System Options under OpenVMS |
Specifies that global symbols are passed to the subprocess that
is spawned by an X statement or X command.
Default: |
XSYMBOL
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Valid in: |
configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS
statement, SAS System Options window, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL
symbol
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Category: |
Environment control: Initialization and operation
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PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
EXECMODES
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OpenVMS specifics: |
all
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XSYMBOL
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passes the global symbols to the subprocess.
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NOXSYMBOL
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does not pass the global symbols to the
subprocess.
The XSYMBOL system option specifies whether
to pass the global symbols to the subprocess that is spawned by an X statement
or X command.
Local symbols are not passed to a subprocess that is
created using the X 'DCL-command' form of the
X statement or X command. Thus, if you define a process-level symbol, MYSYMBOL,
before you invoke SAS, and then you issue the following X statement during
your SAS session, SAS cannot find MYSYMBOL:
x 'show symbol mysymbol';
To see the value of MYSYMBOL, issue the following X
statement, and then issue the SHOW SYMBOL MYSYMBOL command at the SAS_$ prompt:
x '';
This option takes effect only after a subprocess is
spawned. For information about when a subprocess is spawned, see
XTIMEOUT= System Option: OpenVMS.
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