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SAS System Options under Windows

Summary of System Options for Windows

Summary of SAS System Options lists all the system options available to SAS users under the Windows operating environment. Many of these options have no system-dependent behavior and are described completely in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. Others are available only under Windows and are completely described here. Some system options are described here and in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.

Note:   Some system options in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary indicate that the system option can have additional operating environment information and to refer to the SAS documentation for your operating environment. If such a system option is not described in SAS Companion for Windows, the system option is to be used as described in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.  [cautionend]

Use the following legend to determine where to find more information on a system option:

Access

SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference.

AppSrv

SAS Intelligence Platform: Application Server Administration Guide

ARM

SAS Interface to Application Response Measurement (ARM): Reference.

CAM

Communications Access Methods for SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE.

Comp

indicates that the option is completely described in this section.

Conn

SAS/CONNECT User's Guide.

DQ

System Options in SAS Data Quality Server: Reference.

DST

Encryption in SAS.

Log

SAS Logging: Configuration and Programming Reference

LR

SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.

Macro

SAS Macro Language: Reference.

Meta

SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata

NLS

SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide.

Share

SAS/SHARE User's Guide.

SPDE

SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference.

Web

indicates that the option is described in documentation posted on the SAS Web site (support.sas.com).

Summary of SAS System Options
OptionsSpecification Default Value SASinvo-cation Config-uration file SAS System Options window OPTIONS statement See
ACCESSIBILITY STANDARD X X

Comp
ALTLOG arg NOALTLOG X X

Comp
ALTPRINT arg NOALTPRINT X X

Comp
APPEND none X X X X LR
APPLETLOC none X X X X LR
ARMAGENT none X X X X ARM
ARMLOC ARMLOG.LOG X X X X ARM
ARMSUBSYS ARM_NONE X X X X ARM
AUTHPROVIDER-DOMAIN AUTHPP X X

LR, Comp
AUTHSERVER local and trusted servers X X X X Comp
AUTOEXEC arg AUTOEXEC.SAS if file is available; otherwise none X X

Comp
AUTOSAVELOC none X X X X LR
AUTOSIGNON NOAUTOSIGNON X X X X Conn
AWSCONTROL TITLE SYSTEMMENU MINMAX X X X X Comp
AWSDEF arg 80% of display height and width X X X X Comp
AWSMENU AWSMENU X X X X Comp
AWSMENUMERGE AWSMENUMERGE X X X X Comp
AWSTITLE arg none X X

Comp
BINDING arg DEFAULT X X X X LR
BOMFILE BOMFILE X X X X NLS
BOTTOMMARGIN 0.000IN X X X X LR
BUFNO arg 1 X X X X LR, Comp
BUFSIZE arg 0 X X X X LR, Comp
BYERR BYERR X X X X LR
BYLINE BYLINE X X X X LR
BYSORTED BYSORTED X X X X LR
CAPS NOCAPS X X X X LR
CARDIMAGE NOCARDIMAGE X X X X LR
CATCACHE arg 0 X X

LR, Comp
CBUFNO arg 0 X X X X LR
CENTER CENTER X X X X LR
CGOPTIMIZE 3 X X X X LR
CHARCODE NOCHARCODE X X X X LR
CLEANUP CLEANUP X X X X LR, Comp
CMDMAC NOCMDMAC X X X X Macro
CMPLIB arg none X X X X LR
CMPMODEL BOTH X X X X LR
CMPOPT arg

NOEXTRAMATH

NOMISSCHECK

NOPRECISE

NOGUARDCHECK

NOFUNCDIFFERENCING

 X X X X LR
COLLATE NOCOLLATE X X X X LR
COLORPRINTING COLORPRINTING X X X X LR
COMAMID arg TCP X X
X Conn, Share, CAM
COMAUX1 arg none X X

CAM
COMAUX2 arg none X X

CAM
COMDEF arg BOTTOM CENTER X X

Comp
COMPRESS arg NO X X X X LR
CONFIG arg !sasroot\SASV9.CFG X X

Comp
CONNECTPERSIST YES X X

Conn
CONNECTREMOTE arg none X X X X Conn
CONNECTSTATUS CONNECTSTATUS X X X X Conn
CONNECTWAIT CONNECTWAIT X X X X Conn
COPIES arg 1 X X X X LR
CPUCOUNT arg 1 X X X X LR
CPUID CPUID X X

