SASHELP= System Option: z/OS

Specifies the location of the SASHELP SAS library.
Valid in: Configuration file, SAS invocation
Category: Environment Control: ENVFILES
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= ENVFILES
Default: SASHELP
z/OS specifics: library-specification
See: SASHELP= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference

Syntax

SASHELP=library-specification | (library-specification-1 . . . library-specification-n)

Required Argument

library-specification
is the same as the library-specification described for the LIBNAME statement for z/OS.
You can specify one or more libraries. They are searched in the order in which they are listed.

Details

If the SASHELP= option is not specified, then the value SASHELP is used.
Note: If a ddname is supplied as a library-specification, then the ddname must refer to a single z/OS data set or UFS directory. It cannot refer to an externally allocated concatenation of data sets.
The following example shows one way to assign a list of library specifications to SASHELP:
SASHELP=(UPDATE 'MVS:ORIGINAL.SASHELP')
The first library specification UPDATE refers to a ddname that must be allocated external to SAS. The second library specification refers to the z/OS data set ORIGINAL.SASHELP. The file system prefix 'MVS:' is specified to distinguish this specification from a UFS path. If the system option FILESYSTEM=HFS is in effect, then SAS assumes that ORIGINAL.SASHELP refers to a UFS directory in the current USS working directory.

See Also

APPEND= System Option: z/OS for the correct syntax to use when starting SAS
INSERT= System Option: z/OS for the correct syntax to use when starting SAS
APPEND= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference for the correct syntax to use after starting SAS
INSERT= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference for the correct syntax to use after starting SAS