topic Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade in SAS Programming

Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

_Hopper — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:24:55 GMT

I recently upgraded to 9.4M9 (Windows). SAS runs fine but I can no longer run any single programs in batch (the context menu contains nothing related to SAS now). How can I fix this?

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

SASKiwi — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:57:21 GMT

Have you tried running a SAS program from the Windows command line like so:

sas -sysin 'c:\MyFolder\MySASpgm.sas'

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

Quentin — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:58:24 GMT

Any chance you upgraded to Windows 11 as well? With win 11 I have to SHIFT-right click to bring up the old context menu which includes Bath Submit. I think there's a registry edit you can make to make the old context menu the default.

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

_Hopper — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:51:35 GMT

It is Windows 11 and right click used to work now it does not.

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

_Hopper — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:52:27 GMT

I don't need this. I can run it using a batch file. That's no problem. I can no longer shift+right click and get a context menu with SAS options in it after the upgrade.

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

SASKiwi — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:21:47 GMT

Providing a screenshot of what you are doing would be helpful.

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

_Hopper — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:26:07 GMT

This is what I see when right clicking on SAS programs now.

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

SASKiwi — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:40:03 GMT

Does this help? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/(article)-restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

Kathryn_SAS — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:11:45 GMT

In Windows 11, have you set the file association for .sas files to The SAS System for Windows as the default? Go to Settings -> Apps -> Default Apps -> Choose Defaults by File Type.

Re: Batch Running Programs After M9 Upgrade

_Hopper — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:34:51 GMT

As it turns out, it took a complete uninstall and clean reinstall for the associations to work correctly. After that was done, no more issues.