIIANY \| EBCDICANY \| encoding-value (UNIX and Windows) ENCODING= encoding-value (OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS) Specifies the default character-set encoding for the SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
ENGINE System Option	-ENGINE engine-name Specifies the default access method to use for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
ENGINE System Option	-ENGINE engine-name Specifies the default access method to use for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
ENGINE= System Option	ENGINE=engine-name Specifies the default access method to use for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ENGINE= System Option	ENGINE= engine-name Specifies the default access method to use for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
ENGINE= System Option	ENGINE= engine-name Specifies the default access method for SAS libraries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
ENHANCEDEDITOR System Option	-ENHANCEDEDITOR \| -NOENHANCEDEDITOR Specifies whether to enable the Enhanced Editor during SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
ERRORABEND System Option	ERRORABEND \| NOERRORABEND Specifies whether SAS responds to errors by terminating. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ERRORABEND System Option	ERRORABEND \| NOERRORABEND Specifies whether SAS responds to errors by terminating. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
ERRORBYABEND System Option	ERRORBYABEND \| NOERRORBYABEND Specifies whether SAS ends a program when an error occurs in BY-group processing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
ERRORCHECK= System Option	ERRORCHECK=NORMAL \| STRICT Specifies whether SAS enters syntax-check mode when errors are found in the LIBNAME, FILENAME, %INCLUDE, and LOCK statements. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
ERRORS= System Option	ERRORS= n\| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| MIN\| MAX \| hexX Specifies the maximum number of observations for which SAS issues complete error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
EXPANDLNM System Option	EXPANDLNM \| NOEXPANDLNM Specifies whether concealed logical names are expanded when libref paths are displayed to the user. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
EXPLORER System Option	EXPLORER \| NOEXPLORER Specifies whether to invoke the SAS windowing environment and display only the Explorer window. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FILEAUTHDEFER System Option	FILEAUTHDEFER \| NOFILEAUTHDEFER Controls whether SAS performs file authorization checking for z/OS data sets or defers authorization checking to z/OS system services such as OPEN. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILECC System Option	FILECC \| NOFILECC Specifies whether to treat data in column 1 of a printer file as carriage-control data when reading the file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILECC System Option	FILECC \| NOFILECC Specifies how to treat data in column 1 of a print file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
FILEDEST= System Option	FILEDEST=printer-destination Specifies the default printer destination. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEDEV= System Option	FILEDEV=device-name Specifies the device name used for allocating new physical files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEDIRBLK= System Option	FILEDIRBLK=n Specifies the number of default directory blocks to allocate for new partitioned data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEEXT= System Option	FILEEXT=VERIFY \| IGNORE \| INVALID \| ASIS Specifies how to handle file extensions when accessing members of partitioned data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEFORMS= System Option	FILEFORMS=operating-environment-form Specifies the default SYSOUT form for a print file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILELBI System Option	FILELBI \| NOFILELBI Controls the use of the z/OS Large Block Interface support for BSAM and QSAM files, as well as files on tapes that have standard labels. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILELOCKS System Option	-FILELOCKS setting path \| path setting -FILELOCKS NONE \| FAIL \| CONTINUE \| RESET FILELOCKS=(setting path \| path setting) FILELOCKS=NONE \| FAIL \| CONTINUE \| RESET Specifies whether file locking is turned on or off and what action should be taken if a file cannot be locked. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
FILELOCKS= System Option	FILELOCKS= AUTO \| SHARED FILELOCKS= ( <path> <setting> [ ; <path> <setting> ]... ) Specifies the default SAS system file locking that is to be used for external files (both UFS and native MVS). Also specifies the operating system file locking to be used for UFS files (both SAS files and external files). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILELOCKWAITMAX= System Option	FILELOCKWAITMAX = wait-time Sets an upper limit on the time SAS will wait for a locked file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
FILELOCKWAITMAX= System Option	FILELOCKWAITMAX =wait-time Sets an upper limit on the amount of time that SAS will wait for a locked file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
