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braam
Quartz | Level 8

I would like to break PROC DOWNLOAD when it is downloading a data from a server. The reason is that I realized that it takes a longer time than I expected, so I would like to re-run this code later when I don't work on SAS. But I didn't find a solution to break it. Does anybody have a tip for me? The only way I know is quitting SAS...

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SASKiwi
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Why don't you RSUBMIT your DOWNLOAD step to your SAS server using the WAIT = NO option (called asynchronous submit)? That way you can let your download work in the background while you can continue to work uninterrupted?

SASKiwi
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@braam - To retrieve the asynchronous SAS log use the RDISPLAY command or statement as explained here: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=connref&docsetTarget=p1ewmohmu2lcuvn19x98btw1xyjf.htm&docset...

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