Overview of Setting Up Your SAS Session

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Setting Up Your SAS Session

Lesson Overview

Introduction

When you begin a SAS session, it's often convenient to set up your environment first. For example, you may want to

define libraries that contain the SAS data sets that you intend to use
specify whether your procedure output is created as an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) document, a SAS listing, or both
set features of your SAS listings, such as whether the date and time appear.

This lesson shows you how to define libraries, reference SAS files, and specify options for your SAS session. You also learn how to specify the form(s) of output to produce.

SAS program, SAS libraries, and SAS system options

This lesson contains 32 pages and takes appproximately 45-60 minutes to complete.

Objectives
In this lesson, you learn to

define new libraries by using programming statements
reference SAS files to be used during your SAS session
set results options to determine the type of output produced (HTML, SAS listings, or both) in desktop operating environments
set system options to determine how date values are read and to control the appearance of listing output created during your SAS session.

Prerequisites
Before taking this lesson, you should have completed the following lessons:
Introduction to SAS Programming

Working in the SAS Environment
Basic Concepts
Editing and Debugging SAS Programs