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System Options under UNIX

Summary of All SAS System Options in UNIX Environments

The following table lists every SAS system option available under UNIX. Many of these options have no host-specific behavior and are described in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. If an option is available only under UNIX, it is described in this documentation. If an option is available under all environments, but has some environment-specific behavior, it is described in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary and this documentation. Use the following legend to know how to locate more information about an option:

Access

SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference

Comp

indicates that the option is completely described in this section

Conn

SAS/CONNECT User's Guide

DQ

SAS Data Quality Server: Reference

DST

Encryption in SAS

ARM

SAS Interface to Application Response Measurement (ARM): Reference

LR

SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Macro

SAS Macro Language: Reference

NLS

SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide

SAS/SHARE

SAS/SHARE User's Guide

SPDE

SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference

Web

indicates that the option is described in documentation on the SAS Web site (support.sas.com)

The table also shows the default value for each option and where you can specify the option:

Summary of All SAS System Options


Can Be Specified In
Name Default SAS Invocation, SASV9_OPTIONS, Configuration File OPTIONS Statement SAS System Options Window See
ALTLOG NOALTLOG X

Comp
ALTPRINT NOALTPRINT X

Comp
APPEND none X X

Comp

/LR

APPLETLOC= none X X X LR
ARMAGENT= none X X X ARM
ARMLOC= ARMLOC.LOG X X X


ARM

ARMSUBSYS= ARM_NONE X X X ARM
AUTHPROVIDERDOMAIN NULL X

LR/Comp
AUTOEXEC see description X

Comp
AUTOSAVELOC= none X X X Comp/LR
AUTOSIGNON NOAUTOSIGNON X X X Conn
BINDING= DEFAULT X X X LR
BLKSIZE 256 X X X LR
BOTTOMMARGIN= 0.000 X X X LR
BUFNO= 1 X X X Comp/LR
BUFSIZE= 0 X X X Comp/LR
BYERR BYERR X X X LR
BYLINE BYLINE X X X LR
BYSORTED BYSORTED X

LR
CAPS NOCAPS X X X LR
CARDIMAGE NOCARDIMAGE X X X LR
CATCACHE= 0 X

Comp/LR
CBUFNO= 0 X X X LR
CENTER CENTER X X X LR
CGOPTIMIZE
X X X LR
CHARCODE NOCHARCODE X X X LR
CLEANUP see description X X X Comp/LR
CMDMAC NOCMDMAC X X X Macro
CMPLIB= none X X X LR
CMPMODEL= BOTH X X X LR
CMPOPT= ALL X X
LR
COLLATE NOCOLLATE X X X LR
COLORPRINTING COLORPRINTING X X X LR
COMAMID TCP/IP X X X Conn/Share
COMAUX1 none X

Share
COMPRESS= NO X X X LR/SPDE
CONFIG see description X (also SASV9_CONFIG environment variable)

COMP
CONNECTPERSIST CONNECTPERSIST X X X Conn
CONNECTREMOTE none X X X Conn
CONNECTSTATUS CONNECTSTATUS X X X Conn
CONNECTWAIT CONNECTWAIT X X X Conn
COPIES= 1 X X X LR
CPUCOUNT= 1-1024 or ACTUAL X X X LR
CPUID CPUID X

LR
DATASTMTCHK= COREKEYWORDS X X X LR
DATE DATE X X X LR
DATESTYLE= MDY X X X LR
DBCS NODBCS X

NLS
DBCSLANG none X

NLS
DBCSTYPE see description X

NLS
DBSLICEPARM (THREADED_APPS, 2) X X X Access
DBSRVTP NONE X

Access
DEFLATION= 6 X X X LR
DETAILS NODETAILS X X X LR
DEVICE= none X (also, SASV9_OPTIONS environment variable, GOPTIONS statement X X Comp/LR
DFLANG ENGLISH X X X NLS
DKRICOND= ERROR X X X LR
DKROCOND= WARN X X X LR
DLDMGACTION= REPAIR X X X LR
DMR NODMR X

