https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Results-differ-when-running-a-program-in-Enterprise-Guide-versus/m-p/954830#M45652 <P>Submitting a program to run in SAS® should return the same results whether it runs as a background job, runs interactively, or is submitted using&nbsp;SAS® Enterprise Guide® (or SAS® Studio).&nbsp; You might experience a situation where this does not appear to be the case and wonder what is happening.&nbsp; Remember that in each scenario, you are running a SAS session that is configured by its option settings.&nbsp; While the standard configuration options for the SAS session are likely the same, the individual SAS clients might contain specific option settings.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>These option settings can be affected by pre-code submitted by the SAS client or options settings that are controlled by preferences within the client.&nbsp; Option settings that can affect results are FMTERR/NOFMTERR and VALIDVARNAME=.&nbsp; If you are seeing differences in programs that are submitted using different methods, you might want to issue a PROC OPTIONS statement to compare the settings between the two environments.&nbsp; You can even specify which options you want to see and add the VALUE parameter to display the value as well as how/where the value was set.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>For example:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE>proc options option=fmterr value; run;</PRE> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:23:53 GMT LynnP_sas 2024-12-31T19:23:53Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Results-differ-when-running-a-program-in-Enterprise-Guide-versus/m-p/954830#M45652 <P>Submitting a program to run in SAS® should return the same results whether it runs as a background job, runs interactively, or is submitted using&nbsp;SAS® Enterprise Guide® (or SAS® Studio).&nbsp; You might experience a situation where this does not appear to be the case and wonder what is happening.&nbsp; Remember that in each scenario, you are running a SAS session that is configured by its option settings.&nbsp; While the standard configuration options for the SAS session are likely the same, the individual SAS clients might contain specific option settings.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>These option settings can be affected by pre-code submitted by the SAS client or options settings that are controlled by preferences within the client.&nbsp; Option settings that can affect results are FMTERR/NOFMTERR and VALIDVARNAME=.&nbsp; If you are seeing differences in programs that are submitted using different methods, you might want to issue a PROC OPTIONS statement to compare the settings between the two environments.&nbsp; You can even specify which options you want to see and add the VALUE parameter to display the value as well as how/where the value was set.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>For example:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE>proc options option=fmterr value; run;</PRE> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:23:53 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Results-differ-when-running-a-program-in-Enterprise-Guide-versus/m-p/954830#M45652 LynnP_sas 2024-12-31T19:23:53Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Results-differ-when-running-a-program-in-Enterprise-Guide-versus/m-p/954965#M45653 <P>An excellent reminder!</P> Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:24:38 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Results-differ-when-running-a-program-in-Enterprise-Guide-versus/m-p/954965#M45653 SASJedi 2025-01-02T21:24:38Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Results-differ-when-running-a-program-in-Enterprise-Guide-versus/m-p/954974#M45654 <P>This is a good argument for applying global system options at the "SASApp" server context level and not separately on batch and workspace servers.</P> Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:02:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Results-differ-when-running-a-program-in-Enterprise-Guide-versus/m-p/954974#M45654 SASKiwi 2025-01-02T22:02:19Z