Statements

Global Statements

Global statements generally provide information to SAS, request information or data, move between different modes of execution, or set values for system options. Other global statements (ODS statements) deliver output in a variety of formats, such as in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). You can use global statements anywhere in a SAS program. Global statements are not executable; they take effect as soon as SAS compiles program statements.

Other SAS software products have additional global statements that are used with those products. For information, see the SAS documentation for those products.

Global Statements by Category

The following table lists and describes SAS global statements, organized by function into eight categories:

Global Statements by Category
Statements Category		Functionality
Data Access		associate reference names with SAS libraries, SAS catalogs, external files and output devices, and access remote files.
Log Control		alter the appearance of the SAS log.
ODS: Output Control		choose objects to send to output destinations; edit the output format.
ODS: SAS Formatted		apply default styles to SAS specific entities such as a SAS data set, SAS output listing, or a SAS document.
ODS: Third-Party Formatted		apply styles to the output objects that are used by applications outside of SAS.
Operating Environment		access the operating environment directly.
Output Control		add titles and footnotes to your SAS output; deliver output in a variety of formats.
Program Control		govern the way SAS processes your SAS program.

The following table provides brief descriptions of SAS global statements. For more detailed information, see the individual statements.

Categories and Descriptions of Global Statements
Category	Statement	Description
Data Access	CATNAME Statement	Logically combines two or more catalogs into one by associating them with a catref (a shortcut name); clears one or all catrefs; lists the concatenated catalogs in one concatenation or in all concatenations.
	FILENAME Statement	Associates a SAS fileref with an external file or an output device, disassociates a fileref and external file, or lists attributes of external files.
	FILENAME Statement, CATALOG Access Method	Enables you to reference a SAS catalog as an external file.
	FILENAME, CLIPBOARD Access Method	Enables you to read text data from and write text data to the clipboard on the host computer.
	FILENAME Statement, EMAIL (SMTP) Access Method	Enables you to send electronic mail programmatically from SAS using the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) e-mail interface.
	FILENAME Statement, FTP Access Method	Enables you to access remote files by using the FTP protocol.
	FILENAME Statement, SFTP Access Method	Enables you to access remote files by using the SFTP protocol.
	FILENAME Statement, SOCKET Access Method	Enables you to read from or write to a TCP/IP socket.
	FILENAME Statement, URL Access Method	Enables you to access remote files by using the URL access method.
	FILENAME Statement, WebDAV Access Method	Enables you to access remote files by using the WebDAV protocol.
	LIBNAME Statement	Associates or disassociates a SAS library with a libref (a shortcut name), clears one or all librefs, lists the characteristics of a SAS library, concatenates SAS libraries, or concatenates SAS catalogs.
	LIBNAME Statement for WebDAV Server Access	Associates a libref with a SAS library and enables access to a WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring And Versioning) server.
Log Control	Comment Statement	Specifies the purpose of the statement or program.
	PAGE Statement	Skips to a new page in the SAS log.
	SKIP Statement	Creates a blank line in the SAS log.
Operating Environment	X Statement	Issues an operating-environment command from within a SAS session.
Output Control	FOOTNOTE Statement	Writes up to 10 lines of text at the bottom of the procedure or DATA step output.
	TITLE Statement	Specifies title lines for SAS output.
Program Control	CHECKPOINT EXECUTE_ALWAYS Statement	Indicates to execute the DATA step or PROC step that immediately follows without considering the checkpoint-restart data.
	DM Statement	Submits SAS Program Editor, Log, Procedure Output or text editor commands as SAS statements.
	ENDSAS Statement	Terminates a SAS job or session after the current DATA or PROC step executes.
	%INCLUDE Statement	Brings a SAS programming statement, data lines, or both, into a current SAS program.
	%LIST Statement	Displays lines that are entered in the current session.
	LOCK Statement	Acquires and releases an exclusive lock on an existing SAS file.
	OPTIONS Statement	Specifies or changes the value of one or more SAS system options.
	RUN Statement	Executes the previously entered SAS statements.
	%RUN Statement	Ends source statements following a %INCLUDE * statement.
	SASFILE Statement	Opens a SAS data set and allocates enough buffers to hold the entire file in memory.
	SYSECHO Statement	Fires a global statement complete event and passes a text string back to the IOM client.

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