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is there a way for the log to refresh when using "batch submit" in SAS Studio

newtolinux — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:30:44 GMT

Hi, an end-user asked if it was possible for the log to refresh (say you have a multi-step, many hours long SAS job) while the job was running. For example: a database load. Presently (I believe) the log is only present at the conclusion of the job.

Re: is there a way for the log to refresh when using "batch submit" in SAS Studio

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:23:33 GMT

Try -logparm "write=immediate" on the commandline or in the config of the server process.

With EG, I see log updates every time a step or run block finishes.

Re: is there a way for the log to refresh when using "batch submit" in SAS Studio

SASKiwi — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 05:24:18 GMT

If these are regular production batch jobs then you would be better off scheduling them via SAS Management Console. The SMC batch job logs are easy to monitor as you can specify a single directory where they are written and they get updated in near real time.

Re: is there a way for the log to refresh when using "batch submit" in SAS Studio

newtolinux — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:21:19 GMT

Presumably this requires a separate license (such as LSF?) - unfortunately we do not have this.

Re: is there a way for the log to refresh when using "batch submit" in SAS Studio

samdupont — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:49:47 GMT

Hi,

In SAS Studio 3.5 (the first release where SAS Studio introduced background submit) the log was locked until the conclusion of the background submit job on non-Windows platform. In SAS Studio 3.6 (which has just been released) this issue has been fixed so the log is readable during the run on all supported platforms.

HTH

Re: is there a way for the log to refresh when using "batch submit" in SAS Studio

SASKiwi — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:53:10 GMT

LSF is just one of the options. You could use OS scheduling with SMC at no extra cost.