SAS on Unix platform - SAS EG

[alepage]

Hello,

I am using SAS EG 7.11 .  I would like to know if the programs I am writing with SAS EG 7.11 are transferable (executable) on a Unix platform or does my programs need to go trough some transformation before.

Regards,

alepage

[ballardw]

Any OS dependent statements or options need to be addressed. Most common are library and filename assignments.

If you use any OS commands such as from the X command or statement, CALL SYSTEM, SYSTASK or  %sysexec then the syntax has to match the operating system executing the commands.

[Kurt_Bremser]

Code you write with EG to run on a UNIX-based workspace server can usually run with the sasbatch.sh of the same Application Server.

EG tasks, not so, as they often interact with the client desktop.

If, OTOH, you used EG up to now with the Local server, you have some work to do where your current code interacts with the Windows platform.

You might also run into issues caused by different codepages, or problems with UTF/non-UTF environments.

[alepage]

Hello Kurt,

Could you please provide me more information on sasbatch.sh ?  Do you know good pdf document where this situation is well explained?

Regards,

alepage

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

sasbatch.sh resides in the Lev1/SASApp/BatchServer subdirectory of your configuration tree and is used to run SAS programs in batch which are developed in the SASApp context. It is a wrapper for the SAS executable that automatically includes the SASApp environment.

I advise to do a google search for sasbatch.sh, and start out by running a few simple programs with sasbatch.sh to get a feel for it.

The Data Step Batch Server defined in SAS metadata also uses sasbatch.sh.