Specifies the size of a permanent buffer page for an output SAS data set.
Valid in: | DATA step and PROC steps |
Category: | Data Set Control |
Restriction: | Use with output data sets only. |
See: | BUFSIZE= Data Set Option under UNIX, z/OS, or OpenVMS in the documentation for your operating environment. |
specifies the page
size in multiples of 1 (bytes); 1,024 (kilobytes); 1,048,576 (megabytes);
or 1,073,741,824 (gigabytes). For example, a value of 8
specifies
a page size of 8 bytes, and a value of 4k
specifies
a page size of 4,096 bytes.
specifies the page
size as a hexadecimal value. You must specify the value beginning
with a number (0–9), followed by an X. For example, the value 2dx
sets
the page size to 45 bytes.
sets the page size to the maximum possible number in your operating environment, up to the largest four-byte, signed integer, which is 231–1, or approximately 2 billion bytes.