Start a SAS Viya Job from outside

[DanielKaiser]

Hi,
I am looking for a way to execute a viya job from outside, to include it in existing processed with dependencies outside the sas environment. 

I am looking for something like a shellscript, that gets the Job-URI or the path as a command and then executes this. 
The script also has to return the correnct returncodes - 8 if the job ended with error, 4 if the job ended with warnings and 0 if the job ended successful.

Any ideas?

[gwootton]

I think you'd be able to do the things you need through the Viya REST APIs, so it would just be a matter of writing code to authenticate, submit a job, check its status periodically and then exit when the job completes with the exit codes you mentioned.

https://developer.sas.com/apis/rest/Compute/#job-execution

[DanielKaiser]

Hi,
yeah, we were able to execute a job via sas-admin job webapp execute. But the thing is the authentication, without writing down username or password in any files. 

[joeFurbee]

Hi @DanielKaiser,

You have multiple authentication options with SAS Viya. You can register a client (app) and generate an access token. With this token, you can securely make the API calls @gwootton mentioned. Refer to Authentication to SAS Viya: a couple of approaches for detailed steps. There are also multiple resources here within the Community dealing with Job Execution and authentication.