LR
DATASTMTCHK arg COREKEYWORDS X X X X LR
DATE DATE X X X X LR
DATESTYLE MDY X X X X LR
DBCS NODBCS X X

NLS
DBCSLANG NODBCSLANG X X

NLS
DBCSTYPE WINDOWS X X

NLS
DBIDIRECTEXEC NODBIDIRECTEXEC X X X X Access
DBSLICEPARM THREADED_APPS, 2 X X X X Access
DBSRVTP NONE X X

Access
DEFLATION 6 X X X X LR
DMSEXP NODMSEXP X X

LR
DMSPGMLINESIZE 136 X X

LR
DETAILS NODETAILS X X X X LR
DEVICE arg none X X X X LR, Comp
DFLANG arg ENGLISH X X X X NLS
DKRICOND arg ERROR X X X X LR
DKROCOND arg WARN X X X X LR
DLDMGACTION FAIL for batch mode; REPAIR for interactive mode X X X X LR
DMR NODMR X X

LR, Conn
DMS DMS X X

LR
DMSLOGSIZE arg 99999 X X

LR
DMSOUTSIZE arg 99999 X X

LR
DMSSYNCHK NODMSSYNCHK X X X X LR
DQLOCALE arg none X X X X DQ
DQOPTIONS none X X

DQ
DQSETUPLOC arg none X X X X DQ
DSNFERR DSNFERR X X X X LR
DTRESET NODTRESET X X X X LR
DUPLEX arg NODUPLEX X X X X LR
ECHO arg NOECHO X X

Comp
ECHOAUTO NOECHOAUTO X X

LR
EMAILAUTHPROTOCOL arg NONE X X

LR
EMAILDLG arg NATIVE X X

Comp
EMAILFROM NOEMAILFROM X X X X LR
EMAILHOST arg LOCALHOST X X

LR
EMAILID arg none X X

LR
EMAILPORT arg 25 X X

LR
EMAILPW arg none X X

LR
EMAILSYS arg MAPI X X

Comp
ENCODING WLATIN1 X X

NLS
ENGINE arg V9 X X

LR, Comp
ENHANCEDEDITOR ENHANCEDEDITOR X X

Comp
ERRORABEND NOERRORABEND X X X X LR
ERRORBYABEND NOERRORBYABEND X X X X LR
ERRORCHECK arg NORMAL X X X X LR
ERRORS arg 20 X X X X LR
EXPLORER NOEXPLORER X X

LR
FILELOCKWAITMAX 600 X X

Comp
FILESYNC SAS X X

LR
FILTERLIST arg none X X

Comp
FIRSTOBS arg 1 X X X X LR
FMTERR FMTERR X X X X LR
FMTSEARCH arg Work Library X X X X LR
FONT arg Sasfont 8 X X X X Comp
FONTALIAS arg varies X X

Comp
FONTEMBEDDING FONTEMBEDDING X X X X LR
FONTRENDERING FREETYPE-POINTS X X X X LR
FONTSLOC arg !sasroot\core\resource X X

LR, Comp
FORMCHAR arg (see SASV9.CFG) X X X X LR, Comp
FORMDLIM arg none X X X X LR
FORMS arg DEFAULT X X X X LR
FULLSTIMER NOFULLSTIMER X X X X Comp
GSTYLE GSTYLE X X X X LR
GWINDOW GWINDOW X X X X LR
HELPADDR none X X X X Web
HELPBROWSER REMOTE X X X X LR
HELPENCMD HELPENCMD X X

LR
HELPHOST NULL X X X X LR
HELPINDEX arg /help/common.hlp/index.txt, /help/common.hlp/keywords.htm, common.hhk X X

Comp
HELPLOC arg ("!sasuser\classdoc"

"!sasroot\core\help"

"!sasroot\nls\en\help")

 X X

LR, Comp
HELPPORT 0 X X X X LR
HELPREGISTER arg none X X

Comp
HELPTOC arg /help/helpnav.hlp/config.txt /help/common.hlp/toc.htm common.hhc X X

Comp
HOSTPRINT HOSTPRINT X X X X Comp
HTTPSERVERPORTMAX 0 X X

LR
HTTPSERVERPORTMIN 0 X X

LR
IBUFNO 0 X X X X LR
IBUFSIZE 0 X X X X LR
ICON NOICON X X X X Comp
IMPLMAC NOIMPLMAC X X X X Macro
INITCMD arg none X X

