topic Track program dataset dependencies in SAS Programming

Track program dataset dependencies

xio — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:47:19 GMT

Hi all,

how would you track dataset dependencies for a program? That is, given a program, is there a reliable way to tell which datasets it uses?

Simply grep'ing the program source code might not work as the datasets could potentially be referenced using macro variables. Grep'ing SAS log sounds like a better idea, but if a dataset is used by a proc sql, it won't show up in the log unless the proc sql is envoked with "_method" argument, plus modifying the existing codebase isn't always feasible.

Re: Track program dataset dependencies

RW9 — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:10:59 GMT

Run proc scaproc before and after your code run (assuming you have 9.2 or greater) and this will give you information about inputs/outputs, macros etc:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003199745.htm

Re: Track program dataset dependencies

xio — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:06:30 GMT

You know what, that's perfect.