The following is a description of all the physical data sets that are created when installing SAS versions 9.1.3 through 9.3 on z/OS. You may not have all of these data sets because some are created only if you license specific SAS products.

SAS Technical Support highly recommends that you not delete any of these data sets, even if you think you will never use them. Future updates or adding additional products to this image may fail if the image is not complete. If you want to save DASD space, we recommend that you archive any unused data sets to tape instead of deleting them.

Files that make up the SAS System

Notes:
&prefix is the prefix specified at the time of your install.
ll is the code for the language of your installation.
Wn is the encoding for your installation.

** For more information on Languages / Encodings see the last section in the Installation Instructions for SAS® 9.1.3 Foundation for z/OS®

&prefix.BAMISC 		- Base SAS® miscellaneous source code PDS
&prefix.CLIST		- Where generated CLISTS are written
&prefix.CONFIG          - PDS containing configuration files (new in 9.2)	
&prefix.CNTL		- Installation job data set  (8.2 and 9.1.3)  
   &prefix.V92D8nnn.CNTL - in 9.2  (where nnn is the Julian date of the installation) 
   &prefix.INSTALL.CNTL  - in 9.3    
&prefix.CNTL.PREEDIT    - Used for installation (new in 9.2) 
&prefix.CNTL.RENEW	- Contains SID/setinit programs and JCL 
&prefix.CTMISC		- SAS/CONNECT®  Miscellaneous PDS
&prefix.DBCS.LIBRARY	- Double Byte Character Set load library
&prefix.DBRM		- SAS/ACCESS® Interface to DB2 miscellaneous PDS (dropped in 9.3)  
&prefix.DQ.*		- SAS® Data Quality data sets
&prefix.llWn.SASHELP	- SASHELP library  
   - Allocated to SASHELP DD in CLIST, REXX and PROC
&prefix.llWn..SASMSG	- SASMSG library  
   - Allocated to SASMSG DD in CLIST, REXX and PROC
&prefix.llWn.XREG.TXT	- Registry source (9.1.3 only)   
  - The registry is built during the install
&prefix.GRMISC		- SAS/GRAPH® miscellaneous PDS
&prefix.ITMADPT.*	- SAS Solution adapters files
&prefix.ITRM.*		- SAS®  IT Resource Management files (ITRM)
&prefix.LIBE            - SAS load library modules that must be in a PDSE (new in 9.2)
&prefix.LIBRARY		- SAS load library
   - Allocated to the STEPLIB DD in the JCL proc, and to tasklib
     in the CLIST and REXX 
&prefix.MAPSGFK         - SAS/GRAPH® MAPS data sets (new in 9.3) 
&prefix.MXG*            - MXG data sets associated with SAS® IT Resource Management  
&prefix.NEWS		- News data set, echoed into SAS LOG
&prefix.PROCLIB		- Generated JCL procs are written here
&prefix.SAMPLE		- Sample library – contains source code
  &prefix.Wn.SAMPLE in 9.2 and 9.3  
&prefix.SAMPSIO		- SAS library with sample data used by the programs in the SAMPLE library
  &prefix.Wn.SAMPSIO in 9.2 and 9.2   
&prefix.SASC.TRANSLIB	- SAS/C® transient library (dropped in 9.2) 
&prefix.SASRX           - REXX EXECs (new in 9.2) 
&prefix.SASRXCFG        - Configuration files for REXX EXECs (new in 9.2)   
&prefix.*.TTF		- True type font files (moved to Unix file systems in 9.2)  
&prefix.SASSAML		- Used with SAS/SHARE® product
&prefix.SEMISC		- SAS/SESSION®  Miscellaneous PDS
&prefix.TKMVSENV	- Default settings for environment vars
   - The TKMVSENV member is allocated to the TKMVSENV DD in 
     CLIST/JCL Proc
&prefix.TKMVSENV.PRE    - used for installation (new in 9.3) 
&prefix.TOOLKIT.*	- SAS/TOOLKIT® files (in 9.1.3) 
&prefix.TLKT.*          - SAS/TOOLKIT® files (in 9.2 and 9.3)  
&prefix.USAGE.HFAUD	- Hot Fix Audit files  (dropped in 9.3 - this information is now in the registry)
&prefix.USAGE.LIBRARY	- SAS Note library (dropped in 9.3) 
&prefix.USAGE.ZAPS	- Zap library  (dropped in 9.2)  
&prefix.WEB.TAR		- USS TAR files used during installation (9.2 only) 
&prefix.Wn.AUTOLIB	- Autocall library - assigned to SASAUTOS DD in CLIST and PROC
&prefix.Wn.ITRM.*	- SAS® IT Resource Management data libraries  
&prefix.Wn.MAPS	- SAS/GRAPH®  Maps data set  
&prefix.Wn.SRVCFG	- Config files for various servers (9.2 only)
&prefix.Wn.SRVCLIST	- generated CLISTS for various servers (9.2 only) 
&prefix.Wn.SRVCNTL	- Misc stuff for various servers (9.2 only) 
&prefix.Wn.SRVENV	- Environment variable settings for various servers (9.2 only) &prefix.Wn.SRVPARM	- parm files for various servers (9.2 only) &prefix.Wn.SRVPROC	- procs for various servers (9.2 only) &prefix.Wn.SRVREXX	- REXX execs for various servers (9.2 only) &prefix.Wn.TARFILES	- USS tar files 
   - Used during the install
&prefix.Wn.TESTS	- Installation validation files
   - Used after the install by the VALID jobs
&prefix.Wn.XREG.TXT     - Registry source 
   - The registry is built during the install
&prefix.ZT.*.GFONT      – Asian language graphic fonts (moved to Unix files in 9.3)  

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