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