Reserved Variable and Library Names

[Ronni Rubenstein]

Reserved Variable Names

The following field names are reserved and cannot be used in user-defined data structures:

_BATCHESKEY
_DATAKEY
_DATASETSKEY
_PAGESKEY
_PARENTKEY
_PATIENTSKEY
_PROTOCOLSKEY
_RECORDKEY
_SCREENSKEY
_STATUSCODESKEY
_TRACKINGKEY
BARCODE
BATCH
COPY
DESCRIPTION
FRAME
INHOUSEDATE
INVESTIGATORNUMBER
LASTUPDATEDDATE
LENGTH
NAME
PAGENUMBER
PATIENTNUMBER
RECORDID
SEQUENCE
STATUSCODE
TYPE
VISITNUMBER




Reserved Library Names

The following SAS Library Names are reserved and should not be used as custom library names or reassigned in any SAS program code.

__PDATA_
__PSYS__
__PVIEWS
_DETSRV
_TUSERL_
CPCODE
CPDICT
CPDM
CPGLOBAL
CPNDA
CPREPORT
CPSHARED
CPSOURCE
CPSYS
CPTEMP
CPTOOLS
GFORMAT
GMACRO
GTEMPLAT
GVIEWS
PCOVERS
PDATA
PFORMAT
PMACRO
PSCREENS
PSYS
PTEMPLAT
PVIEWS
SFORMAT
SMACRO
STEMPLAT
USER