topic Re: SAS Studio Master Flow As Job Scheduler in SAS Studio

SAS Studio Master Flow As Job Scheduler

Eddie305 — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:50:57 GMT

Hi all,

Just want to know if anyone has experience using SAS Studio to create a master flow and then run multiple sub-flows to make the master flow as the Job scheduler to run its sub-flows.

My question is how to set the job dependency of these sub-flows (seems that swimlanes is a good starting point) but want to know how to execute two sub-flows in parallel if the up-stream flow is completed.

Viya Job and Execute is not suitable for this implementation, and we do not have a plan to install a third-party scheduler like Airflow in our environment.

Regards,

Eddie

Re: SAS Studio Master Flow As Job Scheduler

LinusH — Thu, 08 May 2025 07:37:16 GMT

I don't have SAS Studio (Viya 4) at my fingertips, but I found a post that shows that in Viya 3.3 it was possible to set the execution mode to Parallel for a flow. I hope they didn't take that option away....?

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2016/04/06/sas-studio-parallel-process-flows/

Otherwise your next best option is to not use the sub flow feature, but rather define your flows dependencies in SAS Job Flow Scheduler:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_063/caljobs/titlepage.htm