topic Scheduling with SAS Management Console vs Scheduling with commercial job Schedulers in Administration and Deployment

Scheduling with SAS Management Console vs Scheduling with commercial job Schedulers

Sajid01 — Wed, 26 May 2021 17:58:23 GMT

Hello All
It is a practice in the business to use Job schedulers like Autosys /,Control-M etc .
I understand that jobs can be scheduled in the SAS Management Console using the SAS scheduling services.
Can anybody enlighten about the relative merits of using Scheduling Services plugin in SAS Management Console. Is it possible to have jobs on different servers/ environment as dependencies?

Re: Scheduling with SAS Management Console vs Scheduling with commercial job Schedulers

gwootton — Wed, 26 May 2021 19:07:51 GMT

Here is the documentation on this topic:

Scheduling in SAS

You can certainly use your existing scheduling system instead of those available in SAS. The options available through SAS Management Console let SAS users / administrators schedule flows within the SAS environment rather than using a separate system, build the individual job commands based on options set in SAS Management Console's schedule manager and using the application server context's Batch Server which applies the options for that context and environment, like a connection to the Metadata Server. Depending on the scheduling server being used the flows can be triggered by time or file events, and in the case of grid schedulers the jobs are submitted as grid jobs so could execute on any node in the grid or have additional grid options applied.

Re: Scheduling with SAS Management Console vs Scheduling with commercial job Schedulers

SASKiwi — Wed, 26 May 2021 20:39:35 GMT

I find the main benefit of scheduling in SMC is that it is all set up to run SAS batch jobs out of the box and it is great to be able to do scheduling as well as other SAS admin tasks all in the same tool. We use it a lot to run ad-hoc SAS batch jobs ("Run Now") when developing and testing code as well as for Production work.

If you used a separate company-standard scheduling tool then you would have to do all of the SAS customisation yourself probably writing and maintaining SAS batch control scripts.