topic Re: Hide some dataset output from Process Flow window in SAS Enterprise Guide

Hide some dataset output from Process Flow window

JohnT — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:41:11 GMT

Gday,

I have lots of code I want to quickly move to Enterprise Guide.

I like that several SAS jobs can be put onto a process flow and have links to each other.

A pit fall of this is that when I run a job which creates lots of datasets, the process flow window is cluttered and the links become very difficult to see.

Is there a long term solution to this?

I have read that I could prefix all the datasets with _to (http://blogs.sas.com/sasdummy/index.php?/archives/248-Undocumented-features-theres-a-reason-they-are-not-documented.html) but this won't work forever and I wouldn't really want to prefix all my datasets.

Using PROC DATASETS and clearing the files isn't desirable from my point of view, I want to have those datasets there in case I've stuffed up somewhere.

Actually now that I think about it, there's an option to suppress the number of output datasets added to a project, am not sure yet if this will do what I want though. (doing this makes it tricky to perform a task on an output dataset).

Thanks.

Hide some dataset output from Process Flow window

Doc_Duke — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:05:22 GMT

The clutter is the price you pay for not using PROC DATASETS. Mybe you could add the DATASETS after you are sure things are working.

Re: Hide some dataset output from Process Flow window

TimCampbell — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:19:30 GMT

You could always put in the proc datasets step ready to delete all the datasets when you are happy with the process and put in a line at the start of your code

%let g_Debug=Cancel;

then have your proc datasets be something like

proc datasets lib=work nolist;

delete mytable;

run &g_debug;

this way while you are testing the tables will be left behind but when you change g_Debug to be blank then the datasets will get deleted.

also similar question at https://communities.sas.com/message/184224#184224

Re: Hide some dataset output from Process Flow window

SASKiwi — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:59:15 GMT

I have found it useful to change the limit on the number of datasets to add to the Process Flow to 0 as suggested by Quentin in Tim's link above. All datasets are still created but they are not added to the Process Flow. You do get a warning saying the limit has been reached on every flow run, but I can live with that. I think this also helps improve EG performance because it reduces Process Flow maintenance.

Re: Hide some dataset output from Process Flow window

JediApprentice — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:16:40 GMT

@SASKiwi

I know this is an old post, but I am running into the same problem. How do you change the limit on the number of datasets to add to the Process Flow?