topic Re: Disable SAS pop-up in SAS Programming

Disable SAS pop-up

antenga — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:46 GMT

How do you disable this SAS pop-up? Have clicked on the 'Don't show this dialog box again' but it still re-appears every time I start up a SAS session. Please advice.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

SASKiwi — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:38:16 GMT

I suspect this behaviour is due to your SASUSER library being set to read-only so customisations can't be saved.

To confirm if this is the case run: PROC OPTIONS and check if the RSASUSER option is set.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

Reeza — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 01:08:41 GMT

Look at the message in the log, right behind your pop up. When you make this change make sure it's in the only SAS instance running so the options can be saved.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

antenga — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 02:10:12 GMT

I ran the proc options as suggested. and I get this result in regards to SASUSER :-

NORSASUSER Opens the Sasuser library in Write mode.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

ShiroAmada — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 02:11:20 GMT

The option to disable may have been applied to your original (first sas session). Any new session, sas will revert to default. And log says something about your settings too.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

antenga — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 02:28:49 GMT

I probably should have updated in detail how I get this pop-up screen. This screen is disabled in my initial screen when I start SAS for the first time but when another SAS session is triggered ( e.g. when a local SAS ODBC connection is invoked), then I get this pop-up screen on my second SAS session.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

antenga — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 02:30:47 GMT

Is there a sas option that I could use?

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

SASKiwi — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 03:00:16 GMT

This is a "feature" of opening a second SAS Windowing Environment session. Your first session has locked the SASUSER.PROFILE catalog where your preference is stored, so the second session is unable to open it.

If you started BOTH of your sessions with the -RSASUSER option I think it will disable the pop-up. You could test this from the Windows Run box by running SAS -RSASUSER twice.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

antenga — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 04:23:35 GMT

I used that option on my startup sas but it did not work. My code starts up a separate SAS session for an ODBC connection as it's refreshing a pivot table from a SAS table and that SAS session still has the pop-up.

If I run multiple SAS sessions on my PC, it does not show the pop-up for each session.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

SASKiwi — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 05:23:51 GMT

In that case you haven't fully explained how you are starting your problematic SAS session and what it is doing. Please provide these details.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:49:40 GMT

- Start a SAS session with norsasuser

- disable the popup

- close the SAS session

- change the option in the configuration to rsasuser

After that, all concurrent SAS sessions should have read access to your sasuser.profile and respect the setting.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

antenga — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 23:39:36 GMT

Hi Kurt,

I tried your suggestion but it still shows the pop-up screen only when the main sas session triggers another SAS screen e.g. the ODBC connect session.

Re: Disable SAS pop-up

antenga — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:27:07 GMT

I got a reply from SAS regarding this and it solved my problem.

I added the -NOTUTORIALDLG in my sas config file.