At invocation, SAS looks in
the
Sasuser
directory to see whether
it can write to the Sasuser.Registry catalog. If SAS cannot write
to this catalog, then the following warning appears in the SAS log:
WARNING: Unable to open SASUSER.REGISTRY. WORK.REGISTRY will be used instead.
NOTE: All registry changes will be lost at the end of the session.
If SAS can read the
Sasuser.Registry catalog, then SAS copies the Sasuser.Registry catalog
to create a Work.Registry catalog (in the Work library). This Work.Registry
catalog will be used for the duration of the SAS session. Because
the contents of the Work library are temporary, then any customizations
that you save to the Work.Registry catalog will be lost at the end
of the SAS session. However, the customizations saved in the Sasuser.Registry
catalog will still exist.
If SAS cannot read the
Sasuser.Registry catalog, then SAS creates the Work.Registry catalog
using the default settings for a SAS session. In this case, SAS issues
an additional warning to the SAS log:
WARNING: Unable to copy SASUSER.REGISTRY to WORK.REGISTRY.