If you specify the VERBOSE
system option at SAS invocation, then the settings of all SAS system
options that were set at SAS invocation are displayed in the SAS log.
They are displayed in the sequence in which they were processed.
When you specify the
VERBOSE system option, it is preferable to specify it on the command
line, so that all start–up options are reported. If you specify
the VERBOSE system option in a configuration file, the options that
are processed before VERBOSE is encountered are not displayed.
The settings are written
to your SAS log. If SAS fails to initialize (for example, because
of an unrecognized option specification), the VERBOSE output is written
to the SASCLOG file (normally the terminal when SAS is run interactively).