Chapter 30: The OPTIONS Procedure
Overview: OPTIONS Procedure
What Does the OPTIONS Procedure Do?
The OPTIONS procedure lists the current settings of SAS system options. The results are displayed in the SAS log.
SAS system options control how the SAS System formats output, handles files, processes data sets, interacts with the operating environment, and does other tasks that are not specific to a single SAS program or data set. You can change the settings of
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SAS system options
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in the SAS command
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in a configuration or autoexec file
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in the SAS OPTIONS statement
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by using the OPTLOAD and OPTSAVE procedures
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through the SAS System Options window
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in other ways, depending on your operating environment. See the companion for your operating environment for details.
For information about SAS system options, see the section on SAS system options in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary .
What Types of Output Does PROC OPTIONS Produce?
The log that results from running PROC OPTIONS can show both the portable and host system options, their settings, and short descriptions.
The following example shows a partial log that displays the settings of portable options.
proc options; run;
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Portable Options: APPLETLOC=(system-specific pathname) Location of Java applets ARMAGENT = ARM Agent to use to collect ARM records ARMLOC=ARMLOC.LOG Identify location where ARM records are to be written ARMSUBSYS=(ARM_NONE) Enable/Disable ARMing of SAS subsystems NOASYNCHIO Do not enable asynchronous input/output AUTOSAVELOC= Identifies the location where program editor contents are auto saved NOAUTOSIGNON SAS/CONNECT remote submit will not automatically attempt to SIGNON NOBATCH Do not use the batch set of default values for SAS system options BINDING=DEFAULT Controls the binding edge for duplexed output BOTTOMMARGIN=0.000 Bottom margin for printed output BUFNO=1 Number of buffers for each SAS data set BUFSIZE=0 Size of buffer for page of SAS data set BYERR Set the error flag if a null data set is input to the SORT procedure BYLINE Print the by-line at the beginning of each by-group BYSORTED R equire SAS data set observations to be sorted for BY processing NOCAPS Do not translate source input to uppercase NOCARDIMAGE Do not process SAS source and data lines as 80-byte records CATCACHE=0 Number of SAS catalogs to keep in cache memory CBUFNO=0 Number of buffers to use for each SAS catalog CENTER Center SAS procedure output NOCHARCODE Do not use character combinations as substitute for special characters not on the keyboard CLEANUP Attempt recovery from out-of-resources condition NOCMDMAC Do not support command-style macros CPMLIB= Identify previously compiled libraries of CMP subroutines to use when linking CMPOPT=(NOEXTRAMATH NOMISSCHECK NOPRECISE NOGUARDCHECK) Enable SAS compiler performance optimizations NOCOLLATE Do not collate multiple copies of printed output COLORPRINTING Print in color if printer supports color COMAMID=TCP Specifies the communication access method to be used for SAS distributed products COMPRESS=NO Specifies whether to compress observations in output SAS data sets
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To view the setting of a particular option, you can use the option parameter on PROC OPTIONS. The following example shows a log that PROC OPTIONS produces for a single SAS system option.
options pagesize=60; proc options option=pagesize; run;
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25 options pagesize=60; 26 proc options option=pagesize; 27 run; SAS (r) Proprietary Software Release XXX PAGESIZE=60 Number of lines printed per page of output
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Displaying the Settings of a Group of Options
You can display the settings of a group of SAS system options that have a specific functionality, such as error handling, by using the GROUP= option.
proc options group=errorhandling; run;
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6 proc options group=errorhandling; 7 run; SAS (r) Proprietary Software Release XXX BYERR Set the error flag if a null data set is input to the SORT procedure CLEANUP Attempt recovery from out-of-resources condition NODMSSYNCHK Do not enable syntax check, in windowing mode, for a submitted statement block DSNFERR Generate error when SAS data set not found condition occurs NOERRORABEND Do not abend on error conditions NOERRORBYABEND Do not abend on By-group error condition ERRORCHECK=NORMAL Level of special error processing to be performed ERRORS=20 Maximum number of observations for which complete error messages are printed FMTERR Treat missing format or informat as an error QUOTELENMAX Enable warning for quoted string length max VNFERR Treat variable not found on _NULL_ SAS data set as an error
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The following table lists the values that are available when you use the GROUP= option with PROC OPTIONS.
| Values for Use with GROUP= | ||
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| COMMUNICATIONS | GRAPHICS | MACRO |
| DATAQUALITY | HELP | MEMORY |
| | INPUTCONTROL | META |
| ENVDISPLAY | INSTALL | ODSPRINT |
| ENVFILES | LANGUAGECONTROL | PERFORMANCE |
| ERRORHANDLING | LISTCONTROL | SASFILES |
| EXECMODES | LOG_LISTCONTROL | SORT |
| EXTFILES | LOGCONTROL | |
The following table lists operating environment “specific values that might be available when you use the GROUP= option with PROC OPTIONS.
| Possible Operating Environment “Specific Values for Use with GROUP= | ||
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| ADABAS | IDMS | ORACLE |
| DATACOM | IMS | REXX |
| DB2 | ISPF | |
Operating Environment Information: Refer to the SAS documentation for your operating environment for more information about these host-specific options.
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