LR
INITSTMT arg none X X

LR, Comp
INSERT none X X X X LR
INTERVALDS
X X X X LR
INVALIDDATA arg a period (.) X X X X LR
IPADDRESS NOIPADDRESS X X

CONN
JPEGQUALITY 75 X X X X LR
JREOPTIONS See SASV9.CFG X X

Comp
LABEL LABEL X X X X LR
_LAST_ arg _NULL_ X X X X LR
LEFTMARGIN arg 0.000IN X X X X LR
LINESIZE arg varies X X X X LR, Comp
LOADMEMSIZE 0 X X

Comp
LOCALE ENGLISH_UNITEDSTATES X X X X NLS
LOCALELANGCHG NOLOCALELANGCHG X X

NLS
LOG arg filename.LOG in batch mode X X

Comp
LOGAPPLNAME= none X X

Log
LOGCONFIGLOC= none X X

Log
LOGPARM WRITE: BUFFERED ROLLOVER X X

LR
LRECL 256 X X X X LR
Macro Macro X X

Macro
MAPS arg !sasroot\maps X X X X LR,

Comp
MAUTOLOCDISPLAY NOMAUTOLOCDISPLAY X X X X Macro
MAUTOSOURCE MAUTOSOURCE X X X X Macro
MAXMEMQUERY 0 X X X X Comp
MAXSEGRATIO 75 X X X X SPDE
MCOMPILE MCOMPILE X X X X Macro
MCOMPILENOTE none X X X X Macro
MEMBLKSZ 16 MB X X

Comp
MEMCACHE 0 X X X X Comp
MEMLIB NOMEMLIB X X

Comp
MEMMAXSZ 2G X X

Comp
MEMSIZE 100663296 X X

Comp
MERGENOBY NOWARN X X X X LR
MERROR MERROR X X X X Macro
METAAUTORESOURCES none X X

Meta
METACONNECT none X X X X Meta
METAENCRYPTALG arg SASPROPRIETARY X X

Meta
METAENCRYPTLEVEL CREDENTIALS X X

Meta
METAID
X X

Meta
METAPASS none X X X X Meta
METAPORT see SASV9.CFG X X X X Meta
METAPROFILE none X X

Meta
METAPROTOCOL BRIDGE X X X X Meta
METAREPOSITIORY see SASV9.CFG X X X X Meta
METASERVER see SASV9.CFG X X X X Meta
METASPN= none X X X X Meta
METAUSER none X X X X Meta
MEXECNOTE NOMEXECNOTE X X X X Macro
MEXECSIZE 65536 X X X X Macro
MFILE NOMFILE X X X X Macro
MINDELIMITER none X X X X Macro
MINOPERATOR NOMINOPERATOR X X X X Macro
MINPARTSIZE 16777216 X X

SPDE
MISSING arg a period (.) X X X X LR
MLOGIC NOMLOGIC X X X X Macro
MLOGICNEST NOMLOGICNEST X X X X Macro
MPRINT NOMPRINT X X X X Macro
MPRINTNEST NOMPRINTNEST X X X X Macro
MRECALL NOMRECALL X X X X Macro
MREPLACE MREPLACE X X X X Macro
MSG arg !sasroot\core\sasmsg X X

Comp
MSGCASE NOMSGCASE X X

Comp
MSGLEVEL arg N X X X X LR
MSTORED NOMSTORED X X X X Macro
MSYMTABMAX arg 4,194,304 bytes X X X X Comp,Macro
MULTENVAPPL NOMULTENVAPPL X X
X LR
MVARSIZE arg 4,096 bytes X X X X Comp,Macro
NETENCRYPT NONETENCRYPT X X X X DST
NETENCRYPTALGORITHM arg none X X X X DST
NETENCRYPTKEYLEN arg 0 X X X X DST
NEWS arg none X X

LR, Comp
NLSCOMPATMODE NONLSCOMPATMODE X X

NLS
NOTES NOTES X X X X LR
NUMBER NUMBER X X X X LR
NUMKEYS arg varies X X

Comp
NUMMOUSEKEYS arg 3 X X

Comp
OBJECTSERVER NOOBJECTSERVER X X

LR
OBS arg MAX X X X X LR, Comp
ORIENTATION arg PORTRAIT X X X X LR
OVP NOOVP X X X X LR
PAGEBREAKINITIAL NOPAGEBREAKINITIAL X X