LR/Conn
DMS DMS X

LR
DMSEXP DMSEXP X

LR
DMSLOGSIZE= 99999 X

LR
DMSOUTSIZE= 99999 X

LR
DMSPGMLINESIZE= 136 X

LR
DMSSYNCHK NODMSSYNCHK X X X LR
DQLOCALE none X X X DQ
DQSETUPLOC none X X X DQ
DSNFERR DSNFERR X X X LR
DTRESET NODTRESET X X X LR
DUPLEX NODUPLEX X X X LR
ECHO none X

Comp
ECHOAUTO NOECHOAUTO X

LR
EDITCMD none X X
Comp
EMAILAUTHPROTOCOL= none X X X LR
EMAILFROM none X X X LR
EMAILHOST LOCALHOST X

LR
EMAILID= none X X X LR
EMAILPORT 25 X X X LR
EMAILPW= none X X X LR
EMAILSYS SMTP X (except SASV9_OPTIONS environment variable) X X COMP
ENCODING LATIN1 X

NLS
ENGINE= V9 X

Comp/LR
ERRORABEND NOERRORABEND X X X LR
ERRORBYABEND NOERRORBYABEND X X X LR
ERRORCHECK= NORMAL X X X LR
ERRORS= 20 X X X LR
EXPLORER NOEXPLORER X

LR
FILELOCKS FAIL X X

X

Comp
FILELOCKWAITMAX= 600 X

Comp
FILESYNC= HOST X

LR
FIRSTOBS= 1 X X X LR
FMTERR FMTERR X X X LR
FMTSEARCH= WORK LIBRARY X X X Comp/LR
FONTEMBEDDING FONTEMBEDDING X X X LR
FONTRENDERING= FREETYPE_POINTS X X X LR
FONTSLOC= !SASROOT/misc/fonts X

Comp/LR
FORMCHAR= |----|+|---+=| -/\<>* X X X LR
FORMDLIM= none X X X LR
FORMS= DEFAULT X X X LR
FSDBTYPE DEFAULT X

NLS
FSIMM none X

NLS
FSIMMOPT none X

NLS
FULLSTIMER NOFULLSTIMER X X
Comp
GSTYLE GSTYLE X X X LR
GWINDOW GWINDOW X X X LR
HELPBROWSER REMOTE X X X LR
HELPENCMD X (except SASV9_OPTIONS)


LR
HELPHOST null X X X Comp, LR
HELPINDEX /help/common.hlp/index.txt

/help/common.hlp/keywords.htm

common.hhk

X

Comp
HELPLOC !SASROOT/X11/native_help/en X

Comp
HELPPORT 0 X X X LR
HELPTOC /help/helpnav.help/config.txt

/help/common.hlp

/toc.htm, common.hhc

X

Comp


HTTPSERVERPORTMAX
X X
LR
HTTPSERVERPORTMIN
X X
LR
IBUFNO= 0 X X X LR
IBUFSIZE= 0 X X X LR
IMPLMAC NOIMPLMAC X X X Macro
INITCMD none X

LR
INITSTMT= none X

LR
INSERT none
X X

Comp/LR

INTERVALDS none X X X LR
INVALIDDATA= . X X X LR
JPEGQUALITY= 75 X X X LR
JREOPTIONS none X

Comp
LABEL LABEL X X X LR
_LAST_= _NULL_ X X X LR
LEFTMARGIN= 0 X X X LR
LINESIZE see description X X X Comp/LR
LOCALE ENGLISH_UNITEDSTATES X X X NLS
LOG see description X

Comp
LOGPARM= none X

LR
LPTYPE none X X
Comp
LRECL= 256 X X X LR
MACRO MACRO X

Macro
MAPS= !SASROOT/maps X X X Comp/LR
MAUTOLOCDISPLAY NOMAUTOLOCDISPLAY X X X Macro
MAUTOSOURCE MAUTOSOURCE X X X Macro
MAXMEMQUERY 256M X X
Comp
MAXSEGRATIO 75 X X X SPDE
MCOMPILENOTE NONE X X X Macro
MEMSIZE !SASROOT/sasv9.cfg X

