SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

412 ARMAGENT= System Option Chapter 18
See Also
3 “ALTLOG= System Option” on page 410
3 “Directing Output to a Printer” on page 116
ARMAGENT= System Option
Specifies another vendor’s ARM agent, which is an executable module that contains a vendor’s
implementation of the ARM API
Default: none
Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options
window
Category: System administration: Performance
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= PERFORMANCE
Restriction: After you enable the ARM subsystem, you cannot specify a different ARM
agent using ARMAGENT=.
z/OS specifics: Length of module name
See: ARMAGENT= System Option in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
Syntax
ARMAGENT=module
module
is the name of the module that contains an ARM agent, which is a program module
that contains a vendor’s implementation of the ARM API. The maximum length for
the module name in z/OS environments is eight characters.
Details
An ARM agent is an executable module that contains a vendor’s implementation of the
ARM API. The ARM agent is a set of executable routines that are called from an
application. The ARM agent and SAS run concurrently. The SAS application passes
transaction information to the ARM agent, which collects and manages the writing of
the ARM records to the ARM log. SAS, as well as other vendors, provide an ARM agent.
By default, SAS uses the SAS ARM agent. Use ARMAGENT= to specify another
vendor’s ARM agent in order to monitor both the internal SAS processing transactions
(using ARMSUBSYS=) as well as for user-defined transactions (using ARM macros).
See Also
3 SAS Language Reference: Concepts.