topic Re: program fails in batch mode, runs fine in windowed mode in SAS Enterprise Guide

program fails in batch mode, runs fine in windowed mode

user24feb — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:30:27 GMT

Hello,

When I run a certain process flow in Enterprise Guide in batch I get the following error message:

ERROR: You cannot open xxx for output access with member-level control because
xxx.DATA is in use by you in resource environment IOM ROOT COMP ENV.

If I run the programs separately, I don't get an error message. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks & kind regards

Re: program fails in batch mode, runs fine in windowed mode

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:17:58 GMT

You most probably have "add results to project" and "open results automatically" activated. So one of your nodes creates a dataset, which is automatically added to the project tree and open for display in the background, while the next node wants to overwrite that dataset.

Re: program fails in batch mode, runs fine in windowed mode

RB1Kenobi — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:21:53 GMT

Two thoughts from me:

1. Have you checked that your batch EG and windowed EG are using the same autoexec (check the logs)?

2. Are you using %sysfunc(open(.....)) wihin your code? If so, are you closing the dataset with %sysfunc(close(...)) as it could be that the table is remaining open and therefore locked for user access.