topic Change SYSTEM OPTIONS VARINITCHK and MERGENOBY (LINUX) in Administration and Deployment

Change SYSTEM OPTIONS VARINITCHK and MERGENOBY (LINUX)

oswin — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:53:06 GMT

Hello,

I am new in SAS studio 3.6 administrator and after reading some documentation I found my way to change some system options like VALIDVARNAME and XCMD. Still I am stuck with two other system options I need to change:

VARINITCHK=NOTE => VARINITCHK=WARN

MERGENOBY=NOWARN => MERGENOBYd=WARN

Can someone explain me where or how I can changes this two System Options?

Thanks in advance,

Oswin

Re: Change SYSTEM OPTIONS VARINITCHK and MERGENOBY (LINUX)

RW9 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:16:45 GMT

Should be exactly the same as how you set the other options:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lesysoptsref/64892/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0hlv62ubu3fa6n1co02ezotijyo.htm

Either by options statement, autoexec, or system options.

Re: Change SYSTEM OPTIONS VARINITCHK and MERGENOBY (LINUX)

oswin — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:02:32 GMT

Hi RW9,

Thanks for your reply.

Re: Change SYSTEM OPTIONS VARINITCHK and MERGENOBY (LINUX)

SHurley — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:56:29 GMT

Hi,

Why in the world would someone ever change the MERGENOBY warning? I change the VARINITCHK when I am creating an empty dataset but would never mess with the merge.

- Sharon

VARINITCHK=NOTE => VARINITCHK=WARN

MERGENOBY=NOWARN => MERGENOBYd=WARN

Re: Change SYSTEM OPTIONS VARINITCHK and MERGENOBY (LINUX)

JackHamilton — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:47:43 GMT

MERGENOBY=WARN is a better setting, I think, because it's rare to want a MERGE without BY. It does happen, though; emulating a LEAD function is one use case.