You must enclose alternative-separator in quotation marks.
NONE
produces the markup language that is appropriate for the environment where you
run the SAS job.
Windows Specifics
In a mainframe environment, by default, ODS produces a binary file that
contains embedded record separator characters. This binary file is not
restricted by the line-length restrictions on ASCII files. However, if you view
the binary files in a text editor, then the lines run together. If you want to
format the files so that you can read them with a text editor, then use
RECORD_SEPARATOR= NONE. In this case, ODS writes one line of
markup language at a time to ...
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