Complex Process Flow Running Step by Step in SAS EG

[beamer108]

My team has a process flow that is very large and when we run it, it has to be run step by step to include validation of the data after each step.  Since it is large and complex and sometimes the Steps take long to run. Admittedly there are times when you run a step, multitask to something else while it runs and its easy to loose track of what step you last ran, or have to pick it up the next day. Is there a way to create an indicator of some sort to show where you last left off in your run making it easier to track?

[SASKiwi]

If this is a regular process, then you would be way better off exporting the EG process flows to SAS programs then scheduling and running it as a SAS server-based batch job. Batch jobs write SAS logs as text files so all you need to do to track progress is to open the text file and see how far it has run. Talk to your SAS administrator about how to set this up. SAS Management Console provides an easy point-and-click interface for running batch jobs.   

[Kemal_Sozer]

It depends on how did you create a process flow. Sometimes design one process is not ideal. You can create separate process flows and include conditional processes in it. Exporting to code and run batch job is also a solution but if team can not handle this think about multiple process flow's input and output datasets could be run sequentially? Also process flow run starts at first icon on top and next below. So create good labeled tasks and process flow and follow submission status menu to outputs time and completion status.

Best.

Kemal.