Does the temporary library WORK is mounted or does it reside inherently on the system?

[raj231]

HI, I wanted to know if the temporary work space work library gets created every time a session is started? or Does it have a dedicated memory allocated to it?

Can we unmount it if required? Please provide links to any papers which point to above question.

Thank you in advance for your response.

[SASKiwi]

What operating system does your SAS run on? Assuming Windows this reference should help you:

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=hostwin&docsetTarget=n1qr5dmzagn9krn1lt1c276963za.htm&docsetV...

[Patrick · Accepted solution]

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@raj231 wrote:

HI, I wanted to know if the temporary work space work library gets created every time a session is started? or Does it have a dedicated memory allocated to it?

Can we unmount it if required? Please provide links to any papers which point to above question.

Thank you in advance for your response.

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"if the temporary work space work library gets created every time a session is started" - Yes

"Does it have a dedicated memory allocated to it" - No, WORK is a session specific disk space location used for temporary files only required while a SAS session is up-and-running. It gets cleaned out (removed) when the SAS session ends (unless specifically requested otherwise)

"Can we unmount it if required" - If you want to bring SAS to a grinding halt. Each SAS session creates a folder under the path defined in SAS system option WORK (set during SAS invocation). SAS won't function without such a work folder.