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SASAUTOS=

Language element:	system option
Default:	SASAUTOS system-level logical name
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, System Options window, VMS_SAS_OPTIONS DCL symbol
OpenVMS specifics:	valid values for library-specification

library-specification

can be any valid reference to an aggregate storage location under OpenVMS (directories or OpenVMS text libraries). The specification can be a fileref or an OpenVMS logical name (including search strings) or pathname. OpenVMS pathnames must be enclosed in quotation marks. (Remember that quotation marks used in the SAS command must be double quotation marks unless a symbol is implied, as discussed in INITSTMT=.) Any aggregate storage location specifications that are not enclosed in quotation marks are considered logical names.

Details

Under OpenVMS, the default is the SASAUTOS system-level logical name. If no SASAUTOS logical name is defined and an autocall library is referenced, the following message appears:

ERROR: No file referenced by SASAUTOS OPTION can 
  be opened.
WARNING: Source level autocall is not found or 
  cannot be opened.
Autocall has been suspended and OPTION 
  NOMAUTOSOURCE has been set.
To use the autocall facility again, set OPTION 
  MAUTOSOURCE.

CAUTION:

Do not define a process-level SASAUTOS logical name to override the system-level logical name. Several parts of the SAS System require the macros that are defined in the supplied SASAUTOS files. These parts include SAS/ASSIST software and the PMENU facility under the SAS windowing environment autocall libraries. Here is an example:

options sasautos=('[mymacros]',sasautos);

  

When you specify two or more autocall libraries in the SAS command, you must enclose the specifications in parentheses and use commas to separate multiple specifications. Blanks are not acceptable delimiters in the SAS command, but they are accepted if you specify the SASAUTOS option in the OPTIONS statement.

See Also

• SASAUTOS= system option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

• System option: INITSTMT=

• Autocall Libraries

• SAS Macro Language: Reference

• SAS Macro Language Dictionary

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