Specifies the permanent buffer page size for output 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 page
size 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 page
size as a hexadecimal value. You must specify the value beginning
with a number (0–9), followed by an X. For example, the value 2dx
sets
the page size to 45 bytes.
sets the page size 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 bytes.