| System Options under z/OS |
Specifies whether SAS responds to errors by terminating.
| Valid in: |
configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS
statement, SAS System Options window
|
| Alias: |
ERRABEND | NOERRABEND
|
| Category: |
Environment control: Error handling
|
| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
ERRORHANDLING
|
|
ERRORABEND | NOERRORABEND
|
- ERRORABEND
-
specifies that SAS terminate for most errors (including
syntax errors and file not found errors) that normally cause it to issue an
error message, set OBS=0, and go into syntax-check mode (if syntax checking
is enabled). SAS also terminates if an error occurs in any global statement
other than the LIBNAME and FILENAME statements.
Use the ERRORABEND system option with SAS production programs, which
presumably should not encounter any errors. If errors are encountered and
ERRORABEND is in effect, SAS brings the errors to your attention immediately
by terminating. ERRORABEND does not affect how SAS handles notes such as invalid
data messages.
- NOERRORABEND
-
specifies that SAS handle errors normally, that is, issue
an error message, set OBS=0, and go into syntax-check mode (if syntax checking
is enabled).
If a SAS session abends when it is processing an ABORT
statement, SAS uses the normal termination disposition when it deallocates
any z/OS data set that SAS dynamically allocated during the session as a part
of FILENAME or LIBNAME processing. For more information, see the description
of the DISP option for FILENAME Statement: z/OS or
LIBNAME Statement: z/OS.
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