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SAS System Options

STEPRESTART System Option



Specifies whether to execute a batch program by using checkpoint-restart data.
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation
Category: Environment control: Error handling
Requirement: can be used only in batch mode
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= ERRORHANDLING

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
See Also

Syntax

STEPRESTART | NOSTEPRESTART

Syntax Description

STEPRESTART

enables restart mode, which specifies to execute the batch program by using the checkpoint-restart data.

NOSTEPRESTART

disables restart mode, which specifies not to execute the batch program using checkpoint-restart data.


Details

You specify the STEPRESTART option when you want to resubmit a batch program that ran in checkpoint mode and terminated before it completed. When you resubmit the batch program, SAS determines from the checkpoint data which DATA step or PROC step was executing when the program terminated, and resumes executing the batch program by using that DATA or PROC step.


See Also

System Options:

STEPCHKPT System Option

STEPCHKPTLIB= System Option

Statement:

CHECKPOINT EXECUTE_ALWAYS Statement

Restarting Batch Programs in SAS Language Reference: Concepts

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