topic Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job in New SAS User

Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

DuraiN — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:17:53 GMT

I want to execute a TSO command from my SAS job. I executed the following,

//STEP01 EXEC SAS
//SYSIN DD *

DATA TEST;
TSO DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'

RUN;
/*

The job ended with RC 0 but I see the following (error?) in SASLOG,

1
2          DATA TEST;
3           TSO DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'
4           RUN
4        !     ;

NOTE: The data set WORK.TEST has 1 observations and 0 variables.
NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.00 CPU seconds and 23258K.

Can someone please help me understand what is wrong with this code?

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

Tom — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:23:25 GMT

Your SAS code is missing a semi-colon to end the TSO statement. Also I doubt that you need either the DATA or the RUN statement to execute the TSO statement.

But I don't know if you can actually run TSO commands from JCL batch.

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

DuraiN — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:42:35 GMT

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your response! I was getting the following error (i.e. an exclamatory mark next to the semi-colon) earlier which is why I removed the semi-colon from the TSO statement,

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2           DATA _NULL_;
3           TSO DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'
3        !                              ;
4           RUN;

I saw the following detail in SAS 9.4 Companion for z/OS, Third edition so wanted to check this feature of executing TSO commands from SAS,

TSO Function: z/OS
Issues an operating environment command during a SAS session and returns the system return code.
Restriction:
A TSO command executes successfully only in a TSO SAS session. In a non-TSO session, the command is disabled and the return code is set to 0.
z/OS specifics:
All
SyntaxTSO(command)

Required Argument
command
can be a system command enclosed in quotation marks, an expression whose value is a system command, or the name of a character variable whose value is a system command. Under z/OS, "system command" includes TSO commands, CLISTs, and REXX execs.

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

Tom — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:48:11 GMT

It sounds like you cannot run TSO commands from batch jobs. But why not run the TSO() function instead of the TSO statement and see what return code you get?

DATA _NULL_;
  RC= TSO("DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'");
  PUT RC=;
RUN:

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

Tom — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:51:34 GMT

Why not just use the FDELETE() function instead?

DATA TEST;
  RC1=FILENAME('XXX', 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR');
  RC2=FDELETE('XXX');
  PUT RC1= RC2=;
RUN;

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

DuraiN — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:01:39 GMT

Hi Tom,

I ran the code you suggested, it ended with RC 0 and I dont see any errors from SASLOG (provided below) but the file is not deleted,

1
2           DATA _NULL_;
3             RC=TSO("DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'");
4             PUT RC=;
5           RUN;

RC=0
NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.00 CPU seconds and 23366K

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

DuraiN — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:07:40 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion Tom! but the idea behind testing the SAS-TSO interface was to test the features in current version of SAS and then do the test again after we upgrade the version. But may be I cannot run TSO commands from SAS..

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

Tom — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:16:02 GMT

@DuraiN wrote:

Hi Tom,

I ran the code you suggested, it ended with RC 0 and I dont see any errors from SASLOG (provided below) but the file is not deleted,

1
2           DATA _NULL_;
3             RC=TSO("DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'");
4             PUT RC=;
5           RUN;

RC=0
NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.00 CPU seconds and 23366K

That seems consistent with the documentation text you posted before. You cannot run TSO commands from SAS launched via JCL, only from SAS launched via TSO command.

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

SASKiwi — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:59:47 GMT

To test TSO commands in SAS you need to launch SAS from a TSO command line using: TSO SAS (your launch script may have a different name). I'm assuming that TSO SAS is available to you though.

Re: Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

DuraiN — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:22:13 GMT

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Thanks for your response! Yes we have a TSO SAS session available...will run it thru it