topic How do I access files on my local machine with SAS Enterprise Guide running through a UNIX server? in SAS Enterprise Guide

How do I access files on my local machine with SAS Enterprise Guide running through a UNIX server?

mathmannix — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:24:39 GMT

I am trying to use someone else's code that uses PROC IML, but it doesn't seem to be installed on our windows SAS that can access the local directories. So I guess I have to use the Enterprise Guide we have which only works off of a UNIX server...

Re: How do I access files on my local machine with SAS Enterprise Guide running through a UNIX serve

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:25:40 GMT

Use the Copy Files task in SAS Enterprise Guide to copy local files to any folder on your Unix session. Then you can access them in the Unix file system or via code.

Re: How do I access files on my local machine with SAS Enterprise Guide running through a UNIX serve

mathmannix — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:28:16 GMT

Well yeah, I could copy over all the datasets from windows to Unix through a file transfer program we have. I just wanted there to be a way not to have to do that.

Re: How do I access files on my local machine with SAS Enterprise Guide running through a UNIX serve

Tom — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:31:24 GMT

Here are two options:

1) Upload the files you need to access to the Unix machine.

Enterprise guide might even have some "tasks" you can use to do this for you.

2) Create a shared network location that you can access from both the Windows machine where Enterprise Guide is running and the Unix machine where SAS is running and keep the files there. Note that path used from Windows and the path used from Unix will look different.

Consider a file you can access from Windows as \\server\share\directory\filename.ext

If the systems team has mounted the share \\server\share at the Unix location /level1/level2/level3 for example then the path on Unix would be: /level1/level2/level3/directory/filename.ext