topic Re: Schedule automat run in SAS Programming

Schedule automat run

Ronein — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:32:11 GMT

Hello
I want to shedule running of sas program ( or sas project) everyday at same time.
The running should be done everyday even if my computer is logged of.
If there is any error ( for example problem to connect server) then the next run will occur normally the day after.
What way do you recommend me to do it?
Would you recommend do it via sas?
Or via other program?
What is the disadvantage of doing it with sas?
What is the advantage of doing it via sas?

Re: Schedule automat run

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:10:09 GMT

If your SAS server runs on UNIX, the easiest way is to create a crontab entry.

Re: Schedule automat run

SASKiwi — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 23:41:35 GMT

If you are referring to SAS Enterprise Guide projects, then these can only be scheduled on a computer where EG is installed.

The options are covered in EG documentation.

If you just want to schedule a SAS program, then my preference is to use SAS Management Console's Schedule Manager. That works OOTB by filling in a few screens, assuming it has already been configured. It is all server-based which is very reliable and robust.

There are a lot of other options for scheduling SAS programs which you can read about in the SAS doc here.

I suggest you also discuss your scheduling requirements with your SAS administrator as they may already have SAS scheduling configured and a preferred option for you to use.

Re: Schedule automat run

Ronein — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 03:39:13 GMT

Is crontab an issue in Linux or in sas?? How can I do it? Step by step...

Re: Schedule automat run

Tom — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 03:49:17 GMT

@Ronein wrote:
Is crontab an issue in Linux or in sas?? How can I do it? Step by step...

crontab is the Unix command you can use to schedule jobs (tasks) for the cron deamon to launch. You can read about it on Unix manuals and tutorials.

Basically you schedule the Unix command you want to run. Do you know how to run your SAS program from the Unix prompt? If your environment is setup as it has been for the last 30 or so years since SAS was first released for Unxi the syntax is just:

sas myprogram.sas

Of course there are many options you migth want to add. Like where to write the SAS log. In the example above the log will be written to myprogram.log in the current working directory.

For running via cron the two things that come to mind immediately that you will need to handle are

(1) Make sure you set the current working directory first so it can find and write files in the correct place

(2) Make sure you run your normal login scripts so the environment variables and settings you normally have (and your code probably expects) are available. The default with cron is those are not run.

Re: Schedule automat run

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:14:32 GMT

Maxim 6: Google Is Your Friend.

Do a search for "crontab", which will lead you to this documentation (Maxim 1!) page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/crontab.1.html