Base SAS - Suppress this note: A PROC is currently executing. All subsequently submitted statements

[dashj]

 Hello,

I'm having an issue with the code below. No matter what I do I am always served with the Note from my title. SAS will not proceed until I click ok and clear the note.

A PROC is currently executing. All subsequently submitted statements will not begin executing until its completion.

Similar to this question:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/How-to-suppress-this-pop-up-note/td-p/303459

I have options xsync; because I plan on using this in a loop where I create a file, password protect it, destroy the XML dynamically. I don't want SAS to hit the delete XML x command before it's completed the conversion. (This may be my problem).

/****************************/
/*DUMMY SAS DATA FOR EXAMPLE*/
/****************************/

data FINAL_DATA;
		set sashelp.cars;
		Keep Make Model Type;
		IF Make = 'BMW';
run;

proc sort data=FINAL_DATA;
	by Type;
run;

/*************/
/*CREATE FILE*/
/*************/

%macro CreateFile;
		ods tagsets.excelxp file="C:\my_folder\XML_FILE.xml" style=listing;

		proc print data=FINAL_DATA noobs;
			by Type;
		run;

		ods tagsets.excelxp close;

%mend CreateFile; 


/**************************************/
/*CONVERT TO XLSX AND PASSWORD PROTECT*/
/**************************************/

%macro ProtectFile;
		%let FinalFile = C:\my_folder\OUTPUT.xlsx; 
		%let password=test;      
		%let XMLfile = C:\my_folder\XML_FILE.xml;                              
		%let VBscript  = C:\another_folder\convert.vbs; 
		                                                                                                                                        
		data _null_;                                                                                                                            
		   file "&vbscript" lrecl=200;                                                                                                            
		   put 'Dim xlApp, xlWkb, SourceFile, TargetFile';                                                                                         
		   put 'Set xlApp = CreateObject("excel.application")';                                                                                    
		   put 'SourceFile="' "&XMLfile" '"';                                                                                                      
		   put 'Set xlWkb = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(SourceFile)';                                                                                     
		   put 'TargetFile="' "&FinalFile" '"';                                                                                                    
		                                                                                                                                        
		   put 'xlApp.DisplayAlerts=false';                                                                                                        
		   put "xlWkb.SaveAs TargetFile, 51,""&password""";                                                                                          
		   put 'xlApp.DisplayAlerts=true';                                                                                                         
		   put 'xlWkb.close';                                                                                                                      
		run;                                                                                                                                    
		                                                                                                                                        
		options noxwait xsync;                                                                                                                
		                                                                                                                                        
		x "cscript ""&vbscript""";   

		x "del C:\my_folder\XML_FILE.xml";
%mend ProtectFile;

%CreateFile;

%ProtectFile;

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

1) Turn on options mprint before executing the code.

2) Paste the log with the generated code and messages into a codebox.

As it is there could be multiple places you message is originating and we can't tell where.

If you place all of the commands in a single command line they should execute sequentially without SAS intervention. Write all of the statements to CMD or BAT or appropriate and then have the X command execute that command file.