topic Re: Local vs Remote server in SAS Programming

Local vs Remote server

AJ_Brien — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:31:07 GMT

Hello,

I'm new to SAS and just wanted to get a few concepts right, googling hasn't helped so far.

I run my codes on SAS EG which is connected to SASApp or SAS Metadata server.

Is SASApp a local or a remote server?

When I use winscp, I understand that the left hand side is the local machine and the right hand side is unix. On the right hand side I have a folder called sasuserhome and every user has their individual sasuserhome folders. Is this sasuserhome folder located on local or remote server?

And then there are the actual sasgrid folders that I understand are remote servers where all the production files usually go. How do I transfer files from the sasuserhome server to this sasgrid server? I tried using x cp command but that seems to be not working. Is proc export the way to go here?

Thank you.

Re: Local vs Remote server

34reqrwe — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:55:35 GMT

SASApp is remote .

Sounds like your sasuserhome is remote .

Before you start writing to where 'production files usually go' suggest you talk to your Unix administrators .

If you are copying files you could theoretically do that within winscp if you had the correct permissions.

Or if copying SAS datasets you could do that using a libname. Depends what you are trying to do .

Re: Local vs Remote server

AJ_Brien — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:02:07 GMT

I was able to create the log file in sasuserhome location using 'proc printto log = [path of sasuserhome location]' command but now I need to make sure everyone else can access them, so I need to move them to the sasgrid location to which everyone has access. I tried x cp for doing that but that didn't work. Was wondering how can I make such transfers.?

I tried replacing the sasuserhome path with the sasgrid path in the 'proc printto log' command hoping the log files would directly be created in the sasgrid and I wouldn't have to transfer, but then no files were created at all.

Re: Local vs Remote server

andreas_lds — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:13:13 GMT

@AJ_Brien wrote:

I was able to create the log file in sasuserhome location using 'proc printto log = [path of sasuserhome location]' command but now I need to make sure everyone else can access them, so I need to move them to the sasgrid location to which everyone has access. I tried x cp for doing that but that didn't work. Was wondering how can I make such transfers.?

I tried replacing the sasuserhome path with the sasgrid path in the 'proc printto log' command hoping the log files would directly be created in the sasgrid and I wouldn't have to transfer, but then no files were created at all.

"didn't work" means anything or nothing, please post the error message. To get a solution working in your environment you should talk to your it-staff.

Re: Local vs Remote server

AJ_Brien — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:17:11 GMT

I'm sorry, when I used x cp, then nothing happened.

I have raised a request to get IT support but this usually takes weeks (if they ever contact back), I really can't count on them for any help/ guidance.

Is there any specific question that you have that I can try answering that would help you help me? 🙂

Re: Local vs Remote server

AJ_Brien — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:50:22 GMT

Another thing I noticed, when I try to directly write into the file on the sas grid folder (the one that is accessed by everyone), I get the error: physical file does not exist.

I even tried reading a dataset from that sas grid location and got the same error. However I can access that location through winscp. Is there anything specific I need to do to access that location through my SAS EG code?

Re: Local vs Remote server

andreas_lds — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:18:37 GMT

Maybe SASApp is not allowed to access the shared folder.

Re: Local vs Remote server

AJ_Brien — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:45:17 GMT

Yeah so this is what I did, and looks like it works.

Just got into properties, under code submission selected use grid if available.