topic Re: SAS EG 4.2: Dropping objects from process flow in SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS EG 4.2: Dropping objects from process flow

IljaMett — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:23:10 GMT

Hi there,

I have a probably rather simple question concerning SAS EG 4.2

Some of my projects consist of quite a lot different SAS code objects, which all produce some output - mainly SAS data sets - which are used by subsequent routines.
However, most of the data sets which are generated during the job are not needed any more afterwards.

Is there a way to remove those unnecessary data sets from the process flow (other than deleting them manually after the job is finished), so that it does not look so crowded any more?

I would appreciate any help.

Best regards,
Ilja

Re: SAS EG 4.2: Dropping objects from process flow

twocanbazza — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:55:48 GMT

at the end of your user written code/programs ...

do a proc datasets delete. selecting all of the datasets that are nolonger used

Barry

Re: SAS EG 4.2: Dropping objects from process flow

IljaMett — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:51:34 GMT

Hi Barry,

thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately this is exactly what I cannot do, since the data sets are used by subsequent routines.
If I delete them at the end of the complete process flow, when they really are not needed any more, then the datasets are gone, but their icons are still displayed and just give an error message if you try to open them...

Best regards,
Ilja

Re: SAS EG 4.2: Dropping objects from process flow

ChrisHemedinger — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:18:48 GMT

Not that I should perpetuate undocumented features, but this might be of interest:

http://blogs.sas.com/sasdummy/index.php?/archives/248-Undocumented-features-theres-a-reason-they-are-not-documented.html

Chris

Re: SAS EG 4.2: Dropping objects from process flow

simmwa — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:15:58 GMT

I have been looking for a solution for this for years. Just realised today that the easiest way for me is to CTRL-A select everything in your process flow, then CTRL-select to deselect the programs/outputs you want to keep and hit delete. You can visually check from the supplied list that you are deleting the unwanted outputs.