https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-sysmsg-and-error-in-log/m-p/411147#M279688 <P>Hey All,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>what does the sysmsg actually do? will it retrieve the errors in the log or the errors which we cannot see in the log?</P><P>and is there any difference between SCL error and the error we generally get in the log ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Please help me on this, Thanks.</P> Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:31:35 GMT vijaysas777zx 2017-11-07T12:31:35Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-sysmsg-and-error-in-log/m-p/411147#M279688 <P>Hey All,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>what does the sysmsg actually do? will it retrieve the errors in the log or the errors which we cannot see in the log?</P><P>and is there any difference between SCL error and the error we generally get in the log ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Please help me on this, Thanks.</P> Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:31:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-sysmsg-and-error-in-log/m-p/411147#M279688 vijaysas777zx 2017-11-07T12:31:35Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-sysmsg-and-error-in-log/m-p/411157#M279689 <P>Nothing better than the documentation on these types of questions:</P> <P><A href="http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=sclref&amp;docsetTarget=p17ihv74rlm4amn1kues355p32dh.htm&amp;docsetVersion=9.4&amp;locale=en" target="_blank">http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=sclref&amp;docsetTarget=p17ihv74rlm4amn1kues355p32dh.htm&amp;docsetVersion=9.4&amp;locale=en</A></P> <P><A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000210917.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000210917.htm</A></P> Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:57:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-sysmsg-and-error-in-log/m-p/411157#M279689 RW9 2017-11-07T12:57:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-sysmsg-and-error-in-log/m-p/411161#M279690 <P>Maxim 1: Read the documentation, which is very clear about the function.</P> <P>See here for example: <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000210917.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000210917.htm</A></P> <P>sysmsg() returns the error text of a failed dataset/file access function.</P> Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:00:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-sysmsg-and-error-in-log/m-p/411161#M279690 Kurt_Bremser 2017-11-07T13:00:13Z