System Options under OpenVMS

XLOGICAL System Option: OpenVMS

Specifies that process-level logical names are passed to the subprocess that is spawned by an X statement or X command.

Default:	XLOGICAL
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol
Category:	Environment control: Initialization and operation
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	EXECMODES
OpenVMS specifics:	all

Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

XLOGICAL | NOXLOGICAL

XLOGICAL: passes the logical names to the subprocess.
NOXLOGICAL: does not pass the logical names to the subprocess.

Details

The XLOGICAL system option specifies whether to pass the process-level logical names to the subprocess that is spawned by an X statement or X command.

The XLOGICAL system option takes effect only after a subprocess is spawned. For information about when a subprocess is spawned, see XTIMEOUT= System Option: OpenVMS.