Specifies the minimum partition size to use when creating SPD Engine data sets.
Valid in: | Configuration file, SAS invocation |
Category: | System administration: Performance |
Default: | 16M |
Engine: | SPD Engine only |
is the size of the partition in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes. The maximum value for the minimum partition size is 2GB–1 or 2047 megabytes.
Restriction | This restriction applies only to 32-bit hosts with the
following operating systems: z/OS, Linux SLES 9 x86, and the Windows
family. If you create a data set with a partition size greater than
or equal to 2 gigabytes, you cannot open the data set with any version
of SPD Engine prior to SAS 9.2. The following error message is written
to the SAS log: ERROR: Unable to open data file because
its data representation differs from the SAS session data representation. |