FILEMOUNT System Option	FILEMOUNT \| NOFILEMOUNT Specifies whether an off-line volume is to be mounted. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEMSGS System Option	FILEMSGS \| NOFILEMSGS Controls whether you receive expanded dynamic allocation error messages when you are assigning a physical file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILENULL System Option	FILENULL \| NOFILENULL Specifies whether zero-length records are written to external files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEPROMPT System Option	FILEPROMPT \| NOFILEPROMPT Controls whether you are prompted if you reference a data set that does not exist. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEREUSE System Option	FILEREUSE \| NOFILEREUSE Specifies whether to reuse an existing allocation for a file that is being allocated to a temporary ddname. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILESEQDSNTYPE System Option	FILESEQDSNTYPE=BASIC \| LARGE \| EXTREQ \| EXTPREF \| NONE Specifies the default value that is assigned to DSNTYPE when it is not specified with a FILENAME statement, a DD statement, or a TSO ALLOC command. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILESPPRI= System Option	FILESPPRI=primary-space-size Specifies the default primary space allocation for new physical files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILESPSEC= System Option	FILESPSEC=secondary-space-size Specifies the default secondary space allocation for new physical files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILESTAT System Option	FILESTAT \| NOFILESTAT Specifies whether ISPF statistics are written. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILESYNC= System Option	FILESYNC= SAS \| CLOSE \| HOST Specifies when operating system buffers that contain contents of permanent SAS files are written to disk. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILESYNC= System Option	FILESYNC= SAS \| CLOSE \| HOST \| SAVE Specifies when operating system buffers that contain contents of permanent SAS files are written to disk. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FILESYSOUT= System Option	FILESYSOUT=sysout-class Specifies the default SYSOUT CLASS for a printer file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILESYSTEM= System Option	FILESYSTEM=MVS \| HFS Specifies the default file system used when the filename is ambiguous. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEUNIT= System Option	FILEUNIT=unit-type Specifies the default unit of allocation for new physical files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILEVOL= System Option	FILEVOL=volser \| (volser-1 . . . volser-n) Specifies which VOLSER to use for new physical files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILSZ System Option	FILSZ \| NOFILSZ Specifies that the host sort utility supports the FILSZ parameter. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FILTERLIST System Option	-FILTERLIST “filter1 \| filter2\|... \| filter-n” Specifies an alternative set of file filter specifications to use for the Open and Save As dialog boxes. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
FIRSTOBS= System Option	FIRSTOBS= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the observation number or external file record that SAS processes first. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FMTERR System Option	FMTERR \| NOFMTERR When a variable format cannot be found, specifies whether SAS generates an error or continues processing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FMTSEARCH System Option	-FMTSEARCH (catalog-specification-1... catalog-specification-n) FMTSEARCH=(catalog-specification-1... catalog-specification-n) Specifies the order in which format catalogs are searched. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
FMTSEARCH= System Option	FMTSEARCH=(catalog-specification–1 catalog-specification–2 . . . catalog-specification-n) Controls the order in which format catalogs are searched. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
FMTSEARCH= System Option	FMTSEARCH=(catalog-specification-1... catalog-specification-n) Specifies the order in which format catalogs are searched. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FONT System Option	-FONT “font-name” <BOLD \| NORMAL> <REGULAR \| ITALIC> < font-size > < character-set > FONT=“font-name” <BOLD \| NORMAL> <REGULAR \| ITALIC> < font-size > < character-set > Specifies a font to use for SAS windows. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
FONTALIAS System Option	-FONTALIAS “SAS-font” “host-specific-font” Assigns a Windows font to one of the SAS fonts. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
FONTEMBEDDING System Option	FONTEMBEDDING \| NOFONTEMBEDDING Specifies whether font embedding is enabled in Universal Printer and SAS/GRAPH printing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FONTRENDERING= System Option	FONTRENDERING=HOST_PIXELS \| FREETYPE_POINTS Specifies whether SAS/GRAPH devices that are based on the SASGDGIF, SASGDTIF, and SASGDIMG modules render fonts by using the operating system or by using the FreeType engine. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FONTSLOC System Option	-FONTSLOC "directory-specification" Specifies the location of the SAS fonts that are loaded during the SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
FONTSLOC System Option	-FONTSLOC directory-specification Specifies the location of the SAS fonts that are loaded during the SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
FONTSLOC= System Option	FONTSLOC=high level qualifier(s) \| HFS directory path Specifies the location of the SAS fonts that are loaded during the SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FONTSLOC= System Option	FONTSLOC = "directory-specification" Specifies the location of the SAS fonts that are loaded during the SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
FONTSLOC= System Option	FONTSLOC= “location” Specifies the location of the fonts that are supplied by SAS; names the default font file location for registering fonts that use the FONTREG procedure. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FORMCHAR System Option	-FORMCHAR “formatting-characters” FORMCHAR=“formatting-characters” Specifies the default output formatting characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
