topic Re: SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue in Administration and Deployment

SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue

kheger — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:24:14 GMT

I am trying to run a 9.3 SAS script in Linux in the following manner but I only get the.log output.

exec myproc.sas -log a/b/c/output.log -print a/b/c/output.lst

Any idea about what causes the .lst file to not be produced?

Many thanks

Re: SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue

SASKiwi — Thu, 07 May 2015 20:17:34 GMT

Two reasons are:

SAS job does not contain any steps printing output.

SAS job re-directs printed output internally.

What does the SAS log report?

Re: SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue

mebass — Thu, 07 May 2015 20:29:50 GMT

The PRINT system option only applies in batch mode, but that looks like what you’re using. Also, as SASKiwi says, be sure your proc is producing output.

You can try using the ALTPRINT option to specify that output goes to the default output file and to the file that you specify. If that works, I wonder if there isn’t a –NOPRINT somewhere (possibly in a config file?) that’s overriding your –PRINT setting?

ALTPRINT: Using SAS System Options to Route Output: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostunx/63053/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p135tcvpnrcytnn1ga7m5d90w595.htm

You can check to see what the system setting for the PRINT system option is by invoking the VALUE option in the OPTIONS statement. See an example here:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostunx/63053/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0st7h83w14sqwn1p3gnu1j7s260.htm

Re: SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue

kheger — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:22:05 GMT

It reports

options nomprint nomlogic nosymbolgen nosource noquotelenmax;

Re: SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:28:43 GMT

What steps are in myproc.sas?

(Just list the data .... and proc .... lines)

Re: SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue

kheger — Fri, 08 May 2015 08:30:52 GMT

The script is indeed run in batch mode.

The -altlog - altprint produced the same result (i.e. only log generated).

The value of PRINT gave the following output:

Option Value Information For SAS Option PRINT

Value: /a/b/c/output.lst

Scope: Program

How option value set: Internal

Re: SAS Companion - Unix Command - Print Issue

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 08 May 2015 12:11:41 GMT

Well, none of the steps produce any output, so it's perfectly OK that no .lst file is created.