topic SAS Scheduling - no change in log file time stamp? in SAS Programming

SAS Scheduling - no change in log file time stamp?

miriam93 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:48:58 GMT

Dear SAS community,

I started working with the inegrated scheduler of SAS Enterprise Guide.

To test it, I wrote a dummy project containing only one very simple dummy program:

%let Var1 = 'Hello World';

data testdata1;
run;

I then scheduled the workflow to be run once, and according to the schedule history the task was finished. But: The time stamp of the log file of the dummy program did not change. So, the program did not run, did it? And if so, why shouldn't it? I've run these simple lines locally, and they work, so there shouldn't be an issue with syntax.

Also, is there a way to get a log file of the job itself, like

'Running job at THU 4th JAN 2021 12:00:00 PM......

job completed successfully at THU 4th JAN 2021 12:00:30 PM'

and not just the log file of the program?

Thanks for any help with this,

Miriam 🙂

Re: SAS Scheduling - no change in log file time stamp?

AnandVyas — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:45:32 GMT

Hi @miriam93

This KB has few tips related to this topic, see if this helps!

https://support.sas.com/kb/56/648.html

Re: SAS Scheduling - no change in log file time stamp?

miriam93 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:50:43 GMT

Hi 🙂

Thank you so much for this link, it turned out to be quite helpful, not just with this specific issue.
Turns out the reason was that I was running SAS on a remote server and not locally.