FORMCHAR= System Option	FORMCHAR= 'formatting-characters' Specifies the default output formatting characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FORMDLIM= System Option	FORMDLIM= 'delimiting-character' Specifies a character to delimit page breaks in SAS output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FORMS= System Option	FORMS= form-name If forms are used for printing, specifies the default form to use. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
FSBCOLOR System Option	FSBCOLOR \| NOFSBCOLOR Specifies whether you can set background colors in SAS windows on vector graphics devices. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FSBORDER= System Option	FSBORDER=BEST \| PS \| APL \| NONE Specifies what type of symbols are to be used in borders. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FSDBTYPE System Option: UNIX	-FSDBTYPE encoding-method Specifies a full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS) encoding method. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
FSDEVICE= System Option	FSDEVICE=device-name Specifies the full-screen device driver for your terminal. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FSIMM System Option: UNIX	-FSIMM fsdevice_name=IMM-name1 <, fsdevice_name=IMM-name2 > ... Specifies input method modules (IMMs) for full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
FSIMMOPT System Option: UNIX	-FSIMMOPT fullscreen-IMM:IMM-option Specifies options for input method modules (IMMs) that are used with a full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
FSMODE= System Option	FSMODE=data-stream-type Specifies the full-screen data stream type. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FULLSTATS System Option	FULLSTATS \| NOFULLSTATS Specifies whether to write all available system performance statistics to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
FULLSTIMER System Option	-FULLSTIMER \| -NOFULLSTIMER FULLSTIMER \| NOFULLSTIMER Specifies whether to write all available system performance statistics and the datetime stamp to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
FULLSTIMER System Option	FULLSTIMER \| NOFULLSTIMER Specifies whether to write all available system performance statistics to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
FULLSTIMER System Option	-FULLSTIMER \| -NOFULLSTIMER FULLSTIMER \| NOFULLSTIMER Specifies whether to write all available system performance statistics to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
GHFONT= System Option	GHFONT=font-specification Specifies the default graphics hardware font. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
GSFCC= System Option	GSFCC=CR \| PRINT \| NONE Tells SAS what type of carriage control to use for writing to graphics stream files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
GSTYLE System Option	GSTYLE \| NOGSTYLE Specifies whether ODS styles can be used in the generation of graphs that are stored as GRSEG catalog entries. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
GWINDOW System Option	GWINDOW \| NOGWINDOW Specifies whether SAS displays SAS/GRAPH output in the GRAPH window. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
HELPBROWSER= System Option	HELPBROWSER=REMOTE \| SAS Specifies the browser to use for SAS Help and ODS output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
HELPCASE System Option	HELPCASE \| NOHELPCASE Controls how text is displayed in the help browser. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HELPENCMD System Option	HELPENCMD \| NOHELPENCMD Specifies whether SAS uses the English version or the translated version of the keyword list for the command–line Help. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
HELPHOST System Option	HELPHOST=host Specifies the name of the computer where the remote help browser is running. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HELPHOST System Option	HELPHOST="host" Specifies the name of the local computer where the remote browsing system is running. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
HELPHOST System Option	HELPHOST="host" Specifies the name of the computer where the remote browser is to send Help and ODS output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
HELPINDEX System Option	-HELPINDEX index-pathname-1 < index-pathname-2 < index-pathname-3 > > Specifies one or more index files for the online SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
HELPINDEX System Option	-HELPINDEX <(> “index-pathname-1” < “ index-pathname-2” “ index-pathname-n”)> Specifies one or more index files for the SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
HELPINDEX= System Option	HELPINDEX= index-pathname-1 < index-pathname-2 < index-pathname-3 > > Specifies one or more index files for the online SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
HELPLOC System Option	-HELPLOC (pathname<,pathname-2...,pathname-n>) Specifies the location of the text and index files for the facility that is used to view the online SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
HELPLOC System Option	-HELPLOC <(> "pathname-1" <"pathname-2" "pathname-n")> Specifies the location of Help files that are used to view SAS Help and Documentation using Microsoft HTML Help. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
HELPLOC= System Option	HELPLOC=<(>location-1<,location-2,...,location-n><)> Specifies the location of the text and index files for the facility that is used to view SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HELPLOC= System Option	HELPLOC= pathname <,pathname-2,...,pathname-n > Specifies the location of the text and index files for the facility that is used to view the online SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
HELPPORT= System Option	HELPPORT=port-number Specifies the port number for the remote browser client. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
