topic Re: Validation of dataset creation in SAS Programming

Validation of dataset creation

NathanJohnson — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:36:03 GMT

I'm trying to verify that a data set(s) has been createdwith more than 1 obs. We're running several jobs in sequence using an non-SAS scheduler and need to have a means to output to the UNIX command line the results of an in-job test that validates the creation of 1 or more datasets. Has anyone come across this? I've tried using 'syserr' withlimited success since the creation of a dataset with 0 obs seems to be considered a success. Ideas?

Nathan

Re: Validation of dataset creation

Tom — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:55:16 GMT

Do you want the creation job to abort when it fails to create a dataset with more than one observation?

options errorabend;

data _null_;

if nobs < 2 then abort return 5 ;

stop;

set dsname nobs=nobs;

run;

Re: Validation of dataset creation

NathanJohnson — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:33:07 GMT

This should work. I don't need to abort, but I can still update a macro variable with a value to determine if each of my datasets were validly created and then report to the command line (e.g. 'X echo Success;') for the scheduling software to know the results. Thanks!