| System Options under z/OS |
Specifies a prefix for partially qualified physical
filenames.
| Default: |
user profile prefix for interactive, user ID
for batch
|
| Valid in: |
configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS
statement, OPTIONS window
|
| Category: |
File Control: EXTFILES
|
| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
EXTFILES
|
| z/OS specifics: |
all
|
The SYSPREF= option specifies a prefix
to be used in constructing a fully qualified physical filename from a partially
qualified name. Wherever a physical name must be entered in quotation marks
in SAS statements or in SAS windowing environment commands, you can enter
a data set name in the form '.rest-of-name',
and SAS inserts the value of the SYSPREF= option in front of the first period.
Unlike the user profile prefix, the SYSPREF= option
can have more than one qualifier in its name. If, for example, SYSPREF=SAS.TEST,
then '.SASDATA' is interpreted as 'SAS.TEST.SASDATA'. The maximum length of prefix is 42 characters.
If no value is specified for SYSPREF=,
then SAS uses
the user profile prefix (in the interactive environment) or the user ID (in
batch).
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