SAS Log Error Checking Tool

The SAS Log Error Checking Tool allows you to examine and check any SAS log for Error
and Warning messages. You can also customize the tool to search for additional messages.

A list will be displayed of any messages that were found in the log file. If you click on the Search link
for a message, you can easily search and view SAS Usage Notes that are associated with that message.

Follow these steps to use the tool:

1. Click the Select Log button to browse and select a SAS log file that you want to examine.

2. Or, if you prefer, you can Drag and Drop a SAS log file from a Windows Explorer window
   into the Text Box at the top of the page.

3. Or, you can right-click on a log file and open it with this tool.

4. Click the Check Log File button to check the log file for Error and Warning messages.

5. If any messages are found, they will be displayed in the Browser window.
   A Search link will be shown for each message.

6. Click the Search link to search for SAS Usage Notes that are associated with a specific message.

7. Use the Back and Forward buttons to control the Web browser display.

Tips for searching for SAS Usage Notes

• You can easily modify the keywords that are used when searching the SAS Usage Notes
  for a specific error message by following these steps:

  1. In the Messages Report window (of messages that were found in a SAS log file),
     Highlight and Copy a portion of the message for which you want to search the SAS Usage Notes.

  2. Click the "Search" button by the error message to search for SAS Usage Notes.

  3. On the search engine page, modify the search keywords.
     Remove the default keywords that are used (between the quotes).
     Then, Paste the new keywords that you want to use (between the quotes).

  4. Search the SAS Usage Notes using the new keywords.
     
     

• In the Messages Report window, you can right-click on a "Search" link and select
  "Open in new window" to view associated SAS Usage Notes in a new Web browser window.

• If you get too many hits, you might want to add an additional keyword to the search query
  (based on the text in the message).

• If you get too few hits or no hits, you might want to remove a keyword from the search query.

• If the search query contains any unique names such as a variable name or a specific
  data set name, then you may need to remove this name from the search query.

• If you get too few hits or no hits, then remove the quote marks from the text of the query.

Configuration Information

• You can customize the log checking by adding messages to the Messages_Config.txt file.
  In addition to Error messages and Warning messages, the SAS log files will be checked
  to determine if they contain any of these additional messages.
  This file can contain up to 500 messages.

• The configuration settings are specified in the Properties_Config.txt file.
  You can modify the directives in this file. An explanation of each directive is provided in the file.

• The Messages_Config.txt file and Properties_Config.txt file are located in the same directory
  as the exe file for this application. Click the above links to view the files. Then, right-click in the
  Web Browser window and select "Properties" to view the file location.
  You can edit these files using a Text Editor.

Additional Notes

• If you modify either of the configuration files, then you must restart the application to retrieve the new settings.

• If you deselect "Show Warning messages", only Error messages will be displayed.
  Otherwise, both Error and Warning messages will be displayed.

• For more information, see More Resources

If you have questions or comments, contact David Shinn at david.shinn@sas.com