topic Re: installing Clinical Standards Toolkit v1.7.5 (open source) in SAS EG in SAS Enterprise Guide

installing Clinical Standards Toolkit v1.7.5 (open source) in SAS EG

chd1425 — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 07:12:55 GMT

Hello,
I'm trying to install the open source CST to use in SAS EG. Following the install instructions on https://github.com/sassoftware/clinical-standards-toolkit,

I've installed Apache ANT and downloaded the v1.7.5 release package. In the config.properties file (C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASStudioSingleUser\3.8\war\config), I've added the following:

#---SAS Clinical Standards toolkit
SET CSTHOME C:Users\Y.D.Dang_pc\Documents\SAS CST\cstFrameworkLibrary
CSTGLOBALLIB C:Users\Y.D.Dang_pc\Documents\SAS CST\cstGlobalLibrary
CSTSAMPLELIB C:Users\Y.D.Dang_pc\Documents\SAS CST\cstSampleLibrary
insert sasautos '!CSTHOME/macros'
JREOPTIONS (-Dsas.app.class.dirs=!CSTHOME/jar)
SET CLASSPATH !CSTHOME/jar

I'm currently however unable to run any of the programs. E.g. if I run cstvalidate I'm getting the following message:
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference _CST_RC not resolved.
ERROR: A character operand was found in the %EVAL function or %IF condition where a numeric operand is required. The condition was:
&_cst_rc
ERROR: The macro CSTVALIDATE will stop executing.

Is the config file the correct one as I'm using SAS EG.
If correct should I add a '-' before each line. E.g. -SET CSTHOME.... ( The hyphen is originally added in the txt file in sctFrameworklibrary, but it seemed to be a bit odd to have this in the config file)
I'm not able to stop server. Is it automatically stopped if I close SAS EG? A local server on my machine is used.
Any other points that I've missed that might cause these errors?

Thanks,
Yen

Re: installing Clinical Standards Toolkit v1.7.5 (open source) in SAS EG

Ksharp — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:41:16 GMT

You need to initialize the global macro variables before invoking these macros.

/*
%include "C:\cstFrameworkLibrary\macros\*.sas";
*/





/*
initialize the global macro variables needed by the framework
*/
%cst_setstandardproperties(
_cstStandard=CST-FRAMEWORK
,_cstSubType=initialize
);
/*
initialize the global macro variables needed by CDISC SDTM
*/
%cst_setstandardproperties(
_cstStandard=CDISC-SDTM
,_cstSubType=initialize
);






%cst_getstandardsasreferences(
_cstStandard=CST-FRAMEWORK
,_cstOutputDS=sasrefs
);




/*
Create the empty SASReferences data set used in the next
step
*/
%cst_createdsfromtemplate(
_cstStandard=CST-FRAMEWORK,
_cstType=control,
_cstSubType=reference,
_cstOutputDS=work.sasrefs
);




/*
Create the table shells for CDISC SDTM 3.1.3 in the work library
*/
%cst_createtablesfordatastandard(
_cstStandard=CDISC-SDTM
,_cststandardVersion=3.1.3
,_cstOutputLibrary=work
);

Re: installing Clinical Standards Toolkit v1.7.5 (open source) in SAS EG

chd1425 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:09:23 GMT

Thanks, but I'm still getting errors. I believe the CSTvalidate is still giving a setup error and there are several libraries missing.

Re: installing Clinical Standards Toolkit v1.7.5 (open source) in SAS EG

Ksharp — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:50:41 GMT

Yeah. I think you need re-install CST again according to its documentation.

Or contact with sas support .