Wednesday, November 19, 2008

SAS System Options in the UNIX environment

SAS System Options in the UNIX environment

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Question:
How do I specify SAS system options in the UNIX environment?

Answer:
How you specify SAS system options depends on how you use SAS in the UNIX environment.
If you use SAS via an X-terminal or X-terminal emulation software such as Exodus or MacX, the command to launch SAS on ITS UNIX systems is
/usr/local/sas/sas

SAS system options are preceded by a hyphen and immediately follow the SAS command. For example, if you want to have SAS write its work files (including temporary datasets) to a directory called "mysasdir" located one level below your own current working directory, the syntax for invoking this option would be:

/usr/local/sas/sas -work ./mysasdir

If you use the SAS display manager system via a vt100 terminal interface such as telnet, the usual command to launch SAS is:
/usr/local/sas/sas -fsd ascii.vt100

The -fsd portion of this command is a SAS option which means "full screen device". You could add another SAS system option to this command, such as the -work option mentioned above:
/usr/local/sas/sas -fsd ascii.vt100 -work ./mysasdir

If you run SAS noninteractively by supplying the SAS program file "mysasprog" in the current directory, you would change your command from:
/usr/local/sas/sas mysasprog
to:
/usr/local/sas/sas -work ./mysasdir mysasprog

This would direct SAS to write any work files to the "mysasdir" directory as it processes the contents of your SAS program "mysasprog".

Each of these examples assumes you want to use a particular SAS system option once or a few times. If you intend to use a SAS system option repeatedly, it can be a nuisance to specify the same option each time you invoke SAS. For this type of situation, you can copy the config.sas612 file located in the /usr/local/sas/sas612 directory and edit it using a UNIX text editor.

The config.sas file is a SAS configuration file that contains default settings for a number of SAS system options; you may change the default settings of these options as well as delete or add options of your choosing to this file. If you then launch SAS from the same directory as the config.sas612 file, SAS will use those options.

1 comments:

SASLearner said...

Hello,

I'm looking for some information to learn OLAP in SAS. I have access to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 and would like some tutorials to learn SAS Business Intelligence. Anybody out there with some ideas?
Thanks.

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