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sasenv_local question

woo — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:56:33 GMT

we are using sas9.4 on linux with grid environment.

Does sasenv_local setting applys to all sas jobs? (batch mode/ interactive fashion/ grid run)? when we have environment variable set up here do we still need to apply it to /etc/profile file for all?

Thank you -

Re: sasenv_local question

nhvdwalt — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:48:42 GMT

Yes, sasenv_local applies to all SAS sessions on that server, regardless where they were called from.

Regarding your second question....It depends. What is the particular setting in question ?

Re: sasenv_local question

woo — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:22:43 GMT

thanks nhvdwalt.

lets say if i have oracle related environment variables set up there in sasenv_local, should i set up at /etc/profile as well?

Re: sasenv_local question

nhvdwalt — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:29:44 GMT

You will place you Oracle variables in sasenv_local. If you have users that will use the Oracle utilities OUTSIDE of SAS, then yes, those values will need to be in their .profile scripts as well. It's unlikely since your users will probably want to connect to Oracle from SAS, but possible.

Re: sasenv_local question

AnandVyas — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 05:28:45 GMT

Hi @woo

sasenv_local is one of the configuration files which is read by the SASFoundation Process that is going to be launched on the server and it would be for all - Batch/Inter/Grid/Manual Submissions.

If you wish to use the variable to be used for all the users using the GRID, then it's enough to use it in sasenv_local file. But if you wish to restrict it to few users only, then you can use the /etc/profile.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
AV

Re: sasenv_local question

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 08:21:24 GMT

Everything that starts a new SAS session uses the {SASHOME}/SASFoundation/9.4/sas script. That is actually not a script itself, but a link to one of the scripts in the {SASHOME}/SASFoundation/9.4/bin directory (sas_{language}, sas_dbcs, sas_u8). These scripts themselves source (include) the sasenv and sasenv_local files located in the same directory.

So you can safely assume that a variable you set in sasenv_local will be set for every SAS session on that server.

Re: sasenv_local question

alexal — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:25:35 GMT

@woo,

>> should i set up at /etc/profile as well?

No, it's not necessary.

Re: sasenv_local question

woo — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:31:06 GMT

Thank you so much all for your commnet,