In reply to Jim Hess.

I checked with SAS R&D, and this is the first time they have heard of a request for this feature. Please remember that files come and go in the SASWORK area during the SAS session and when SAS shuts down properly they are deleted to make room for the next SAS session to create files in.

With all the SAS sessions using a single directory/folder for SAS WORK, the space will be overwritten often, so that should help with making sure your sensitive data can not be restored.

Please let me know if you have questions on this information.