Previous Page | Next Page

Statements under z/OS

ATTRIB Statement: z/OS



Associates a format, informat, label, length, or any combination of these attributes, with one or more variables.
Valid: in a DATA step
z/OS specifics: LENGTH= specification in attribute-list
See: ATTRIB Statement in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Syntax
Details

Syntax

ATTRIB variable-list-1 attribute-list-1 <...variable-list-n attribute-list-n>;


Details

LENGTH=<$> length is one of the attributes that can be specified in the attribute-list. The LENGTH= attribute specifies the length of variables in the variable-list. Under z/OS, numeric variables can range from 2 to 8 bytes in length, and character variables can range from 1 to 32,767 bytes in length.

Previous Page | Next Page | Top of Page