topic Re: how to stop a sas program on a unix server in SAS Enterprise Guide

how to stop a sas program on a unix server

alepage — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:29:26 GMT

Hello,

I am using a unix command such as nohup sas maindriver.sas &

which call many sas macro functions , one at the time...

I would like to add a unix command into on of these sas macro functions to stop execution because I am trying to make some troubleshooting and I want the process stop, until I have found where the problem come from?

Re: how to stop a sas program on a unix server

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:28:50 GMT

You mean that the program should stop itself when it detects a certain condition (e.g. &syscc ne 0)?

Re: how to stop a sas program on a unix server

alepage — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:34:32 GMT

%macro mainfunc;
%m1;
%m2;
%m3;
%m4;
%m5;

%mend mainfunc;
%mainfunc;

Suppose that my mainfunction call m1, m2 , m3, m4, m5

So imagine that in m3, for example, I need to make a libname statement and if the libname does not exist, how can I abort the %mainfunc;

Re: how to stop a sas program on a unix server

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:56:33 GMT

Abort when an error state is detected:

%if &syscc. ne 0 %then %do;
%abort abend 2;
%end;

Re: how to stop a sas program on a unix server

SASKiwi — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 23:59:34 GMT

You could also try the SAS option ERRORABEND which is good for batch jobs.