topic Re: Batch submit option in SAS Linux license in Administration and Deployment

Batch submit option in SAS Linux license

jkaran123 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:34:07 GMT

Hi,

Is there any way to possibly create a Right click batch submit option in SAS Linux license or by default any option of batch submission.

Or it's any way to create the option using batch script or any other way to possible please suggest us.

Thank you

Re: Batch submit option in SAS Linux license

rudfaden — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 09:31:47 GMT

There is no button in the sas editor for batch submit. But you can batch submit from the terminal. Ask your admin for the command.

SAS Help Center: Batch Mode in UNIX Environments

Re: Batch submit option in SAS Linux license

AllanBowe — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:07:29 GMT

If you're running regular Foundation SAS (no EBI / Viya etc) one option could be to install SASjs Server and use that as your batch executor.

Docs are here: https://server.sasjs.io

It's an MIT open source REST API for SAS, works on both windows & linux. You can trigger batch jobs by right click (launch Stored Program) or by calling the API endpoints from another application.

Re: Batch submit option in SAS Linux license

Sajid01 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:22:07 GMT

Yes it is indeed possible to run a batch script by double clicking it on the Linux desktop for example gnome desktop.
A simple and rudimentary approach is given below. It is assumed that SAS is locally installed. You need to experiment a bit.
I don't have SAS installed on the Linux Desktop and haven't tested it. (Linux servers typically don't have a desktop environment installed).
Step 1: Create a batch script say myscript.sh to run the sas program and make it executable.
This could be something like this. Modify to suit your needs.

/full_path_to_sas_executable/sas myprog.sas

Step 2:Create a script myscript.desktop and keep on the desktop. The content of the script will be as follows. Make appropriate changes to reflect your situation.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=MyScript
Comment=Test hello world script
Exec=/home/user/yourscript.sh
Icon=/home/user/youricon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Step 3: Double clicking the MyScript on the desktop will run the script myscript.sh

It is possible to have a more refined system using dialog of zenity or may be GTK+ or Java. It would be techically possible to select the batch script to be executed. Adequate programming skills on the Linux environment needed.

Re: Batch submit option in SAS Linux license

Quentin — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:05:23 GMT

Can you say more about your use case?

When you say right-click, that suggests you've got a GUI environment running on linux? If so, which one?

Typically on a simple SAS install running on linux, batch submitting a sas program at a command prompt is as simple as:

sas myprogram.sas

If you've got a SAS9 metadata server it's slightly more complicated, but I think SAS provides a shell script, sasbatch.sh, to help with all the configuration/metadata server stuff. On my server, you can batch submit from a command prompt something like:

sasbatch.sh  -sysin ~/myprogram.sas

EG never added a batch submit button, sadly. I haven't used Studio, but I thinik it has a "background submit" button which is a batch submit.

Re: Batch submit option in SAS Linux license

SASKiwi — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:56:19 GMT

If you have a metadata-enabled SAS installation on Linux which means you have a working metadata tier, then the easiest way to run batch jobs in my opinion is to use the Schedule Manager functionality in SAS Management Console. If you aren't familiar with SMC, it is a PC-installed tool that allows you to connect to your SAS server and run or schedule batch jobs via a GUI - you avoid using command lines completely.

Schedule Manager automatically builds and runs a SAS batch command line behind the scenes and puts all of the batch logs in one folder, nicely time and date stamped so they are all in one place and in time order.