HELPREGISTER System Option	-HELPREGISTER “menu string” help file location <“help string”> < topic > <CHM \| HLP \| HTML> Registers help files to access from the main SAS window Help menu. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
HELPTOC System Option	-HELPTOC TOC-pathname-1 < TOC-pathname-2 < TOC-pathname-3 > > Specifies the table of contents files for the online SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
HELPTOC System Option	-HELPTOC <(> “TOC-pathname-1” <“TOC-pathname-2” “ TOC-pathname-3”)> Specifies the table of contents files for the SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
HELPTOC= System Option	HELPTOC= TOC-pathname-1 < TOC-pathname-2 < TOC-pathname-3 > > Specifies the table of contents files for the online SAS Help and Documentation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
HOSTPRINT System Option	-HOSTPRINT \| -NOHOSTPRINT HOSTPRINT \| NOHOSTPRINT Specifies that the Windows Print Manager is to be used for printing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
HSLXTNTS= System Option	HSLXTNTS=value Specifies the size of each physical hiperspace that is created for a SAS library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HSMAXPGS= System Option	HSMAXPGS=value Specifies the maximum number of hiperspace pages allowed in a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HSMAXSPC= System Option	HSMAXSPC=value Specifies the maximum number of hiperspaces allowed in a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HSSAVE System Option	HSSAVE \| NOHSSAVE Controls how often the DIV data set pages are updated when a DIV data set backs a hiperspace library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HSWORK System Option	HSWORK \| NOHSWORK Tells SAS to place the WORK library in a hiperspace. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
HTTPSERVERPORTMAX= System Option	HTTPSERVERPORTMAX= max-port-number Specifies the highest port number that can be used by the SAS HTTP server for remote browsing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
HTTPSERVERPORTMIN= System Option	HTTPSERVERPORTMIN= min-port-number Specifies the lowest port number that can be used by the SAS HTTP server for remote browsing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
IBUFNO= System Option	IBUFNO= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \|hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies an optional number of extra buffers to be allocated for navigating an index file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
IBUFSIZE= System Option	IBUFSIZE= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MAX Specifies the buffer page size for an index file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
ICON System Option	-ICON \| -NOICON ICON \| NOICON Minimizes the SAS window. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
IMPLMAC System Option	IMPLMAC \| NOIMPLMAC Controls statement-style macro invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
INITCMD System Option	INITCMD "command-1 < windowing-command-n > " Specifies an application invocation command and optional SAS windowing environment or text editor commands that SAS executes before processing AUTOEXEC file during SAS invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
INITSTMT System Option	INITSTMT `statement' Specifies a SAS statement to be executed after any statements in the autoexec file and before any statements from the SYSIN= file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
INITSTMT= System Option	INITSTMT=“statement(s)” IS=“statement(s)” Specifies a SAS statement that is to be executed after any statements in the autoexec file and before any statements from the SYSIN file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
INITSTMT= System Option	INITSTMT= 'statement' Specifies a SAS statement to execute after any statements in the autoexec file and before any statements from the SYSIN= file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
INSERT System Option	-INSERT system-option new-option-value Used when SAS starts; inserts the specified value at the beginning of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
INSERT System Option	-INSERT system-option argument Used when SAS starts, inserts the specified value at the beginning of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
INSERT= System Option	INSERT=(system-option=new-option-value) Used when SAS starts, inserts the specified value at the beginning of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
INSERT= System Option	INSERT=(system-option-1=argument-1 system-option-n=argument-n) Inserts the specified value as the first value of the specified system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
INTERVALDS= System Option	INTERVALDS=(interval-1=libref.dataset-name-1 < interval-n=libref.dataset-name-n > ) Specifies one or more interval name and value pairs, where the value is a SAS data set that contains user-supplied holidays. The interval can be used as an argument to the INTNX and INTCK functions. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
INVALIDDATA= System Option	INVALIDDATA='character' Specifies the value that SAS assigns to a variable when invalid numeric data is encountered. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
