topic Re: Error in setting up Schedule Flow in SMC in Administration and Deployment

Error in setting up Schedule Flow in SMC

Raven01 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:46:34 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to schedule the run of a SAS Program in SMC using the steps provided in pages 5 - 8 in http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings16/11202-2016.pdf.

I am logged in as a SAS admin. However, when I clicked OK, the error is as below:

Scheduling of 'New_Job' failed. ('Submission of generated code to server failed.  
ERROR: Creation of Scheduled Task New_job failed. A task already exists with that name.
ERROR: ScheduleFlow(): A system call to ITaskScheduler::NewWorkItem failed.  Windows Error Code: 

18446744071562526800  The file exists. 
ERROR: One or more flows were not successfully scheduled.').

These are settings that I have applied to my new job:

Scheduling Server: Operating System Services - VA server

SAS Batch Server: SASVA - SAS DATA Step Batch Server

Directory: Batch Jobs

Location : /Shared Data/SAS Data Integration/Job

How can I successfully setup the scheduling of my SAS Code?

Re: Error in setting up Schedule Flow in SMC

sandykota — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 05:46:16 GMT

Hi,

which operating system you are using?

If Unix, hope the below web link helps:

http://support.sas.com/kb/46/348.html

Re: Error in setting up Schedule Flow in SMC

Raven01 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 05:55:59 GMT

Thanks for the link, but I am using Windows.

Re: Error in setting up Schedule Flow in SMC

JuanS_OCS — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:20:08 GMT

Hello @Raven01,

you will need to delete a task in the windows task scheduler, that has the same name, then you can schedule the new one.

In case it does not exist this task, it means you will need permissions on certain folders on the C drive. And, in this case, or either you need a user that is administrator on both SAS environment and the Windows server, or you will need your Windows admin to granto you permissions to be able to schedule tasks.

Re: Error in setting up Schedule Flow in SMC

Raven01 — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:17:18 GMT

Thanks for the response, @JuanS_OCS. I am using Local SAS Administrator account. Are these the folders I should give access to?

D:\SAS\Config\Lev1\SASVA\SASEnvironment\SASCode\Jobs
D:\SAS\Config\Lev1\SASVA\BatchServer\Logs
D:\SAS\Config\Lev1\SASVA\BatchServer\Output
D:\SAS\Config\Lev1\SASVA\BatchServer\sasbatch.bat

Re: Error in setting up Schedule Flow in SMC

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:35:02 GMT

Hello @Raven01,

did you check if that task is already scheduled?

About your question, what you might need access to would be more on the Windows Tasks folder and Windows registry:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913816/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-scheduled-tasks-folder