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job scheduling in Unix SAS

4john — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:26:33 GMT

I am working in a unix sas environment.I do batch submissions.But any ideas regarding time scheduling a batch submission would be great.

os : solaris5
shell : korn shell
sas : v9

Thanks

Re: job scheduling in Unix SAS

deleted_user — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:43:58 GMT

you can use cron scheduler

Re: job scheduling in Unix SAS

LinusH — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:12:16 GMT

If you are at fairly large site, chance is quite high that there exists a 3rd party scheduling tool.
Or, if you by any chance are licensing DI Server, you could maybe use Platform Job Scheduler.
/Linus

Re: job scheduling in Unix SAS

Hima — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:52:28 GMT

Crontab can be used to schedule jobs in Unix via Unix SAS. To access crontab login to Unix and type crontab -e (Edit mode). This is a VI Editor. Press Esc Key and I for insert. Press Esc Key and x to delete.

Syntax for crontab is

* * * * * command to be executed

┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬

│ │ │ │ │

│ │ │ │ └───── day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 )

│ │ │ └────────── month (1 - 12)

│ │ └─────────────── day of month (1 - 31)

│ └──────────────────── hour (0 - 23)

└───────────────────────── min (0 - 59)

Example

00 08 * * 0-6 /home/test.ksh > /home.test.log

This would run the report every day at 8 AM. Make sure you invoke the sas from shell script. You would need some scripting knowledge to do this.

Re: job scheduling in Unix SAS

LinusH — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:57:41 GMT

If you are licensing any part of SAS Intelligence Platform (that, do you have a metadata server), there is a GUI interface to cron in the Scheduling Server plugin in the SAS Management Console.

/Linus