topic Re: Changing SAS's work library path in New SAS User

Changing SAS's work library path

Ihsan-Mahdi — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:39:34 GMT

Hello. Does anyone have code to redirect SAS temporary files? My C drive is running out of space but I have other drives with enough space left.

Thankyou 🙂

Re: Changing SAS's work library path

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:30:55 GMT

This is set in the configuration file for the SAS session. The location of the configuration file depends on the way SAS is used (workspace server with SAS Studio or Enterprise Guide, or native with Display Manager).

Re: Changing SAS's work library path

Ihsan-Mahdi — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:27:52 GMT

Thank you for responding! I don't have permission to change the configuration file so I was hoping to obtain code that would redirect temporary files temporarily so to speak!

Re: Changing SAS's work library path

Reeza — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:41:57 GMT

Create a library called USER. SAS will then default all WORK tables to this library instead.

You will need to manually delete the files in this library when you're done with it.

libname user 'C:\path to save files';

Re: Changing SAS's work library path

Ihsan-Mahdi — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:44:30 GMT

Thank you! I will try this

Re: Changing SAS's work library path

SASKiwi — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:00:56 GMT

If you are running SAS on a PC using the SAS Windowing Environment then you can create a program short cut including the command: sas.exe -work '<My new path>'

Re: Changing SAS's work library path

PaigeMiller — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 21:36:02 GMT

@Ihsan-Mahdi wrote:
Thank you for responding! I don't have permission to change the configuration file so I was hoping to obtain code that would redirect temporary files temporarily so to speak!

Where I work, we can't change the default CONFIG file. But you can copy it to a place where you do have permission to change it, so you can add in the option now. Then change the startup options to point to this copied CONFIG file (if you are using Windows, you do this in the shortcut that launches SAS, assuming you are using base SAS 9.4), not the original CONFIG file.

Re: Changing SAS's work library path

Ksharp — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:43:06 GMT

/*
1)The best way is change config file.
Add the following command in SASV9.CFG  .
-work 'd:\temp'

2)Also you could try the following code to redirect WORK library.
*/
libname x v9 'd:\temp\';
options user=x;

data class;
 set sashelp.class;
run;