Comp
MERGENOBY NOWARN X X X LR
MERROR MERROR X X X Macro
MEXECNOTE NOMEXECNOTE X X X Macro
MEXECSIZE 65536 X X X Macro
MFILE NOMFILE X X X Macro
MINDELIMITER none X X X Macro
MINPARTSIZE 16M X

SPDE
MISSING= . X X X LR
MLOGIC NOMLOGIC X X X Macro
MLOGICNEST NOMLOGICNEST X X X Macro
MPRINT NOMPRINT X X X Macro
MPRINTNEST NOMPRINTNEST X X X Macro
MRECALL NOMRECALL X X X Macro
MSG !SASROOT/sasmsg X

Comp
MSGCASE NOMSGCASE X

Comp
MSGLEVEL= N X X X LR
MSTORED NOMSTORED X X X Macro
MSYMTABMAX 4M X X X Comp/Macro
MULTENVAPPLE NOMULTENVAPPLE X X
LR
MVARSIZE 32K X X X Comp/Macro
NETENCRYPT NONETENCRYPT X X X DST
NETENCRYPTALGORITHM none X X X DST
NETENCRYPTKEYLEN 0 X X X DST
NEWS= !SASROOT/misc/base/news X

Comp/LR
NLSCOMPATMODE NONLSCOMPATMODE X

NLS
NOTES NOTES X X X LR
NUMBER NUMBER X X X LR
OBS MAX X X X Comp/LR
OPLIST NOOPLIST X

Comp
ORIENTATION= PORTRAIT X X X LR
OVP NOOVP X X X LR
PAGEBREAKINITIAL NOPAGEBREAKINITIAL X

LR
PAGENO= 1 X X X LR
PAGESIZE= see description X X X Comp/LR
PAPERDEST= none X X X LR
PAPERSIZE= LETTER X X X LR
PAPERSOURCE= none X X X LR
PAPERTYPE= PLAIN X X X LR
PARM= none X X X LR
PARMCARDS= FT15F001 X X X LR
PATH !SASROOT/sasexe X

Comp
PDFACCESS none X X X LR
PDFASSEMBLY NOPDFASSEMBLY X X X LR
PDFCOMMENT NOPDFCOMMENT X X X LR
PDFCONTENT none X X X LR
PDFCOPY PDFCOPY X X X LR
PDFFILLIN none X X X LR
PDFPAGELAYOUT= DEFAULT X X X LR
PDFPAGEVIEW= DEFAULT X X X LR
PDFPASSWORD=
X X
LR
PDFPRINT= HRES X X X LR
PDFSECURITY= NONE X X X LR
PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN= none X (except SASV9_OPTIONS )

COMP,LR
PRINT see description X

Comp
PRINTCMD none X X
Comp
PRINTERPATH= PostScript Level 1 X

LR


X LR
PRINTINIT NOPRINTINIT X

LR
PRINTMSGLIST PRINTMSGLIST X X X LR
QUOTELENMAX QUOTELENMAX X X X LR
REALMEMSIZE 0 X

Comp
REPLACE REPLACE X X X LR
REUSE= NO X X X LR
RIGHTMARGIN= 0.000 X X X LR
RSASUSER NORSASUSER X

Comp/LR
RTRACE NONE X

Comp
RTRACELOC none X

Comp
S= none X X X LR
S2= none X X X LR
S2V= S2 X X X LR
SASAUTOS SASAUTOS fileref X X X Comp/Macro
SASCMD none X X X Conn
SASFRSCR none Valid in SAS Component Language Conn
SASHELP= !SASROOT/sashelp X

Comp/LR
SASMSTORE none X X X Macro
SASSCRIPT !SASROOT/misc/connect X X X Comp/Conn
SASUSER ~SASUSER.v92 X

Comp/LR
SEQ= 8 X X X LR
SERROR SERROR X X X Macro
SET none X X
Comp
SETINIT NOSETINIT X

