topic Re: Schedule SAS Studio flows in SAS Studio

Schedule SAS Studio flows

FabriceP — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:20:34 GMT

Hello

With SAS Studio you have the ability to create flow through Visual Programming perspective.

Is there a way to schedule the run of a flow?

I use SAS Studio 3.5 Enterprise.

Regards

Fabrice

Re: Schedule SAS Studio flows

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:38:25 GMT

If your SAS workspace server resides on a remote host, I'd rather save the flow to one SAS program file (.sas) and have that executed in batch mode on the server, using your organization's preferred scheduler.

Re: Schedule SAS Studio flows

FabriceP — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:48:43 GMT

Thanks!

How can you save your .CPF file (SAS Studio Flow) to SAS program?

Except going in each boxes of your flow and do copy/paste or do some include of all programs located in the flow in order to build a big SAS program.

Not sure that flows you can create with visual programming are ready to be batch or schedule easily, but maybe I missed something

Regards

Fabrice

Re: Schedule SAS Studio flows

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:10:50 GMT

I can't speak for SAS Studio, as I haven't yet used it, but Enterprise Guide provides a menu choice to export a whole process flow as SAS code.

So I suspect SAS Studio should have a similar option.

The reason why I suggested this is that to run a Studio project flow, you need the Studio engine to interpret it. With SAS code in a .sas file, you just need SAS Foundation. Aside from the fact that a .sas file is simple text and can be viewed/manipulated with any text editor.