topic Re: SAS program "disconnected" one from another in SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS program "disconnected" one from another

Andy_SAS_user — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:32:53 GMT

Hello Everybody!

I am currently using SAS Enterprise Guide (7.12 HF9). Today, while working with it I noticed something really weird. For the first time in my life, all the programs seem to be completely independent / disconnected one from the other. For instance, when I defined a macro variable with a %let (at the beginning of a program and not within a macro) the defined macro variable is not read in the successive programs. Moreover, when I use a libname statement to create a library, the library has the same problem of the macro variable: it is not read in the following program so I have to copy the code to next program and define again the library...

Could you please help me?

Thanks a lot,

Andy

Re: SAS program "disconnected" one from another

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:52:32 GMT

If you work in a grid environment, or have enabled parallel processing in EG, this will happen. Each node is executed in a separate workspace server process.

Re: SAS program "disconnected" one from another

jimbarbour — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:26:07 GMT

@Andy_SAS_user,

There's a check box in EG that you want to make sure that it is NOT checked for something like this. Here's a screen shot from my set-up. Yours may vary since we have different versions of EG, but it's going to be something along these lines. If that box is checked, uncheck it. If that's not the issue, then let's talk more.

Jim