Scheduling a job on SAS Studio

[annamerkou]

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to schedule a SAS program to run on SAS Studio on a VIYA 3.4 deployment?

It is necessary to schedule the job on SAS Studio instead of SAS Studio 5 because the program uses the X command, which is not supported on Studio 5. 

Thank you very much for your help!

[andreas_lds]

Talking to your local sas admins is the best way to solve the problem. Afaik you don't schedule anything using sas studio (this information could be outdated).

[annamerkou]

Thank you for your answer! While we're at it, is there any solution to the X command issue on Studio 5? Thanks again!

[SASKiwi]

@annamerkou  - If you are referring to X commands being disabled, ask your SAS administrator about enabling them. 

[annamerkou]

Hello @SASKiwi , thanks for your answer. I am referring to Computeserver (hence Studio 5) not being able to support X commands, as is what I've read in the official documentation. So I am wondering if that is still the case, or maybe some development on the matter has been made? Unless there is a workaround of course! Thank you once again! 

[Tom]

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@annamerkou wrote:

Hello @SASKiwi , thanks for your answer. I am referring to Computeserver (hence Studio 5) not being able to support X commands, as is what I've read in the official documentation. So I am wondering if that is still the case, or maybe some development on the matter has been made? Unless there is a workaround of course! Thank you once again! 

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Whether your SAS session was started with the XCMD option on or off is determined by the application server you are using. Not the user interface (SAS/Studio,Enterprise Guide, etc.) you are using to connect to it.

So ask your administrators to show you how to connect SAS/Studio version 5 to an application server that has the XCMD enabled.

But note that you cannot schedule SAS/Studio.  (Unless you have a bot that could fool SAS/Studio into thinking it is a human interacting with it).  You schedule SAS code instead.

[SASKiwi]

@annamerkou  - This is not a SAS Studio restriction, it is a SAS Server setting that just needs changing.

[annamerkou]

Hello again, thank you for your replies @SASKiwi , @Tom !

The XCMD option is enabled on the application server, however when I try to run on StudioV a simple command such as the following:

data _null_;

x cd /data/;

run;

I get the error: ERROR: Shell escape is not valid in this SAS session. However, when I run the same command on Studio, it runs perfectly!

The XCMD is enabled by adding the line USERMODS="$JREOPTIONS -allowxcmd" to the opt/sas/viya/config/etc/spawner/default/spawner_usermods.sh fconfig file. Is there maybe another config file that should be updated? 

Thank you!

[andreas_lds]

Have you tried enabling xcmd via management console instead of modifying the config-file?

[annamerkou]

Well that is the only method I came across in the official documentation, and I am not sure there is a Management Console in our VIYA 3.4 installation.

[SASKiwi]

@annamerkou  - There is no SAS Management Console in Viya, only SAS 9.x has this.

SAS Studio 5 works with Viya servers so it looks like you are missing a config change on that.

SAS Studio 3 works with SAS 9.x servers so I'm assuming that is where you have successfully made the config change.