- BLKSIZE= is now available as a system option.
The following functions are new.
- DINFO
- returns specified information about a directory in a partitioned
data set (PDS), a partitioned data set extended (PDSE), or UNIX System Services.
- DOPEN
- opens a directory and returns a directory identifier value.
- DOPTNAME
- returns information about directory attributes.
- DOPTNUM
- returns the number of information items available for a
directory.
- FCLOSE
- closes an external file that was opened with FOPEN.
- FDELETE
- deletes data sets.
- FEXIST
- verifies the existence of an external file associated with
a fileref and returns a value.
- FILENAME
- assigns or deassigns a fileref for an external file.
- FILEREF
- verifies that a fileref has been assigned and returns a
value.
- FILEXIST
- verifies the existence of an external file based on its
physical filename and returns a value.
- FINFO
- returns the value of a file information item.
- FOPEN
- opens an external file and returns a file identifier value.
- FOPTNAME
- returns the name of an item of information for a file.
- FOPTNUM
- returns the number of available file information items.
- LIBNAME
- assigns or deassigns a libref for a SAS data library and
returns a value.
- MOPEN
- opens a file by directory ID and member name and returns
either the file identifier or 0.
- PATHNAME
- returns the physical name of a SAS data library or an external
file or returns a blank.
- SYSGET
- returns the values of a specified host-environment variable.
- The following procedures are new:
- PROC DBF
- is now supported in the OS/390 environment. With a license
for SAS/ACCESS for PC File Formats, you can use PROC DBF to convert dBASE
files to SAS data sets or SAS data sets to dBASE files.
- PROC ITEMS
- enables you to create, modify, and delete itemstores, which
are special file formats used to store information relating to the SAS session.
- The following procedures have
changed:
- PROC CIMPORT
- no longer supports background color options.
-
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PROC
OPTIONS
- supports the following parameters in Version 8: DEFINE,
GROUP=, OPTION=, and VALUE.
- PROC TAPELABEL
- now produces its output through the Output Delivery System.
This procedure also has new DUMP=, BLOCKS, and RECORDS options for specifying
dumps to tape.
- FILE
- The FILE statement now supports two new options:
- LINESIZE=
- works with the LRECL= option to specify the maximum number
of columns in print files, non-print files, and the SAS log.
- PRINT | NOPRINT
- specifies whether carriage-control characters are placed
in all lines of output that are directed to print files or to the SAS log.
- FILENAME
-
In Version 8, the FILENAME statement supports the EMAIL device type,
which allows you to send electronic mail from within SAS.
-
SYSTASK
LIST
- lists asynchronous tasks.
-
WAITFOR
- suspends execution of the current SAS session until the
specified tasks finish executing.
- The following system options are
new:
-
DLINITDEFER
- suppresses synchronization of VTOC entry at library creation
time.
- DLTRUNCHK
- checks for SAS data library truncation.
- FILESYSTEM=
- specifies the default file system access method that is
used when the filename is ambiguous.
- MEMLEAVE=
- specifies the amount of memory reserved for use by the operating
environment.
- MSG=
- specifies the partitioned data set that contains SAS messages.
(This option replaces SASMSG=.)
- MSGCASE
- specifies uppercase or lowercase message display.
- MSGLOAD
- enables message files to be closed and reloaded.
- MSGSIZE=
- specifies the size of the message storage cache.
- SORTALTMSGF
- enables sorting with alternate message flags.
- SORTBLKMODE
- enables block-mode sorting.
- SORTBUFMOD
- enables modification of the sort utility output buffer.
- SORTDEVWARN
- enables device type warnings.
- SORTUADCON
- specifies whether the host sort utility supports passing
a user address constant to the E15/E35 exits.
- SVC11SCREEN
- specifies whether to enable SVC 11 screening to obtain host
date and time information.
- XCMD
- enables the use of operating environment commands in a SAS
session
- The following system options are now
obsolete:
- APPCSEC=
- CODEPASS=
- CODEPCT=
- LU0MODE=
- LU0SEC=
- TCPSEC=
- The
following system options are now documented in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary because
they no longer have host-specific
aspects:
- CLEANUP
- COMAMID
- MAPS=
- NEWS=
- REMOTE=
- RSASUSER
The SAS Explorer windowing environment contains the following host-specific
windows, all of which are new since SAS Version 6.09E:
- DSINFO
- provides information about a cataloged physical file.
- FILENAME
- displays assigned filerefs and their associated filenames.
- FNAME
- displays allocated DDnames, their associated data set names,
and data set information.
- LIBNAME
- lists all the libraries that are currently assigned in your
SAS session.
- MEMLIST
- displays a member list for a partitioned data set (PDS)
or for a series of partitioned data sets in a concatenation.
- New or updated windows of the FORM subsystem include:
-
- IBM 3800 Print-File Parameter Frame
- requests IBM 3800 print-file parameters.
- TSO Print-File Parameter Frame
- requests TSO print-file parameters.
New or updated commands
include:
- DFLTACTION
- simulates a mouse double-click.
- DLGENDR
- ends the SAS session.
- EXPLODE
- displays the full length of truncated text entry fields.
- INCLUDE
- copies the contents of an external file into the current
window.
- TSO
- issues a TSO command or invokes a CLIST or a REXX exec from
the command line.
- WIDGNEXT
- moves the keyboard focus from one widget to the next widget.
- WIDGPREV
- moves the keyboard focus from one widget to the previous
widget.
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