topic Re: problems with logs in SAS Programming

how NOT to create log at all?

olgazabelinasas — Wed, 13 May 2020 08:46:20 GMT

Hello everyone!

I use SAS Studio.
I start the process through the "Background Submittion" button.

And then a very large log is created, which I absolutely do not need 🙂
Tell me, is there a command that prohibits creating a log at all?

So I inserted this command at the beginning of the process and started it again 🙂

problems with logs

olgazabelinasas — Wed, 13 May 2020 08:44:42 GMT

Hello everyone!

I use SAS Studio.
I start the process through the "Background Submittion" button.

And then a very large log is created, which I absolutely do not need 🙂
Tell me, is there a command that prohibits creating a log at all?

So I inserted this command at the beginning of the process and started it again 🙂

Re: how NOT to create log at all?

Jagadishkatam — Wed, 13 May 2020 08:51:58 GMT

There is no way we can avoid creating the log, its a default

Re: how NOT to create log at all?

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 13 May 2020 08:54:50 GMT

Use

options nosource nonotes;

to reduce the log to only WARNINGs and ERRORs. But keep in mind that this complicates debugging.

Re: problems with logs

ed_sas_member — Wed, 13 May 2020 08:58:05 GMT

Hi @olgazabelinasas

There are some interesting options such as NOSOURCE or NONOTES to suppress information from the log-> please find here a more extensive description: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=basess&docsetTarget=p0rgzxi5r1euj0n14epck6v9l2hm.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

However, keep in mind that the log is a great effective problem-solving tool.

So I would suggest to use this kind option only in "production", once the program you've developed has already been debugged.

Best,

Re: how NOT to create log at all?

yabwon — Wed, 13 May 2020 10:19:12 GMT

Hi,

maybe this will help:

/* "turn-off" the log */
filename f DUMMY;
proc printto log=f;
run;

/* put wahatever you want here */
data test;
 x = 17;
 putlog x=;
run;
data 123;
run;
/* put wahatever you want here */

/* restore log */
proc printto;
run;

You will get: no info, no notes, no source, no warnings, and no errors at all.

All the best

Bart

Re: how NOT to create log at all?

olgazabelinasas — Thu, 14 May 2020 06:12:17 GMT

thank you!!!

Re: how NOT to create log at all?

olgazabelinasas — Thu, 14 May 2020 06:12:42 GMT

thank you 🙂

Re: problems with logs

olgazabelinasas — Thu, 14 May 2020 06:13:00 GMT

thank you ))) i will try

Re: how NOT to create log at all?

olgazabelinasas — Thu, 14 May 2020 06:13:19 GMT

thank you