topic Re: User SAS Session vs batch jobs session in Administration and Deployment

User SAS Session vs batch jobs session

sathya66 — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:07:31 GMT

All,

When end users open a SAS Session(ex: EG) , SAS creates a work and util folder to process temp data and some for util procedures (ex:/saswork/SAS_workEAB0001_Server.com and /saswork/SAS_UtilEAB0001_Server.com). is it same for batch jobs? is it uses same location (/saswork) to process temp data?

Thanks,

Re: User SAS Session vs batch jobs session

andreas_lds — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:52:53 GMT

@sathya66 wrote:

All,

When end users open a SAS Session(ex: EG) , SAS creates a work and util folder to process temp data and some for util procedures (ex:/saswork/SAS_workEAB0001_Server.com and /saswork/SAS_UtilEAB0001_Server.com). is it same for batch jobs? is it uses same location (/saswork) to process temp data?

Thanks,

SS

Depends on the cfg-files used to start the session. It could be the same directory, but it is not that likely, that in both cases WORK is created in the same location.

Re: User SAS Session vs batch jobs session

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:19:32 GMT

If your setup has been done correctly, and you use BatchServer/sasbatch.sh, then this should be the same, as any changes to WORK and UTILLOC would have been made one directory closer to root (SASApp or equivalent), from where both BatchServer and WorkspaceServer inherit the settings.

Re: User SAS Session vs batch jobs session

AnandVyas — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:59:38 GMT

If you are using vanilla install with no changes, yes it should be the same. If users are running batch jobs from command line they have the option to override these values by creating a copy of these files in the home folder. However you can lock this behavior using the system option mentioned in this link.
https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=biasag&docsetTarget=n24001intelplatform00srvradm.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en