ISPCAPS System Option	ISPCAPS \| NOISPCAPS Specifies whether to convert to uppercase printable ISPF parameters that are used in CALL ISPEXEC and CALL ISPLINK. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPCHARF System Option	ISPCHARF \| NOISPCHARF Specifies whether the values of SAS character variables are converted using their automatically specified informats or formats each time they are used as ISPF variables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPCSR= System Option	ISPCSR=variable-name Tells SAS to set an ISPF variable to the name of a variable whose value is found to be invalid. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPEXECV= System Option	ISPEXECV=variable-name Specifies the name of an ISPF variable that passes its value to an ISPF service. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPMISS= System Option	ISPMISS=value Specifies the value assigned to SAS character variables defined to ISPF when the associated ISPF variable has a length of zero. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPMSG= System Option	ISPMSG=variable-name Tells SAS to set an ISPF variable to a message ID when a variable is found to be invalid. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPNOTES System Option	ISPNOTES \| NOISPNOTES Specifies whether ISPF error messages are to be written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPNZTRC System Option	ISPNZTRC \| NOISPNZTRC Specifies whether nonzero ISPF service return codes are to be written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPPT System Option	ISPPT \| NOISPPT Specifies whether ISPF parameter value pointers and lengths are to be written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPTRACE System Option	ISPTRACE \| NOISPTRACE Specifies whether the parameter lists and service return codes are to be written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVDEFA System Option	ISPVDEFA \| NOISPVDEFA Specifies whether all current SAS variables are to be identified to ISPF via the SAS VDEFINE user exit. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVDLT System Option	ISPVDLT \| NOISPVDLT Specifies whether VDELETE is executed before each SAS variable is identified to ISPF via VDEFINE. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVDTRC System Option	ISPVDTRC \| NOISPVDTRC Specifies whether to trace every VDEFINE for SAS variables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVIMSG= System Option	ISPVIMSG=message-ID Specifies the ISPF message ID that is to be set by the SAS VDEFINE user exit when the informat for a variable returns a nonzero return code. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVRMSG= System Option	ISPVRMSG=message-ID Specifies the ISPF message ID that is to be set by the SAS VDEFINE user exit when a variable has a null value. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVTMSG= System Option	ISPVTMSG=message-ID Specifies the ISPF message ID that is to be displayed by the SAS VDEFINE user exit when the ISPVTRAP option is in effect. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVTNAM= System Option	ISPVTNAM=variable-name Restricts the information that is displayed by the ISPVTRAP option to the specified variable only. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVTPNL= System Option	ISPVTPNL=panel Specifies the name of the ISPF panel that is to be displayed by the SAS VDEFINE user exit when the ISPVTRAP option is in effect. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVTRAP System Option	ISPVTRAP \| NOISPVTRAP Specifies whether the SAS VDEFINE user exit is to write information to the SAS log (for debugging purposes) each time it is entered. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
ISPVTVARS= System Option	ISPVTVARS=prefix Specifies the prefix for the ISPF variables to be set by the SAS VDEFINE user exit when the ISPVTRAP option is in effect. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
JPEGQUALITY= System Option	JPEGQUALITY= n \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the JPEG quality factor that determines the ratio of image quality to the level of compression for JPEG files produced by the SAS/GRAPH JPEG device driver. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
JREOPTIONS System Option	-JREOPTIONS (-JRE-option-1 <-JRE-option-n > ) Identifies the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) options for SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
JREOPTIONS System Option	-JREOPTIONS (-JRE-option-1 <-JRE-option-n > ) JREOPTIONS (-JRE-option-1 <-JRE-option-n > ) Identifies Java Runtime Environment (JRE) options for SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
JREOPTIONS= System Option	JREOPTIONS= (-JRE-option-1 < -JRE-option-n > ) Identifies the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) options for SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
JREOPTIONS= System Option	JREOPTIONS=“(-JRE-option-1 <-JRE-option-n > )” Identifies the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) options for SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
LABEL System Option	LABEL \| NOLABEL Specifies whether SAS procedures can use labels with variables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
LEFTMARGIN= System Option	LEFTMARGIN= margin-size<margin-unit> Specifies the print margin for the left side of the page. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
LINESIZE System Option	-LINESIZE n \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX LINESIZE=n \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the line size of the SAS Log and Output windows. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
LINESIZE System Option	-LINESIZE n \| MIN \| MAX LINESIZE=n \| MIN\| MAX Specifies the line size of SAS Log and Output windows. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
LINESIZE= System Option	LINESIZE=n \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the line size of SAS Log and Output windows. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
LINESIZE= System Option	LINESIZE= n \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the line size of the SAS Log and Output windows. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
LINESIZE= System Option	LINESIZE= n \| MIN \| MAX \| hexX Specifies the line size for the SAS log and for SAS procedure output. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
