System Options under z/OS

SASHELP= System Option: z/OS

Specifies the location of the SASHELP SAS library.

Default:	SASHELP
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation
Category:	Environment Control: ENVFILES
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	ENVFILES
z/OS specifics:	library-specification
See:	SASHELP= System Option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Syntax
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Syntax

SASHELP=library-specification | (library-specification-1 . . . library-specification-n)

library-specification

is the same as the library-specification described for the LIBNAME statement for z/OS.

You can specify one or more libraries. They are searched in the order in which they are listed.

Details

If the SASHELP= option is not specified, then the value SASHELP is used.

Note: If a ddname is supplied as a library-specification, then the ddname must refer to a single z/OS data set or UFS directory rather than to an externally allocated concatenation of data sets. [cautionend]

The following example shows one way to assign a list of library specifications to SASHELP:

SASHELP=(UPDATE 'MVS:ORIGINAL.SASHELP')

The first library specification UPDATE refers to a ddname that must be allocated external to SAS. The second library specification refers to the z/OS data set ORIGINAL.SASHELP. The file system prefix 'MVS:' is specified to distinguish this specification from a UFS path. If the system option FILESYSTEM=HFS is in effect, then SAS assumes that ORIGINAL.SASHELP refers to a UFS directory in the current USS working directory.