System Options under OpenVMS

VERBOSE System Option: OpenVMS

Specifies whether SAS writes the system options that are set when SAS starts to the VMS computer (for the SAS windowing environment) or to the batch log (in batch mode).

Default:	NOVERBOSE
Valid in:	SAS invocation, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol
Category:	Log and procedure output control: SAS log
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	LOGCONTROL
OpenVMS specifics:	all

Syntax
Details
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Syntax

VERBOSE | NOVERBOSE

VERBOSE: specifies that SAS writes the system option settings that are set when SAS starts to the VMS computer or to the batch log.
NOVERBOSE: specifies that SAS does not write the system option settings.

Details

The VERBOSE system option is valid only on the command line at SAS invocation or in the VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol.

Under OpenVMS, the settings are written to your computer in any method of running SAS except batch mode. If you invoke SAS as a part of a batch job, the settings are written to the OpenVMS batch log.

If you specify the VERBOSE system option in a configuration file, no error message is generated, but the option is ignored.

The output from the VERBOSE system option shows the following:

all of the configuration files that are found (except the default configuration file)
all of the options that have been set along with their current values.

Note: Because some options are set by default, more options are displayed than are specified in the configuration files. The host-specific options are listed first followed by the options that are found in all operating environments. [cautionend]