System Options under z/OS

SORTPARM= System Option: z/OS

Specifies parameters for the host sort utility.

Default:	none
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, OPTIONS window
Category:	Sort: SORT
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	SORT
z/OS specifics:	all

Syntax
Details

Syntax

SORTPARM='string'

string: is a string of parameters. It can contain up to 255 characters. Single quotation marks are required if the string contains blanks or special characters.

Details

The parameters that you specify are appended to the OPTIONS statement that is generated by the SAS host sort interface. This capacity enables you to specify options that are unique to the particular sort utility that you are using. The sort utility must accept a 31-bit parameter list and an OPTIONS statement. Otherwise, this option is ignored.

Note: Options that you specify with the SORTPARM option are not passed to the sort program as parameters. [cautionend]

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