topic Re: Change SASAUTOS option permanently in SAS Studio

Change SASAUTOS option permanently

Aidas — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:24:33 GMT

Hi,

I have a macro (%space), which I would like to make available for all my colleagues using SAS Studio.

The following code works for a single session:

options append=(sasautos=('D:\sasmacros'));

options MRECALL;

%space(d:\sasdata);

How can I modify the SASAUTOS option permanently, so that 'D:\sasmacros' is added by default for all sessions and all users?

Can it be changed through SAS Management Console?

Thanks in advance

Re: Change SASAUTOS option permanently

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:27:08 GMT

Your idea is not so bad, but using SMC is not what I would do, as adding a complex action on the command line can be tricky (and the command line is mostly what you can manipulate in SMC).

Find the configuration tree of your BI Server environment on your SAS server. Then, find the directory for your workspace server, under Windows this should be something like

D:\SASHome\Lev1\SASApp\WorkspaceServer

There, add your commands to the autexec_usermods.sas file; if you want this change to also work for other types of servers in the SASApp context (ie stored processes, batch server), make this change in the SASApp directory, in file appserver_autoexec_usermods.sas.

Re: Change SASAUTOS option permanently

AnandVyas — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:20:49 GMT

Hi @Aidas,

This can be achieved in different ways. Here is a link with list of such options. Even though the heading says "Making user-defined AUTOCALL macros available to stored processes" these options can be replicated for all the other logical servers.

http://support.sas.com/kb/32/231.html