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Can't open sas.exe file in sas studio

xzhao023 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:17:56 GMT

I am using the SAS OnDemand for Academics. I am trying to open a sas.exe file to get the data. I tried this command:

data _null_;
     infile '<myfile.exe> 2>&1' pipe;
     input; * read from output;
     putlog _infile_; * show it in the log;
run;

It gave me error:

Insufficient authorization to access PIPE

I searched the issue and I got this instruction: "to resolve the issue, you need to ask your SAS admin to click the check box "Allow XCMD" within SAS Management Console -> Server Manager -> SAS App - Workspace Server -> properties -> Options ->Advanced Options -> Launch Properties tab"

Seems like really complicated, can someone please help me to run this sas.exe file, thanks a lot!

Re: Can't open sas.exe file in sas studio

Sajid01 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:53:43 GMT

You should read the data set and not sas.exe. Files with exe are compiled machine code.

Re: Can't open sas.exe file in sas studio

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:37:12 GMT

Files with a .exe extension are (if not incorrectly named) Windows executables, which won't do anything on a UNIX system (On Demand runs on Linux).

Furthermore, XCMD is disabled on SAS On Demand, you cannot run external commands in any way.

Data should never be transported in executables tied to a specific system. Get your data in platform-independent readable form (ideally, a text file like CSV).