Language Reference

SHOW Statement

prints system information

SHOW operands;

where operands are any of the valid operands to the SHOW statement. These are given in the following list.

The SHOW statement prints system information. The following operands are available:

ALL

shows all the information included by OPTIONS, SPACE, DATASETS, FILES, and MODULES.

ALLNAMES

behaves like NAMES, but also shows names without values.

CONTENTS

shows the names and attributes of the variables in the current SAS data set.

DATASETS

shows all open SAS data sets.

FILES

shows all open files.

MEMORY

returns the size of the largest chunk of main memory available.

MODULES

shows all modules that exist in the current IML environment. A module already referenced but not yet defined is listed as undefined.

name

shows attributes of the specified matrix. If the name of a matrix is one of the SHOW keywords, then both the information for the keyword and the matrix are shown.

NAMES

shows attributes of all matrices having values. Attributes include number of rows, number of columns, data type, and size.

OPTIONS

shows current settings of all IML options (see the RESET statement).

PAUSE

shows the status of all paused modules that are pending resume.

SPACE

shows the workspace and symbolspace size and their current usage.

STORAGE

shows the modules and matrices in the current IML library storage.

WINDOWS

shows all active windows opened by WINDOW statements.

An example of a valid statement follows:

  
    show all;