topic Re: Call Process Flow in Autorun in SAS Programming

Call Process Flow in Autorun

MarcoRQ — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:32:07 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to run a process flow in the autorun ?

Re: Call Process Flow in Autorun

LinusH — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:45:18 GMT

Can you provide with a little more informaiton?

Do you mean a process flow in Scheduling Server in SAS Management Console?

And what do you mena by autorun, do you refer to autoexec?

Re: Call Process Flow in Autorun

MarcoRQ — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:49:50 GMT

Ah yes! Autoexec, not autorun.

I would like to launch autoexec by script and then lauch a specific process flow by calling it at the end of the autoexec code.

I want to automate multiples sas project by script by only executing the autoexec.

Re: Call Process Flow in Autorun

SASKiwi — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 21:29:04 GMT

What sort of process flow? There's a whole bunch of SAS apps that do process flows and we don't know which one you mean. LSF scheduler process flow, EG process flow, SAS Studio process flow, DataFlux process flow etc etc.

Re: Call Process Flow in Autorun

LinusH — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:13:39 GMT

Regardless of what type of process you intend to call, it's not good practice to use an autoexec for this.

The autoexec is typical generic for multiple use cases/users etc.

Orcestrating SAS jobs/programs etc could be done in several ways, what's preferred is absed on your use case/situation:

SAS progam using %include
Windows bat/Unix shell script, calling SAS jobs using program file name as parameter (hint: sysin)
Scheduling software, ranges from simple start on a specific time (cron/Windows task) to more advanced. If you have licensed any SAS software which using "Intelligence Platform" in SAS 9.4, you can use the Scheduling Server plugin in SAS Management Console to administer/control this.