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Problem Note 66714: An OPTIONS statement generated by submitting batch programs in SAS® Studio might cause syntax errors such as "ERROR 3-12: Invalid option value"
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In SAS Studio 3.8, when you execute a program by highlighting it and selecting Background Submit, one of the statements generated by SAS Studio is an OPTIONS statement that sets the FILELOCKS= option. If you have modified the workspace server configuration files to add a customized value for this option, the resulting concatenation of the values might result in the following:
ERROR 3-12: Invalid option value.
ERROR 180: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.
ERROR 180: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.
For example, you might encounter this issue if you add the following to usermods.cfg file:
-FILELOCKS '/home/sasdemo/tmp' NONE
After you add the line above, the resulting OPTIONS statement is as follows:
OPTIONS FILELOCKS=( '/' FAIL; '/home/sasdemo/tmp' NONE );
This statement causes the above errors.
Note that even with the errors, the FILELOCKS option is still assigned the correct value.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Studio | 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 3.8 | 5.1 | 9.4 TS1M6 | Viya |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 3.8 | 5.1 | 9.4 TS1M6 | Viya | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 3.8 | 5.1 | 9.4 TS1M6 | Viya | ||
| Linux for x64 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 9.4 TS1M6 | Viya | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 9.4 TS1M6 | Viya | ||