topic Re: How to call a SAS stored process from a jdbc sql statement? in SAS Procedures

How to call a SAS stored process from a jdbc sql statement?

hsoneji — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:51:24 GMT

Need a way to call SAS stored process from a SQL statement. Ex.

CALL Library.StoredProc(Param in, Param in) returning a result set or

CALL Library.StoredProc(Param in, Param in, Param out, Param out)

Re: How to call a SAS stored process from a jdbc sql statement?

error_prone — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 16:07:20 GMT

Not possible.

Re: How to call a SAS stored process from a jdbc sql statement?

LinusH — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:24:30 GMT

Actually I think it's possible but perhaps not straight forward. This link tells that you can refer output data to a Java API:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/stpug/62758/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n10xnc6v54swuon15omr98dv95rv.htm
But what is your application? What does the stored process do? Generally they output reports, not data.

Re: How to call a SAS stored process from a jdbc sql statement?

hsoneji — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 01:22:24 GMT

Here is my use case:

From Pega BPM 7.x I only have ability to talk SQL using SAS JDBC. There is a program in SAS that is needed for my business process.

1. Load data into a SAS dataset (Read documentation, so assumed this will work http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=jdbcref&docsetTarget=p1pbz82pw98h7rn14cn3o0dhfo78.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en)

This is done using standard INSERT/UPDATE SQL statements

2. Retrieve data from a SAS dataset (Tested, works as expected)

This is done using standard SELECT SQL statements

3. Once data is loaded in the SAS dataset, I need to tell SAS to invoke a program to compute. (I don't know how to do this without having the ability to issue a CALL statement from within JDBC/SQL).

Please provide some ideas on how to accomplish invoking of a SAS stored process from outside of SAS.