https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/SAS-Enterprise-Guide-Questions/m-p/36673#M4568 My following commands are no longer working now. I am not sure what is causing the problem. I got recently installed hotfix for SAS Enterprise Guide and upgraded microsoft office. I did test with simple SAS statement as below. I did not get an error message and did not create directory either. There statements are working fine a few weeks ago. Any suggestions. Thanks.<BR /> <BR /> filename fileref PIPE ‘a DOS command’;<BR /> %SYSEXEC Statement<BR /> <BR /> for example, <BR /> Filename fileref PIPE ‘mkdir “c:\a dir”’;<BR /> Data _null_;<BR /> Infile fileref;<BR /> Input ;<BR /> Put _infile_;<BR /> Run; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:30:40 GMT scheme2121 2010-11-19T00:30:40Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/SAS-Enterprise-Guide-Questions/m-p/36673#M4568 My following commands are no longer working now. I am not sure what is causing the problem. I got recently installed hotfix for SAS Enterprise Guide and upgraded microsoft office. I did test with simple SAS statement as below. I did not get an error message and did not create directory either. There statements are working fine a few weeks ago. Any suggestions. Thanks.<BR /> <BR /> filename fileref PIPE ‘a DOS command’;<BR /> %SYSEXEC Statement<BR /> <BR /> for example, <BR /> Filename fileref PIPE ‘mkdir “c:\a dir”’;<BR /> Data _null_;<BR /> Infile fileref;<BR /> Input ;<BR /> Put _infile_;<BR /> Run; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:30:40 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/SAS-Enterprise-Guide-Questions/m-p/36673#M4568 scheme2121 2010-11-19T00:30:40Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/SAS-Enterprise-Guide-Questions/m-p/36674#M4569 General submitting shell commands x piping etc... are turned-off in EG. But if system option –ALLOWXCMD is turned on you can do that. Maybe when the hotfix was applied this options was deactivated.<BR /> <BR /> there is a work around using the MODULE function, below is a paper that I wrote that shows how to create directiory by accessing the Windows API directing.<BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2010/CC06.Putnam.pdf" target="_blank">http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2010/CC06.Putnam.pdf</A> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:51:45 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/SAS-Enterprise-Guide-Questions/m-p/36674#M4569 darrylovia 2010-11-23T18:51:45Z