Specifies the number of buffers to be allocated for processing SAS data sets.
| Valid in: | configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window |
| Category: | Files: SAS Files |
| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= | SASFILES |
| Supports: | SAS data set |
specifies the number
of buffers to be allocated in multiples of 1 (bytes); 1,024 (kilobytes);
1,048,576 (megabytes); 1,073,741,824 (gigabytes); or 1,099,511,627,776
(terabytes). For example, a value of 8 specifies
8 bytes, and a value of 3m specifies
3,145,728 bytes.
specifies the number
of buffers as a hexadecimal value. You must specify the value beginning
with a number (0–9), followed by an X. For example, the value 2dx specifies
45 buffers.
sets the minimum number of buffers to 0, which causes SAS to use the minimum optimal value for the operating environment. This is the default.
sets the number of buffers to the maximum possible number in your operating environment, up to the largest four-byte, signed integer, which is 231-1, or approximately 2 billion.