topic get notification when call system task finish in SAS Programming

get notification when call system task finish

GeorgeSAS — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:02:34 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am running the following SAS code to zip files in a folder(mylib) in UNIX server from SAS EG.

data _null_; 
call system ("gzip -r /server1/sasdata/dir1/mylib;"); 
run;

The files are very large and will take long time to finish.

May I know how I can get notification from EG when the task(gzip) is finish?

Thank you!

Re: get notification when call system task finish

yabwon — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:43:21 GMT

Hi @GeorgeSAS ,

I know it's not the "exact" answer but maybe you could do it "indirectly" with a little help of Outlook?

All the best

Bart

options xwait;

data _null_; 
call system ("gzip -r /server1/sasdata/dir1/mylib;"); 
run;

filename sendmail email 'xxx@yyy.zzz' subject='EG gzip done';

data _null_;
   file sendmail ;
   put 'Hi!';
   put 'Done.';
   put 'yours truly';
   put 'EG';
run;