how NOT to create log at all?

[olgazabelinasas]

Hello everyone!

I use SAS Studio.
I start the process through the "Background Submittion" button.

And then a very large log is created, which I absolutely do not need 🙂
Tell me, is there a command that prohibits creating a log at all?

So I inserted this command at the beginning of the process and started it again 🙂

[olgazabelinasas]

Hello everyone!

I use SAS Studio.
I start the process through the "Background Submittion" button.

And then a very large log is created, which I absolutely do not need 🙂
Tell me, is there a command that prohibits creating a log at all?

So I inserted this command at the beginning of the process and started it again 🙂

[ed_sas_member · Accepted solution]

Hi @olgazabelinasas 

There are some interesting options such as NOSOURCE or NONOTES to suppress information from the log-> please find here a more extensive description: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=basess&docsetTarget=p0rgzxi5r1euj0n14epck6v9l2hm.htm&docsetV... 

However, keep in mind that the log is a great effective problem-solving tool.

So I would suggest to use this kind option only in "production", once the program you've developed has already been debugged.

Best,

[olgazabelinasas]

thank you ))) i will try

[Jagadishkatam]

There is no way we can avoid creating the log, its a default

[olgazabelinasas]

thank you

[Kurt_Bremser]

Use

options nosource nonotes;

to reduce the log to only WARNINGs and ERRORs. But keep in mind that this complicates debugging.

[olgazabelinasas]

thank you 🙂

[yabwon]

Hi, 

maybe this will help:

/* "turn-off" the log */
filename f DUMMY;
proc printto log=f;
run;

/* put wahatever you want here */
data test;
 x = 17;
 putlog x=;
run;
data 123;
run;
/* put wahatever you want here */

/* restore log */
proc printto;
run;

You will get: no info, no notes, no source, no warnings, and no errors at all.

All the best

Bart

[olgazabelinasas]

thank you!!!