topic Turn Off the SAS Log - How we can do ? in SAS Programming

Turn Off the SAS Log - How we can do ?

NilNidhiEva — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:04:28 GMT

Hi All,

I have very large program and loops in my code, which creating very large log.

so, i am keep getting message that log is full.

i does not need log after my execution.

how, i can completely turn off log generation ?

Re: Turn Off the SAS Log - How we can do ?

PaigeMiller — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:19:19 GMT

PROC PRINTTO will turn off the log being sent to the LOG window.

You can use it to store the log as a text file outside of SAS so that it doesn't appear in the log window; or write the log to a DUMMY file, so the log no longer appears in the log window and isn't saved anywhere.

Examples are here:

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&docsetId=proc&docsetTarget=p08blwp6gwk25mn1hypjjrncx3bn.htm&locale=en

Alternatively

options nosource nonotes;
/* Your SAS program goes here */
options source notes;

Re: Turn Off the SAS Log - How we can do ?

Shmuel — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:13:33 GMT

You can eliminate many lines of being written to log by options:

options nosource nosource2 nomprint nosymbolgen nomlogic errors=1;

Re: Turn Off the SAS Log - How we can do ?

SASKiwi — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:14:40 GMT

How would you know if your SAS program had any errors then? If you run your program in batch mode there is no limitation on log size and your program would probably run faster as well.