Chapter 32: The OPTSAVE Procedure

Overview: OPTSAVE Procedure

What Does the OPTSAVE Procedure Do?

PROC OPTSAVE saves the current SAS system option settings in the SAS registry or in a SAS data set.

SAS system options can be saved across SAS sessions. You can save the settings of the SAS system options in a SAS data set or registry key by using

• the DMOPTSAVE command from a command line in the SAS windowing environment. Use the command like this: DMOPTSAVE < save-location >.

• the PROC OPTSAVE statement.

Some SAS options will not be saved with PROC OPTSAVE. The following is a list of these options:

• ARMAGENT system option

• ARMLOC system option

• ARMSUBSYS system option

• AWSDEF system option

• FONTALIAS system option

• SORTMSG system option

• STIMER system option

• TPSEC system option

• All SAS system options that can be specified only during startup

• All SAS system options that identify a password.