topic Save log programmically? in SAS Enterprise Guide

Save log programmically?

AnnaShami — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:03:15 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to save my log and ouput programmitcally to a file using following codes, as this used to work just fine on PC SAS:

I don't see any error as such or notes, but still I don't see any file created at the specified location:

OUTFILE "C:\output.lst";

LOGFILE "C:\log.log";

'OUT; FILE OUTFILE';

'LOG; FILE LOGFILE';

Thanks

Aruna

Re: Save log programmically?

AnnaShami — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:11:08 GMT

Looks like part of it didn't copy over ..here is the whole code:

FILENAME OUTFILE "C:\output.lst";

FILENAME LOGFILE "C:\log.log";

DM 'OUT; FILE OUTFILE';

DM 'LOG; FILE LOGFILE';

Re: Save log programmically?

Barnipaz — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:21:20 GMT

You could check the proc printto.

Re: Save log programmically?

Tom — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:09:00 GMT

That would only work while running interactively so that Display Manager is running. If you are running a batch program or submitting to an execution server then there is no display manager to run the DM comands.

You could use

PROC PRINTTO log = "C:\log.log" print = "C:\output.lst";

run;

But you would need to run that BEFORE the code runs, not after.

Re: Save log programmically?

AnnaShami — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:17:26 GMT

Thanks Barnipaz and Tom.

We have EG SAS on the server. Does that mean the codes I had initially won't work on the server?

Second, I tried Printto it worked 🙂

Thanks