LR
PAGENO arg 1 X X X X LR, Comp
PAGESIZE arg varies X X X X LR, Comp
PAPERDEST arg none X X X X LR
PAPERSIZE arg LETTER X X X X LR
PAPERSOURCE arg none X X X X LR
PAPERTYPE arg Plain X X X X LR, Comp
PARM arg none X X X X LR
PARMCARDS arg FT15F001 X X X X LR
PATH arg !sasroot\core\sasexe X X

Comp
PDFACCESS PDFACCESS X X X X LR
PDFASSEMBLY NOPDFASSEMBLY X X X X LR
PDFCOMMENT NOPDFCOMMENT X X X X LR
PDFCONTENT NOPDFCONTENT X X X X LR
PDFCOPY PDFCOPY X X X X LR
PDFFILLIN PDFFILLIN X X X X LR
PFKEY arg WIN X X

Comp
PDFPAGELAYOUT DEFAULT X X X X LR
PDFPAGEVIEW DEFAULT X X X X LR
PDFPASSWORD xxxxxxxx X X
X LR
PDFPRINT HRES X X X X LR
PDFSECURITY NONE X X X X LR
PRINT arg filename.LST in batch mode X X

Comp
PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN PRIMPD= X X

LR
PRINTERPATH arg none X X X X LR
PRINTINIT NOPRINTINIT X X

LR
PRINTMSGLIST PRINTMSGLIST X X X X LR
PRNGETLIST PRNGETLIST X X

Comp
PRTABORTDLGS BOTH X X X X Comp
PRTPERSISTDEFAULT NOPRTPERSISTDEFAULT X X

Comp
PRTSETFORMS PRTSETFORMS X X X X Comp
QUOTELENMAX QUOTELENMAX X X X X LR
REALMEMSIZE 0 X X

Comp
REGISTER arg none X X

Comp
REPLACE REPLACE X X X X LR
RESOURCESLOC arg see SASV9.CFG X X

Comp
REUSE arg NO X X X X LR
RIGHTMARGIN arg 0.000 IN X X X X LR
RSASIOTRANSERROR RSASIOTRANSERROR X X X X NLS
RSASUSER NORSASUSER X X

LR, Comp
RTRACE none X X

Comp
RTRACELOC arg none X X X X Comp
S arg 0 X X X X LR
S2 arg 0 X X X X LR
S2V arg 0 X X X X LR
SASAUTOS arg SASAUTOS X X X X Comp, Macro
SASCMD none X X X X Conn
SASCONTROL SYSTEMMENU MINMAX X X X X Comp
SASFRSCR #LN00003



Conn
SASHELP arg see SASV9.CFG X X

LR, Comp
SASINITIALFOLDER none X X

Comp
SASMSTORE arg none X X X X Macro
SASSCRIPT arg see SASV9.CFG X X X X Conn
SASUSER arg see SASV9.CFG X X

LR, Comp
SCROLLBARFLASH NOSCROLLBARFLASH X X X X Comp
SECPACKAGE NEGOTIATE X X

Comp
SECPACKAGELIST KERBEROS, NTLM X X

Comp
SEQ arg 8 X X X X LR
SERROR SERROR X X X X Macro
SET arg none X X X X Comp
SETINIT NOSETINIT X X

LR
SGIO NOSGIO X X

Comp
SHARESESSIONCNTL= SERVER X X X X Share
SIGNONWAIT SIGNONWAIT X X X X Conn
SKIP arg 0 X X X X LR
SLEEPWINDOW SLEEPWINDOW X X

Comp
SOLUTIONS SOLUTIONS X X

LR
SORTANOM none X X X X Comp
SORTCUT 0 X X X X Comp
SORTCUTP 0 X X X X Comp
SORTDEV the same location as -WORK X X X X Comp
SORTDUP arg PHYSICAL X X X X LR
SORTEQUALS SORTEQUALS X X X X LR
SORTNAME none X X
X Comp
SORTPARM none X X X X Comp
SORTPGM BEST X X X X Comp
SORTSEQ arg none X X X X NLS
SORTSIZE arg 64M X X X X LR, Comp
SORTVALIDATE NOSORTVALIDATE X X X X LR
SOURCE SOURCE X X X X LR
SOURCE2 NOSOURCE2 X X X X LR
SPDEINDEXSORTSIZE 33554432 X X X X SPDE
SPDEMAXTHREADS 0 X X

