CAS Session Options Listed Alphabetically

A B C D H I L M N S T U Y

Name	Syntax and Description
APPTAG= Session Option	APPTAG="tag-string" specifies a string that is included in the JSON log line of some CAS log messages on the CAS server. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
AZURETENANTID= Session Option	AZURETENANTID="tenant-id" specifies the tenant ID for connecting to a Microsoft Azure storage system in a session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
BIGINTPROCESSING= Session Option	BIGINTPROCESSING=TRUE \| FALSE specifies whether BIGINT processing is enabled for the CAS session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
CASLIB= Session Option	CASLIB="caslib-reference-name" specifies the caslib name to set as the active caslib. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
CMPLIB= Session Option	CMPLIB="caslib-name.cas-table-name <caslib-name.cas-table-name <...>>" CMPLIB='{ {CASLIB= "caslib-name", NAME= "cas-table-name"} <..., {CASLIB= "caslib-name", NAME= "cas-table-name"}>}’ specifies one or more CMP libraries that contain compiler subroutines to include during program compilation. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
CMPOPT= Session Option	CMPOPT="optimization-value <optimization-value <...>>" \| ALL \| NONE specifies the type of code generation optimizations to use in the SAS language compiler. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
COLLATE= Session Option	COLLATE=MVA \| UCA specifies the collating sequence for sorting. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPFMTERR= Session Option	DATASTEPFMTERR=TRUE \| FALSE specifies how SAS reacts when a specified variable format cannot be found. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPMERGENOBY= Session Option	DATASTEPMERGENOBY='ERROR' \| 'NOWARN' \| 'WARN' specifies whether a warning message is generated, an error message is generated, or no message is generated when a DATA step merge is executed without a BY statement. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPMSGSUMLEVEL= Session Option	DATASTEPMSGSUMLEVEL=ALL \| PUT \| NONE specifies the DATA step message summary level. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPREPLACETABLE= Session Option	DATASTEPREPLACETABLE=TRUE \| FALSE specifies whether a DATA step can replace an existing table. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPVARLENCHK= Session Option	DATASREPVARLENCHK=NOWARN \| WARN \| ERROR specifies whether a warning message is generated, an error message is generated, or no message is generated when truncation occurs during a DATA step append. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATESTYLE= Session Option	DATESTYLE=MDY \| YMD \| DMY \| LOCALE specifies the sequence of month, day, and year when ANYDTDTE, ANYDTDTM, or ANYDTTME informat data is ambiguous. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DEBUGOPT= Session Option	DEBUGOPT="DEBUGHOST=host-name DEBUGPORT=port" specifies the host and port for the SAS Code Debugger in a session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DEFAULTMEMORYFORMAT= Session Option	DEFAULTMEMORYFORMAT=DVR \| STANDARD specifies the default memory format for session tables. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DEFAULTTABLEREPLICATION= Session Option	DEFAULTTABLEREPLICATION=integer specifies the default replication factor for new tables for a session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DQLOCALE= Session Option	DQLOCALE="5-letter-locale-code" specifies the default 5-letter SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) ISO locale code to use as the default locale for data quality (DQ) operations. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DQQKBREPOLOC= Session Option	DQQKBREPOLOC="caslib-name" specifies the name of the caslib where SAS Quality Knowledge Bases are stored. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DQSETUPLOC= Session Option	DQSETUPLOC="QKB-name" specifies the name of the default SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) to use for data quality operations. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
HISTORYLINELENGTH= Session Option	HISTORYLINELENGTH=number specifies the number of bytes to use for reporting action names and action parameters in a line of history. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
INTERVALDS= Session Option	INTERVALDS="interval-1=CAS-libref.data-table-1 <interval-2=CAS-libref.data-table-2 ...>" specifies one or more interval-name=value pairs, where the value is the name of a data set that contains user-defined intervals. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
LOCALE= Session Option	LOCALE="locale" specifies the locale to use for sorting and formatting. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
LOGFLUSHTIME= Session Option	LOGFLUSHTIME=–1 \| 0 \| number specifies the log flush time, in milliseconds. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
MAXCORESPERWORKER= Session Option	MAXCORESPERWORKER=integer specifies the maximum number of cores per worker for the session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
MAXTABLEMEM= Session Option	MAXTABLEMEM=integer \| "integer<units>" specifies the maximum amount of memory, in bytes, to allocate for a table. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
MESSAGELEVEL= Session Option	MESSAGELEVEL=ALL \| DEFAULT \| ERROR \| NONE \| NOTE \| WARNING specifies the log message level. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
METRICS= Session Option	METRICS=TRUE \| FALSE specifies whether to include default detailed performance metrics reports in the SAS log. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
NLDECSEPARATOR= Session Option	NLDECSEPARATOR=TRUE \| FALSE specifies whether SAS uses locale-sensitive decimal separators or US English decimal separators (dot) in formatted numeric output. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
NWORKERS= Session Option	NWORKERS=number specifies the number of worker nodes for a new session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
S2FORMATSEARCH= Session Option	S2FORMATSEARCH= "caslib-1.tablename-1 <... caslib-n.tablename-n>" specifies the format search list for format libraries that have been published to SingleStore for use by the SAS Embedded Process. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
SESSIONTABLEREDISTUPPOLICY= Session Option	SESSIONTABLEREDISTUPPOLICY=DEFER \| NOREDIST \| REBALANCE specifies a session table redistribution policy that is applied when the number of worker pods is scaled up on a running distributed CAS server (MPP). Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
SUBSETSESSIONCOPIES= Session Option	SUBSETSESSIONCOPIES=number specifies the number of backup copies to create of subset session in-memory table blocks for failover. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
TIMEOUT= Session Option	TIMEOUT=number specifies the session time-out in seconds for a new or existing session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
TIMEZONE= Session Option	TIMEZONE='time-zone-name < time-zone-offset>' \| 'time-zone-ID' specifies the user local time zone. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
TRANSFERSESSION= Session Option	TRANSFERSESSION=TRUE \| FALSE specifies whether this session is transferred to the new server when a CAS server state transfer occurs. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
USEGPU= Session Option	USEGPU=ALWAYS \| NEVER \| OPTIMAL specifies whether work is offloaded to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), if it is available. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
YEARCUTOFF= Session Option	YEARCUTOFF=number specifies the first year of a 100-year span that is used by date informats and functions to read a 2-digit year. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Last updated: September 16, 2026