LOADLIST= System Option	LOADLIST= file-specification NOLOADLIST Specifies whether to print to the specified file the information about images that SAS has loaded into memory. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
LOADMEMSIZE System Option	-LOADMEMSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies a suggested amount of memory needed for executable programs loaded by SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
LOCALE System Option	-LOCALE locale-name (UNIX and Windows) LOCALE=locale-name (UNIX, Windows, and z/OS) Specifies a set of attributes in a SAS session that reflect the language, local conventions, and culture for a geographical region. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
LOCALELANGCHG System Option	LOCALELANGCHG \| NOLOCALELANGCHG Determines whether the language of the text of the ODS output can be changed Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support: Reference Guide
LOG System Option	-LOG file-specification \| -NOLOG Specifies a destination for the SAS log when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
LOG System Option	-LOG “destination” \| -NOLOG Specifies a destination for a copy of the SAS log when SAS is running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
LOG= System Option	LOG=< file-specification > NOLOG Specifies a destination for a copy of the SAS log when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
LOG= System Option	LOG= destination NOLOG Specifies a destination for a copy of the SAS log when running in batch mode. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
LOGAPPLNAME= System Option	LOGAPPLNAME= name Specifies a SAS session name for SAS logging. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Logging: Configuration and Programming Reference
LOGCONFIGLOC= System Option	LOGCONFIGLOC=file-specification Specifies the name of the XML configuration file that is used to initialize the SAS logging facility. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Logging: Configuration and Programming Reference
LOGMULTREAD System Option	LOGMULTREAD \| NOLOGMULTREAD Specifies the session log file to be opened for shared READ access. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
LOGPARM= System Option	LOGPARM= “<= APPEND \| REPLACE \| REPLACEOLD> <= AUTO \| NONE \| SESSION \| n \| nK \| nM \| nG> <= BUFFERED \| IMMEDIATE> ” Controls when SAS log files are opened, closed, and, in conjunction with the LOG= system option, how they are named. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
LOGPARM= System Option	LOGPARM= “<= APPEND \| REPLACE \| REPLACEOLD> <= AUTO \| NONE \| SESSION> <= BUFFERED \| IMMEDIATE> ” Controls when SAS log files are opened, closed, and, with the LOG= system option, how they are named. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
LOGPARM= System Option	LOGPARM= “<= APPEND \| REPLACE \| REPLACEOLD> <= AUTO \| NONE \| SESSION \| n \| nK \| nM \| nG> <= BUFFERED \| IMMEDIATE> ” Specifies when SAS log files are opened, closed, and, in conjunction with the LOG= system option, how they are named. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
LPTYPE System Option	-LPTYPE BSD \| SYSV LPTYPE=BSD \| SYSV Specifies which UNIX command and options settings will be used to route files to the printer. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
LRECL= System Option	LRECL=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the default logical record length to use for reading and writing external files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
LRECL= System Option	LRECL=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the default logical record length to use for reading and writing external files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
MACRO System Option	MACRO \| NOMACRO Controls whether the SAS macro language is available. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MAPS System Option	-MAPS location-of-maps MAPS=location-of-maps Specifies the name of the SAS library containing the SAS/GRAPH map data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
MAPS System Option	-MAPS location-of-maps MAPS=location-of-maps Specifies the name of the SAS library that holds the SAS/GRAPH map data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MAPS= System Option	MAPS= location-of-maps Specifies the name of the SAS library that holds the SAS/GRAPH map data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
MAPS= System Option	MAPS= location-of-maps Specifies the location of the SAS library that contains SAS/GRAPH map data sets. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
MAUTOLOCDISPLAY System Option	MAUTOLOCDISPLAY \| NOMAUTOLOCDISPLAY Specifies whether to display the source location of the autocall macros in the log when the autocall macro is invoked. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MAUTOSOURCE System Option	MAUTOSOURCE \| NOMAUTOSOURCE Specifies whether the autocall feature is available. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MAXMEMQUERY System Option	-MAXMEMQUERY n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX MAXMEMQUERY=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum amount of memory that is allocated per request for certain procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
MAXMEMQUERY System Option	-MAXMEMQUERY n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX MAXMEMQUERY= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the limit on the maximum amount of memory that is allocated for procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MAXSEGRATIO= System Option	MAXSEGRATIO= n Controls what percentage of index segments to identify as candidate segments before processing the WHERE expression. This occurs when evaluating a WHERE expression that contains indexed variables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
