Executing TSO command thru SAS batch job

[DuraiN]

I want to execute a TSO command from my SAS job. I executed the following,

//STEP01   EXEC SAS
//SYSIN    DD   *

DATA TEST;
TSO DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'

RUN;
/*

The job ended with RC 0 but I see the following (error?) in SASLOG,

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2          DATA TEST;
3           TSO DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'
4           RUN
4        !     ;

NOTE: The data set WORK.TEST has 1 observations and 0 variables.
NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.00 CPU seconds and 23258K.

Can someone please help me understand what is wrong with this code?

[Tom]

Your SAS code is missing a semi-colon to end the TSO statement.  Also I doubt that you need either the DATA or the RUN statement to execute the TSO statement.

But I don't know if you can actually run TSO commands from JCL batch.

[DuraiN]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your response! I was getting the following error (i.e. an exclamatory mark next to the semi-colon) earlier which is why I removed the semi-colon from the TSO statement,

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2           DATA _NULL_;
3           TSO DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'
3        !                              ;
4           RUN;

I saw the following detail in SAS 9.4 Companion for z/OS, Third edition so wanted to check this feature of executing TSO commands from SAS,

TSO Function: z/OS
Issues an operating environment command during a SAS session and returns the system return code.
Restriction:
A TSO command executes successfully only in a TSO SAS session. In a non-TSO session, the command is disabled and the return code is set to 0.
z/OS specifics:
All
SyntaxTSO(command)

Required Argument
command
can be a system command enclosed in quotation marks, an expression whose value is a system command, or the name of a character variable whose value is a system command. Under z/OS, "system command" includes TSO commands, CLISTs, and REXX execs.

[Tom]

It sounds like you cannot run TSO commands from batch jobs. But why not run the TSO() function instead of the TSO statement and see what return code you get?

DATA _NULL_;
  RC= TSO("DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'");
  PUT RC=;
RUN:

[DuraiN]

Hi Tom,

I ran the code you suggested, it ended with RC 0 and I dont see any errors from SASLOG (provided below) but the file is not deleted,

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2           DATA _NULL_;
3             RC=TSO("DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'");
4             PUT RC=;
5           RUN;

RC=0
NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.00 CPU seconds and 23366K

[Tom · Accepted solution]

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@DuraiN wrote:

Hi Tom,

I ran the code you suggested, it ended with RC 0 and I dont see any errors from SASLOG (provided below) but the file is not deleted,

1
2           DATA _NULL_;
3             RC=TSO("DEL 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR'");
4             PUT RC=;
5           RUN;

RC=0
NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.00 CPU seconds and 23366K

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That seems consistent with the documentation text you posted before.  You cannot run TSO commands from SAS launched via JCL, only from SAS launched via TSO command.  

[Tom]

Why not just use the FDELETE() function instead?

DATA TEST;
  RC1=FILENAME('XXX', 'RC.SAMPLE.SAS.UPGR');
  RC2=FDELETE('XXX');
  PUT RC1= RC2=;
RUN;

[DuraiN]

Thanks for your suggestion Tom! but the idea behind testing the SAS-TSO interface was to test the features in current version of SAS and then do the test again after we upgrade the version. But may be I cannot run TSO commands from SAS..

[SASKiwi]

To test TSO commands in SAS you need to launch SAS from a TSO command line using: TSO SAS (your launch script may have a different name). I'm assuming that TSO SAS is available to you though.

[DuraiN]

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Thanks for your response! Yes we have a TSO SAS session available...will run it thru it