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System Options under OpenVMS

FMTSEARCH= System Option: OpenVMS



Controls the order in which format catalogs are searched.
Default: (WORK LIBRARY)
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol
Category: Environment control: Files
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= ENVFILES
OpenVMS specifics: valid values for catalog-specification
See: FMTSEARCH= System Option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Syntax

Syntax

FMTSEARCH=(catalog-specification-1 catalog-specification-2 . . . catalog-specification-n)

catalog-specification

specifies a valid OpenVMS libref. The value of libref can be either libref or libref.catalog. If only the libref is given, SAS assumes that FORMATS is the catalog name.

When you specify this system option in a configuration file or on the SAS command line, you must enclose catalog-specification in double quotation marks. You must also separate each catalog-specification with a blank space, not with a comma, even though the comma is typically used as a list delimiter by OpenVMS.

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