MCOMPILE System Option	MCOMPILE \| NOMCOMPILE Specifies whether to allow new definitions of macros. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MCOMPILENOTE System Option	MCOMPILENOTE=<NONE \| NOAUTOCALL \| ALL> Issues a NOTE to the SAS log. The note contains the size and number of instructions upon the completion of the compilation of a macro. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MEMBLKSZ System Option	-MEMBLKSZ n \| nK \| nM \|nG \| nT \| hexX Specifies the memory block size for memory-based libraries for Windows operating environments. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MEMCACHE System Option	-MEMCACHE 0 \| 1 \| 4 MEMCACHE= 0 \| 1 \| 4 Specifies to use the memory-based libraries as a SAS file cache. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MEMLEAVE= System Option	MEMLEAVE=n \| nK \| nM \| MIN \| hexX Specifies the amount of memory in the user's region that is reserved exclusively for the use of the operating environment. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MEMLIB System Option	-MEMLIB \| -NOMEMLIB Specifies to process the Work library as a memory-based library. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MEMMAXSZ System Option	-MEMMAXSZ n \| nK \| nM \|nG \| nT \| hexX Specifies the maximum amount of memory to allocate for using memory-based libraries in Windows operating environments. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MEMRPT System Option	MEMRPT \| NOMEMRPT Specifies whether memory usage statistics are to be written to the SAS log for each step. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MEMSIZE System Option	-MEMSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MAX Specifies the limit on the total amount of virtual memory that can be used by a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
MEMSIZE System Option	-MEMSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \|hexX \| MAX Specifies the limit on the amount of virtual memory that can be used during a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MEMSIZE= System Option	MEMSIZE=n \| n K \| n M \| n G \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the limit on the total amount of memory that can be used by a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MEMSIZE= System Option	MEMSIZE= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the limit on the total amount of memory that can be used by a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
MERGENOBY System Option	MERGENOBY= NOWARN \|WARN \| ERROR Specifies the type of message that is issued when MERGE processing occurs without an associated BY statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
MERROR System Option	MERROR \| NOMERROR Specifies whether the macro processor issues a warning message when a macro reference cannot be resolved. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
METAAUTORESOURCES System Option	METAAUTORESOURCES server-object Identifies the metadata resources that are assigned when SAS starts. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METACONNECT= System Option	METACONNECT="named-connection" Identifies one named profile from the metadata user connection profiles for connecting to the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAENCRYPTALG System Option	METAENCRYPTALG NONE \| RC2 \| RC4 \| DES \| TRIPLEDES \| SASPROPRIETARY \| SAS Specifies the type of encryption to use when communicating with the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAENCRYPTLEVEL System Option	METAENCRYPTLEVEL EVERYTHING \| CREDENTIALS Specifies the level of encryption when communicating with the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAPASS= System Option	METAPASS= password Specifies the password for the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAPORT= System Option	METAPORT= number Specifies the TCP port for the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAPROFILE System Option	METAPROFILE "XML-document" Identifies the XML document that contains user connection profiles for the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAPROFILE= System Option	METAPROFILE= “XML-document” Identifies the file that contains the SAS Metadata Server user profiles. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
METAPROTOCOL= System Option	METAPROTOCOL=BRIDGE Specifies the network protocol for connecting to the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAREPOSITORY= System Option	METAREPOSITORY= name Specifies the SAS Metadata Repository to use with the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METASERVER= System Option	METASERVER= address Specifies the host name or address of the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METASPN= System Option	METASPN= SPN-name Specifies the service principal name (SPN) for the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
METAUSER= System Option	METAUSER= ID Specifies the user ID for connecting to the metadata server. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata
MEXECNOTE System Option	MEXECNOTE \| NOMEXECNOTE Specifies whether to display macro execution information in the SAS log at macro invocation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MEXECSIZE System Option	MEXECSIZE=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum macro size that can be executed in memory. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MFILE System Option	MFILE \| NOMFILE Specifies whether MPRINT output is routed to an external file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MINDELIMITER= System Option	MINDELIMITER=<”option”> Specifies the character to be used as the delimiter for the macro IN operator. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MINOPERATOR System Option	MINOPERATOR \| NOMINOPERATOR Controls whether the macro processor recognizes and evaluates the IN (#) logical operator. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MINPARTSIZE= System Option	MINPARTSIZE= n \| nK \| nM \| nG Specifies the minimum size that the data component partitions can be. The value is specified when the SPD Engine data set is created. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
