FILENULL System Option: z/OS

Specifies whether zero-length records are written to external files.

Valid in:	Configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category:	File Control: EXTFILES
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	EXTFILES
Default:	FILENULL
z/OS specifics:	All

Syntax

FILENULL | NOFILENULL

FILENULL: allows zero-length records to be written to external files. FILENULL is the default value.

NOFILENULL: prevents zero-length records from being written to external files. This type of record is ignored.

If your file transfer program cannot handle zero-length records, you should specify NOFILENULL before you create the file that you want to transfer.