SAS configuration files

Location of configuration files

Configuration files might be stored in different locations.

When a session starts, SAS tries to read the configuration files in sequence from the following directories:

!SASROOT/sasv9.cfg
!SASROOT/sasv9_local.cfg
~/.sasv9.cfg (With leading dot)
~/sasv9.cfg (Without leading dot)
sasv9.cfg in the current directory
restricted configuration files

These configuration files, except the restricted ones, are skipped when an explicit configuration file is indicated with either

$ sas -config my-configfile.cfg
export SASV9_OPTIONS='-config my-configfile.cfg
export SASV9_CONFIG=my-configfile.cfg

The configuration files that were actually used when the system and/or session started can be shown with the config system options.

~/.sasv9.cfg

/* write immediatly: don't buffer log, instead
   flush available text */
logparm "write=immediate"

/* Don't try to correct misspelled procedure names,
   keywords and global statement names. */
noautocorrect

/* Disable syntax check mode.
   Apparently needed to prevent the stupid
     SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statemnts */
nosyntaxcheck

/* Reduce clutter in log file to minumum */
pagesize=max

Github repository about-SAS, path: /programming/options/_sasv9.cfg