SPDE
SPDESORTSIZE 33554432 X X X X SPDE
SPDEUTILLOC none X X

SPDE
SPDEWHEVAL COST X X

SPDE
SPLASH SPLASH X X

Comp
SPLASHLOC none X X

Comp
SPOOL NOSPOOL X X X X LR
SQLCONSTDATETIME SQLCONSTDATETIME X X X X LR
SQLMAPPUTTO NONE X X X X ACCESS
SQLREDUCEPUT DBMS X X X X LR
SQLREDUCEPUTOBS 0 X X X X LR
SQLREDUCEPUTVALUES 0 X X X X LR
SQLREMERGE SQLREMERGE X X X X LR
SQLUNDOPOLICY REQUIRED X X
X LR
SSLCERTISS none X X X X DST
SSLCERTSERIAL none X X X X DST
SSLCERTSUBJ none X X X X DST
SSLCLIENTAUTH NOSSLCLIENTAUTH X X X X DST
SSLCRLCHECK NOSSLCRLCHECK X X X X DST
SSPI NOSSPI X X X X AppSrv
STARTLIB STARTLIB X X

LR
STEPCHKPT NOSTEPCHKPT X X

LR
STEPCHKPTLIB WORK X X

LR
STEPRESTART NOSTEPRESTART X X

LR
STIMEFMT M X X X X Comp
STIMER STIMER X X X X Comp
SUMSIZE arg 0 X X X X LR
SVGCONTROLBUTTONS NOSVGCONTROLBUTTONS X X X X LR
SVGHEIGHT INITIAL X X X X LR
SVGPRESERVEASPECTRATIO ELEMENT X X X X LR
SVGTITLE none X X X X LR
SVGVIEWBOX none X X X X LR
SVGWIDTH none X X X X LR
SVGX none X X X X LR
SVGY none X X X X LR
SYMBOLGEN NOSYMBOLGEN X X X X Macro
SYNTAXCHECK SYNTAXCHECK X X X X LR
SYSGUIFONT arg display setting X X

Comp
SYSIN arg none X X

Comp
SYSPARM arg none X X X X Comp, Macro
SYSPRINT arg default system printer X X X X Comp
SYSPRINTFONT arg none X X X X LR, Comp
SYSRPUTSYNC NO X X

Conn
TBUFSIZE arg 0 X X X X Conn, CAM
TCPPORTFIRST arg 0 X X X X Conn, CAM
TCPPORTLAST arg 0 X X X X Conn, CAM
TERMINAL TERMINAL X X

LR
TERMSTMT none X X

LR
TEXTURELOC none X X X X LR
THREADS THREADS X X X X LR
TOOLDEF arg TOP RIGHT X X

Comp
TOOLSMENU TOOLSMENU X X

LR
TOPMARGIN arg 0.000 IN X X X X LR
TRAINLOC none X X

LR
TRANTAB arg none X X X X NLS
UNIVERSALPRINT NOUNIVERSALPRINT X X

LR
UPRINTMENUSWITCH NOUPRINTMENUSWITCH X X

Comp
UPRINTCOMPRESSION UPRINTCOMPRESSION X X X X LR
USER arg none X X X X LR, Comp
USERICON arg none X X

Comp
UTILLOC arg WORK X X

LR
UUIDCOUNT arg 100 X X X X LR
UUIDGENDHOST arg none X X

LR
V6CREATEUPDATE

arg

 ERROR X X

LR
VALIDFMTNAME arg LONG X X X X LR
VALIDVARNAME arg V7 X X X X LR
VARLENCHK WARN X X X X LR
VERBOSE NOVERBOSE X X

Comp
VIEWMENU VIEWMENU X X

LR
VNFERR VNFERR X X X X LR
WEBUI NOWEBUI X X

Comp
WINDOWSMENU NOWINDOWSMENU X X X X Comp
WORK arg !TEMP\SAS Temporary Files X X

LR, Comp
WORKINIT WORKINIT X X

LR
WORKTERM WORKTERM X X X X LR
XCMD XCMD X X

Comp
XMIN NOXMIN X X X X Comp
XSYNC XSYNC X X X X Comp
XWAIT XWAIT X X X X Comp
YEARCUTOFF arg 1920 X X X X LR

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