Properties

The SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit uses properties files to set default preferences for each process. Properties are name-value pairs that are translated into SAS global macro variables. These macro variables are available for the duration of a SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit process. Properties can be defined in any number of files. Both text file and SAS data set formats are supported. All SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit global macro variables are documented in Global Macro Variables. These macro variables are derived from properties files provided by SAS.

This table describes the contents of a sample properties file in <global standards library directory/standards/cst-framework/programs/initialize.properties. Each property (global macro variable) is described in Global Macro Variables.

Properties File Structure

Name (Global Macro Variable)	Default Value
_cstDebug	0
_cstDebugOptions	mprint mlogic symbolgen mautolocdisplay
_cst_rc	0
_cst_MsgID
_cst_MsgParm1
_cst_MsgParm2
_cstResultSeq	0
_cstSeqCnt	0
_cstSrcData
_cstResultFlag	0
_cstResultsDS	work._cstresults
_cstMessages	work._cstmessages
_cstReallocateSASRefs	0
_cstFMTLibraries
_cstMessageOrder	APPEND
_cstSASRefsLoc
_cstSASRefsName
_cstSASRefs	work._cstsasrefs