topic Scheduling programs to execute one after another in SAS Procedures

Scheduling programs to execute one after another

akberali67 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:31:12 GMT

Hi,

Is there an option in SAS to schedule programs to run one after another? Please help, have about 30 programs to run but hate checking back whether one is finished before executing another and donot wanna do it through VBA.

-Akber

Scheduling programs to execute one after another

LinusH — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:54:30 GMT

What does your SAS environment look like (licenses, servers...?).

The scheduling options available to you within SAS is described in the documentation.

If this does not work for you, you'll need to look at 3rd party resources, maybe there is a scheduler available at your site?

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/scheduleug/64110/HTML/default/viewer.htm#titlepage.htm

/Linus

Re: Scheduling programs to execute one after another

Linlin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:48:07 GMT

you can put all you programs in one sas file using %include. then just run the sas file.

%include "c:\temp\code1.sas";

%include "c:\temp\code2.sas";

Re: Scheduling programs to execute one after another

sknguru — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:34:11 GMT

SYSTASK command along with WAITFOR command can be used to run a list of SAS programs within a program.

For example, the following systask is used to run test.sas program.

systask command "sas.exe -sysin test.sas -nosplash -icon -log test.log" taskname=task1 status=stat1;

waitfor task1;

The WAITFOR command can be used to sequence the jobs if needed.

Hope this helps.

Selva.