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SAS System Options under Windows

SYSPARM System Option: Windows



Specifies a character string that can be passed to SAS programs.
Default: none
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category: Environment control: Files
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= ENVFILES
Windows specifics: Valid values and syntax for characters
See: SYSPARM System Option in SAS Macro Language: Reference

Syntax
Details

Syntax

-SYSPARM <">characters<">
SYSPARM=<">characters<">

characters

writes the character string in all uppercase.

"characters"

preserves the case of the character string.


Details

The SYSPARM system option specifies a character string that can be passed to SAS programs.

The character string specified can be accessed in a SAS DATA step by the SYSPARM() function or anywhere in a SAS program by using the automatic macro variable referenced by &SYSPARM.

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