topic Re: SAS LOG not showing information. in SAS Viya

SAS LOG not showing information.

Discaboota — Tue, 30 May 2023 07:28:02 GMT

Hey guys,

I have been using SAS for a year now. Every time I execute a query, SAS log processing starts from

73 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

and after that, the query starts executing and you can see that in the log. But for some time my log is starting from line 1 and end up at line 73 which is,

73 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

after that, I can only see warnings and errors except that no notes or general information is visible.
I am attaching a few screenshots.

Please help me with the process to correct my Logs.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

JosvanderVelden — Tue, 30 May 2023 08:04:59 GMT

See the solution from @Kurt_Bremser in the thread: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Software-for-Learning/What-does-this-mean-in-a-SAS-Studio-log-file-OPTIONS-NONOTES/td-p/444636

For more informtion see: https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/lepg/p119kau8rt2ebgn1bzaipafu6jp3.htm

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Quentin — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:46:42 GMT

This looks very strange. It's like somehow SAS Studio has things backwards. I think it tries to hide the log from much of the "wrapper code" it generates. In this case, it is showing you the log from the wrapper code but then hiding your own code. This happens with every submission, even if you just code:

data want; 
 set sashelp.class;
run;

If you log out, close your browser, and then open it and log in again to start a fresh SAS session, you have the same problem?

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

ballardw — Tue, 30 May 2023 14:33:15 GMT

Question: What do you think NONOTES means as an option?

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Discaboota — Wed, 31 May 2023 04:21:38 GMT

As I can understand from context, it tells the log not to print/show any notes during query.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Discaboota — Wed, 31 May 2023 04:27:30 GMT

I am attaching the LOG for the query.
It has been like this for 3 weeks now. I tried these things but didn't work.
I am really looking for anything now just want to see my logs T_T

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

SASKiwi — Wed, 31 May 2023 04:53:15 GMT

What version of SAS Studio are you using? Looks like you need to change your SAS Studio preferences to see your entire SAS log.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

whymath — Wed, 31 May 2023 06:00:57 GMT

In line 72, "option nonotes nosource" almost prevent everything to print in log.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Discaboota — Wed, 31 May 2023 07:33:30 GMT

Hi whymath,

I get the understanding of this but when I tried using OPTIONS NOTES, it didn't change anything in log.

I have a question regarding this:

If Option nonotes nosource nosyntaxcheck prevent it from printing to log then should nosyntaxcheck also stop it from checking/printing the syntax error. If so it is printing the syntax errors.

Please help me how to put options in SAS if I am doing anything wrong to correct my code logs.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 31 May 2023 07:50:43 GMT

Your OPTIONS statement in line 73 is not one of the default statements SAS Studio sends with every submit; it is either part of your code or set in the individual Studio options.

Remove it, so you get a full log to help you in fixing your code.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Discaboota — Wed, 31 May 2023 10:28:20 GMT

Hey Kurt,
Thank you for the reply.
It is not a part of the code, it is set by SAS.
I tried putting OPTIONS Command but it is not changing anything.
Can you help me with how to change my individual STUDIO options as other users do not have such problem with their log.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Discaboota — Wed, 31 May 2023 10:29:26 GMT

I am using SAS VIya 3.5
I tried changing my options but it didn't work.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Quentin — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:40:00 GMT

It sounds like you have a repeatable problem that is effecting you, but not effecting your colleagues who use the same server. I would suggest contacting SAS technical support for help. They will know more about how Studio hides its log, and what might be going on to make Studio accidentally show its log (from the Studio wrapper) but hide your log (from the main code).

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

Tom — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:55:31 GMT

Check what is in your AUTOEXEC file. SAS/Studio normally disables the LOG messages while it is running the AUTOEXEC file.

There is a menu to let you modify your AUTOEXEC file directly in SAS/Studio.

You should also check the setting of whether or not to show to generated code in the log in the Preferences. Here is where it is in the SAS Studio 3.81 that is being use by SAS ODA.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

JosvanderVelden — Wed, 31 May 2023 14:25:14 GMT

Please run the following code snippit in a fresh sas studio session and analise the log.

OPTIONS NOTES STIMER SOURCE SYNTAXCHECK;

title1 "OPTIONS NOTES STIMER SOURCE SYNTAXCHECK;";

proc print data=sashelp.class(obs=1);
   %put This is the procentput from the first proc print; 
   %put It executes with the options; 
   %put notes stimer source syntaxcheck;
run;

OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

title1 "OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;";

proc print data=sashelp.class(obs=2);
   %put this is the procentput from the second proc print;
   %put It executes with the options; 
   %put nonotes nostimer nosource nosyntaxcheck;
run;

title;

If you still think something is wrong after that then please copy and paste your logfile in an 'insert SAS code"-object in a post.

Re: SAS LOG not showing information.

SASKiwi — Wed, 31 May 2023 23:28:20 GMT

I suggest you open a Tech Support track for this. They are in the best position to figure out what is going wrong for you.