topic Remove working folder from running job in SAS Studio

Remove working folder from running job

R_Chung — Wed, 24 May 2017 10:00:07 GMT

I found out that when I finish running or cancel the running job, there are some information stored in some working folders(stored in saswork - UNIX). Sometimes it will be automatically deleted but sometimes it will still stay there. Would there any options for us to do before running a job or telling sas di to delete the corresponding working folders?

Re: Remove working folder from running job

Shmuel — Wed, 24 May 2017 10:30:27 GMT

SASWORK exists as long as the SAS session exists.

The folder is removed by SAS, when SAS session ends normally, but stays on when job is canceled.

The only way I know in unix is to cancel the delete it manually, when job ends suddenly.

Re: Remove working folder from running job

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 24 May 2017 11:03:44 GMT

SAS provides a utility (SASFoundation/9.4/utilities/bin/cleanwork) that can (and should) be used regularly (think cron job) to remove leftover WORK directories from SAS sessions that did not terminate gracefully.