Can no longer double-click to open data sets

[smantha]

In the image above as you can see I right clicked on the SAS shortcut icon and selected properties I end up on the other popup window and the field highlighted in blue will have the SAS.exe command and config parameter. You can modify the argument after config to suit your needs. You can create a custom config file and provide it as a parameter to -config

[smantha]

If you get around to modifying config file then you can use fmtsearch as an option in config file.

[JackHamilton]

You also put fmtsearch in your autoexec.sas.

You can set Windows environment variables to specify either an autoexec.sas or sasv9,cfg file without needing to write into a protected directory. You probably have access to user environment variables even if you don't have admin rights.

See:

https://www.mwsug.org/proceedings/2018/SP/MWSUG-2018-SP-100.pdf

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=hostwin&docsetTarget=p0bmj7wjme32ayn1h4wim7trkhp6.htm&docset...

The logic SAS uses to find configuration files in Windows is complicated, and I find setting SAS_USER_CONFIG and SAS_OPTIONS to be the easiest to understand.

[kpberger]

Thank you for the resources. How would adding fmtsearch to the autoexec file help though? It's already set to search in work and then library for formats.