MINSTG System Option	MINSTG \| NOMINSTG Tells SAS whether to minimize its use of storage. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MISSING= System Option	MISSING=<'>character<'> Specifies the character to print for missing numeric values. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
MLOGIC System Option	MLOGIC \| NOMLOGIC Specifies whether the macro processor traces its execution for debugging. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MLOGICNEST System Option	MLOGICNEST \| NOMLOGICNEST Specifies whether to display the macro nesting information in the MLOGIC output in the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MPRINT System Option	MPRINT \| NOMPRINT Specifies whether SAS statements generated by macro execution are traced for debugging. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MPRINTNEST System Option	MPRINTNEST \| NOMPRINTNEST Specifies whether to display the macro nesting information in the MPRINT output in the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MRECALL System Option	MRECALL \| NOMRECALL Specifies whether autocall libraries are searched for a member that was not found during an earlier search. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MREPLACE System Option	MREPLACE \| NOMREPLACE Specifies whether to enable existing macros to be redefined. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MSG System Option	-MSG pathname -MSG ('pathname' 'pathname' ...) Specifies the library that contains the SAS error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
MSG System Option	-MSG library-specification Specifies the library that contains the SAS error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MSG= System Option	MSG=file-specification-1 \| (file-specification-1 . . . file-specification-n) Specifies the library that contains the SAS error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MSG= System Option	MSG= library-specification Specifies the library that contains the SAS error messages. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
MSGCASE System Option	MSGCASE \| NOMSGCASE Specifies whether notes, warnings, and error messages that are generated by SAS are displayed in uppercase characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MSGCASE System Option	-MSGCASE \| -NOMSGCASE Specifies whether notes, warnings, and error messages that are generated by SAS are displayed in uppercase characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
MSGCASE System Option	MSGCASE \| NOMSGCASE Specifies whether notes, warnings, and error messages that are generated by SAS are displayed in uppercase characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
MSGCASE System Option	-MSGCASE \| -NOMSGCASE Specifies whether notes, warnings, and error messages that are generated by SAS are displayed in uppercase characters. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MSGLEVEL= System Option	MSGLEVEL= N \| I Specifies the level of detail in messages that are written to the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
MSGSIZE= System Option	MSGSIZE=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| MIN \| MAX \| hexX Specifies the size of the message cache. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MSTORED System Option	MSTORED \| NOMSTORED Specifies whether the macro facility searches a specific catalog for a stored compiled macro. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MSYMTABMAX System Option	-MSYMTABMAX n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX MSYMTABMAX=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum amount of memory available to the macro variable symbol tables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments
MSYMTABMAX System Option	-MSYMTABMAX n \| nK \| nM \| nG \|nT \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX MSYMTABMAX=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| nT \|hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum amount of memory available to the macro variable symbol table(s). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for Windows
MSYMTABMAX= System Option	MSYMTABMAX=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum amount of memory available to the macro variable symbol tables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for z/OS
MSYMTABMAX= System Option	MSYMTABMAX= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum amount of memory that is available to the macro variable symbol table(s). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers
MSYMTABMAX= System Option	MSYMTABMAX= n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| MAX Specifies the maximum amount of memory available to the macro variable symbol table or tables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
MULTENVAPPL System Option	MULTENVAPPL \| NOMULTENVAPPL Specifies whether the fonts available in a SAS application font selector window lists only the SAS fonts that are available in all operating environments. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
MVARSIZE System Option	-MVARSIZE n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX MVARSIZE=n \| nK \| nM \| nG \| hexX \| MIN \| MAX Specifies the maximum size for in-memory macro variables. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Companion for the UNIX Environments

SAS(R) 9.2 Language Reference by Name, Product, and Category

System Options Syntax Sorted by Product

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