SAS Companion for UNIX Environments

Data Set Options Under UNIX

This chapter describes SAS data set options that have behavior or syntax that is specific to UNIX environments. Each data set option description includes a brief "UNIX specifics" section that tells which aspect of the data set option is specific to UNIX. Each data set option is described in both this documentation and in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.

Specify data set options following the data set name in SAS statements as follows:

...data-set-name(option-1=value-1 option-2=value-2...)

A few data set options are also SAS system options (for example, BUFSIZE=). If the same option is specified both as a system option and as a data set option, the SAS System uses the value given after the data set name. See Customizing Your SAS Session and SAS System Options for more information on SAS system options.

See Summary of SAS Data Set Options for a table of all of the data set options available under UNIX.

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