Environment Variables Listed by Product

Base SAS

Name	Syntax and Description
AUTHINFO Environment Variable	Specifies the location of the file in which a user ID and password are kept for authentication, typically called the authinfo file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
IMPORT_COMPAT_VARNAME Environment Variable	IMPORT_COMPAT_VARNAME=YES \| NO; Specifies to implement the former method for generating SAS names based on the names read from the data file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
KNOX_GATEWAY_URL Environment Variable	KNOX_GATEWAY_URL URL Sets the location of the Apache Knox Gateway. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
LUACERTLOC Environment Variable	LUACERTLOC Specifies the location of the certificate used to validate Lua content. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
PATHENCODING Environment Variable	Specifies the encoding for external file references and directory references when the encoding is different from the SAS session encoding. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_DUCKDB_DIRECTORIES_AS_DATA Environment Variable	SAS_DUCKDB_DIRECTORIES_AS_DATA YES \| NO Specifies whether Parquet files in DuckDB are treated as partitioned data files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_DUCKDB_MEMORY_LIMIT Environment Variable	SAS_DUCKDB_MEMORY_LIMIT value Specifies the DuckDB memory_limit value. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_DUCKDB_THREADS Environment Variable	SAS_DUCKDB_THREADS value Specifies the number threads for parallel query execution. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_EP_PROPERTIES Environment Variable	SAS_EP_PROPERTIES=properties Passes properties to the SAS Embedded Process for SingleStore. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_FTP_AUTHTLS Environment Variable	SAS_FTP_AUTHTLS 0 \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 Enables Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_HADOOP_CONFIG_PATH Environment Variable	SAS_HADOOP_CONFIG_PATH pathname Sets the location of the Hadoop cluster configuration files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_HADOOP_JAR_PATH Environment Variable	SAS_HADOOP_JAR_PATH pathname(s) Sets the location of the Hadoop JAR files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_HADOOP_RESTFUL Environment Variable	SAS_HADOOP_RESTFUL 0 \| 1 Determines whether to connect to the Hadoop server through JAR files, HttpFS, or WebHDFS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_PG_FETCHSIZE Environment Variable	SAS_PG_FETCHSIZE value Specifies the number of rows to transfer in a fetch operation. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_PG_USEDECLAREFETCH Environment Variable	SAS_PG_USEDECLAREFETCH YES \| NO Specifies whether to enable the database option UseDeclareFetch for PostgreSQL. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SAS_PI_WEB_AUTH Environment Variable	SAS_PI_WEB_AUTH BASIC \| KERBEROS \| NONE Specifies the authentication method to use for your connection to the PI System. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SASV9_OPTIONS Environment Variable	Specifies the list of SAS system options that are automatically used when you start a SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
SPDE_CONFIG_FILE Environment Variable	SPDE_CONFIG_FILE='pathname' Requests SPD Engine distributed locking by specifying the location of the user-defined XML configuration file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
SPDE_HADOOP_WORK_PATH Environment Variable	SPDE_HADOOP_WORK_PATH='pathname' Specifies a pathname for SAS High-Performance Analytics work files. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
SPDELOCKPATH Environment Variable	SPDELOCKPATH='pathname' Specifies a pathname for the SPD Engine lock directory for HDFS concurrent access. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
SPDEREADLOCK Environment Variable	SPDEREADLOCK NO \| YES Determines whether a Read access lock file is created. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS SPD Engine: Storing Data in the Hadoop Distributed File System
TD_1MB_ROW Environment Variable	TD_1MB_ROW ON \| OFF Specifies whether response row sizes up to 1MB are supported for data on Teradata. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Global Statements: Reference
TK_NLS_REPLACE_ICVEXT Environment Variable	TK_NLS_REPLACE_ICVEXT=translation-table; Access a new transcoding table at startup. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide

Last updated: September 16, 2026