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PSNn
Obsidian | Level 7

No... This should work With Your Version too.  This functionality is VERY old.

You will get a "balnk" value when running interactively  and the full pathname of the log file when running in batch mode (where there is a log file).

... I think you replied to another aswer than mine....

TRY IT!

PSNn
Obsidian | Level 7

Yes, this is batch things...   

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

@PSNn wrote:

Yes, this is batch things...   


See my other post. Tested it in workspace server, display manager and batch. Same result everywhere.

I'm considering opening a track with SAS TS. Either the documentation is incomplete, or something else is fishy.

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Ran this:

%put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
proc printto log='$HOME/log1.txt' new;run;
%put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
%put &SYSPRINTTOLOG;
proc printto log='$HOME/log2.txt' new;run;
%put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
%put &SYSPRINTTOLOG;
proc printto;run;
%put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
%put &SYSPRINTTOLOG;
%put &=sysvlong;

And got this log in EG:

24         %put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
0
25         proc printto log='$HOME/log1.txt' new;run;

NOTE: PROZEDUR PRINTTO used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds
      

32         %put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
0
33         %put &SYSPRINTTOLOG;
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference SYSPRINTTOLOG not resolved.
&SYSPRINTTOLOG
34         %put &=sysvlong;
SYSVLONG=9.04.01M2P072314

log1.txt:

NOTE: PROZEDUR PRINTTO used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds
      

26         %put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
0
27         %put &SYSPRINTTOLOG;
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference SYSPRINTTOLOG not resolved.
&SYSPRINTTOLOG
28         proc printto log='$HOME/log2.txt' new;run;

log2.txt:

NOTE: PROZEDUR PRINTTO used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds
      

29         %put %symexist(SYSPRINTTOLOG);
0
30         %put &SYSPRINTTOLOG;
WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference SYSPRINTTOLOG not resolved.
&SYSPRINTTOLOG
31         proc printto;run;

SAS on AIX, so this might be specific to the OS.

 

Edit:

Ran the same in batch mode, identical result. Maybe there's an option that disables this?

PSNn
Obsidian | Level 7

Yes... An explanation from SAS Institute is needed..

This document:  http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings15/SAS1575-2015.pdf

is pretty old and says that this shouyld be available in both 9.3  and 9.4

Shmuel
Garnet | Level 18

I'm using SAS UE that is sas 9.4.

Ditza1
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it

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