Overview of Environment Variables

UNIX environment variables are variables that apply to both the current shell and to any subshells that it creates. The way in which you define an environment variable depends on the shell that you are running. For more information, see Defining Environment Variables in UNIX Environments in SAS Companion for UNIX Environments.
z/OS environment variables are specified in a SAS data set that is referred to as the TKMVSENV data set file. For more information about setting environment variables in the TKMVSENV file, seeTKMVSENV File in SAS Companion for z/OS.
For Windows, you can choose to define a SAS environment variable using the SET system option or to define a Windows environment variable using the Windows SET command. For more information, see Using Environment Variables in SAS Companion for Windows.