topic Simple Audit Trail in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Simple-Audit-Trail/m-p/95975#M290306 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would like to audit existing sas programs in our organisation that are currently run as part of a batch SAS file.</P><P>These programs have various External Input files, and additional dependencies (work datasets, variables etc) that are created during each run. Is is possible to output a log file that shows for the current running program all the inputs (external files datesets etc) , and ouput files without going through each program individually and analysing?</P><P></P><P>It could be useful then to build this into a run so that each time a batch job is run a quick audit of the files that were used could be incorporated, with an error for each file that is missing or not in the required format.</P><P></P><P>Many thanks </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:18:08 GMT eroche 2013-04-03T13:18:08Z Simple Audit Trail https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Simple-Audit-Trail/m-p/95975#M290306 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would like to audit existing sas programs in our organisation that are currently run as part of a batch SAS file.</P><P>These programs have various External Input files, and additional dependencies (work datasets, variables etc) that are created during each run. Is is possible to output a log file that shows for the current running program all the inputs (external files datesets etc) , and ouput files without going through each program individually and analysing?</P><P></P><P>It could be useful then to build this into a run so that each time a batch job is run a quick audit of the files that were used could be incorporated, with an error for each file that is missing or not in the required format.</P><P></P><P>Many thanks </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:18:08 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Simple-Audit-Trail/m-p/95975#M290306 eroche 2013-04-03T13:18:08Z Re: Simple Audit Trail https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Simple-Audit-Trail/m-p/95976#M290307 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Not sure on how you wish to use this, but maybe could the SAS code analyzer help you?</P><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/65145/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0sf63lx4fs2m5n14qv1bn8p863v.htm" title="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/65145/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0sf63lx4fs2m5n14qv1bn8p863v.htm">Base SAS(R) 9.3 Procedures Guide, Second Edition</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:23:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Simple-Audit-Trail/m-p/95976#M290307 LinusH 2013-04-03T13:23:52Z