Tell SAS to stop run program once there is error

[Ronein]

Hello

I run a sas program and there is an error.

However,the program is still running long time and didnt stop.

What is the way to run a program and tell sas that in case of any error then stop the program immediately.( and show the error in Log window)

[Tom]

How are you running the program?

If you submitted the SAS program to run from the command line (what some call "background" execution) then just use the ERRORABEND option.

But if you are running SAS interactively using SAS Display Manager, or pseudo interactively using a front end tool like Enterprise Guide or SAS/Studio, then that might cause you trouble as it will actually end the SAS session.  So any log messages in the LOG window will be gone before you can read them. 

[SASKiwi]

If you are running this program interactively via SAS EG or similar then adding - OPTIONS SYNTAXCHECK; - to the start of your program may help. It will switch SAS into syntax check mode as soon as there is an error. This means SAS doesn't process any data while completing the rest of the program so that should speed things up a lot. This option is the default when running SAS in batch mode (run SAS from a command line as described by @Tom ) so you could just run your program this way without any code changes.