LR
SHARESESSIONCNTL SERVER X X X Share
SIGNONWAIT SIGNONWAIT X X X Conn
SKIP= 0 X X X LR
SOLUTIONS SOLUTIONS X

LR
SORTANOM none X X
Comp
SORTCUT 0 X X
Comp
SORTCUTP 0 X X
Comp
SORTDEV see description X X
Comp
SORTDUP= PHYSICAL X X X LR
SORTEQUALS SORTEQUALS X X X LR
SORTNAME none X X
Comp
SORTPARM none X X
Comp
SORTPGM BEST X X
Comp
SORTSEQ none X X X NLS
SORTSIZE value of MAX X X X Comp/LR
SORTVALIDATE NOSORTVALIDATE X X X LR
SOURCE SOURCE X X X LR
SOURCE2 NOSOURCE2 X X X LR
SPDEINDEXSORTSIZE 32M X X X SPDE
SPDEMAXTHREADS 0 X

SPDE
SPDESORTSIZE 32M X X X SPDE
SPDEUTILLOC none X

SPDE
SPDEWHEVAL COST X

SPDE
SPOOL NOSPOOL X X X LR
SQLCONSTDATETIME none X X X LR
SQLMAPPUTTO SAS_PUT X X
Access
SQLREDUCEPUT= DBMS X X X LR
SQLREDUCEPUTOBS= 0 X X X LR
SQLREDUCEPUTVALUES= 0 X X X LR
SQLREMERGE none X X X LR
SQLUNDOPOLICY= REQUIRED X X
LR
SSLCALISTLOC none X X X DST
SSLCERTLOC none X X X DST
SSLCLIENTAUTH NOSSLCLIENTAUTH X X X DST
SSLCRLCHECK NOSSLCRLCHECK X X X DST
SSLCRLLOC none X X X DST
SSLPVTKEYLOC none X X X DST
SSLPVTKEYPASS none X X X DST
STARTLIB STARTLIB X

LR
STDIO NOSTDIO X

Comp
STEPCHKPT NOSTEPCHKPT X

LR
STEPCHKPTLIB= WORK X

LR
STEPRESTART none X

LR
STIMEFMT M X X
Comp
STIMER STIMER X X
Comp
SUMSIZE= 0 X X X LR
SVGCONTROLBUTTONS NOSVGCONTROLBUTTONS X X X LR
SVGHEIGHT= none X X X LR
SVGPRESERVEASPECTRATIO= none X X X LR
SVGTITLE= none X X X LR
SVGVIEWBOX= none X X X LR
SVGWIDTH= none X X X LR
SVGX= none X X X LR
SVGY= none X X X LR
SYMBOLGEN NOSYMBOLGEN X X X Macro
SYNTAXCHECK SYNTAXCHECK X X X LR
SYSIN none X

Comp
SYSPARM none X X X Macro
SYSPRINT default system printer X X
Comp
SYSPRINTFONT= none X X X LR
TBUFSIZE 0 X X X Conn/Share
TCPPORTFIRST 0 SAS invocation on the remote host Conn
TCPPORTLAST 0 SAS invocation on the remote host Conn
TERMINAL TERMINAL X

LR
TERMSTMT= none X

LR
TEXTURELOC= !SASROOT/misc/textures X X X LR
THREADS THREADS X X X LR
TOOLSMENU TOOLSMENU X

LR
TOPMARGIN= 0.000 X X X LR
TRAINLOC= none X

LR
TRANTAB none X X X NLS
UPRINTCOMPRESSION UPRINTCOMPRESSION X X X LR
UNIVERSALPRINT UNIVERSALPRINT X

LR
USER= none X X X Comp/LR
UTILLOC= WORK X

LR
UUIDCOUNT= 100 X X X LR
UUIDGENDHOST= none X

LR
V6CREATEUPDATE= NOTE X

LR
VALIDFMTNAME= LONG X X X LR
VALIDVARNAME= V7 X X X LR
VARLENCHR
X X X LR
VERBOSE NOVERBOSE X

Comp
VIEWMENU VIEWMENU X

LR
VNFERR VNFERR X X X LR
WORK= see description X

Comp/LR
WORKINIT WORKINIT X

Comp/LR
WORKPERMS 700 X

Comp
WORKTERM WORKTERM X X X LR
YEARCUTOFF= 1920 X X X LR

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