SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

Glossary
aggregate storage location
a location on an operating system that can contain a group of distinct files. On
different operating systems, different terms (such as directory, folder, or partitioned
data set) are used to refer to an aggregate storage location.
allocation
the z/OS operating system’s term for associating a logical name (DDname) with an
operating system data set. See also assignment.
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
a 7-bit character encoding that is the U.S. national variant of the ISO 646 standard.
The ASCII encoding includes the upper- and lowercase letters A-Z, digits, symbols
(such as &, #, and mathematical symbols), punctuation marks, and control
characters. This set of 128 characters is also included in most other encodings. See
also EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), encoding.
ASCII collating sequence
an ordering of characters that follows the order of the characters in the ASCII
encoding method. See also ASCII (American Standard Code for Information
Interchange), EBCDIC collating sequence.
assignment
SAS software’s internal association between a logical name (that is, a libref or a
fileref) and an operating system data set. For SAS data libraries, an assignment also
associates a SAS engine with the operating system data set. See also allocation.
batch job
a job (program) that is submitted to the operating system for batch processing.
Under z/OS, the job begins with a JCL JOB statement and ends with a JCL null (//)
statement. See also batch mode.
batch mode
a method of running SAS programs in which you prepare a file that contains SAS
statements plus any necessary operating system control statements and submit the
file to the operating system. Execution is completely separate from other operations
at your terminal. Batch mode is sometimes referred to as running in the background.
block
a unit of physical storage on disk or tape that is used for transferring data between
an operating system or an application program and the storage media. Under z/OS,
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