is there a way for the log to refresh when using "batch submit" in SAS Studio

[newtolinux]

Hi, an end-user asked if it was possible for the log to refresh (say you have a multi-step, many hours long SAS job) while the job was running. For example: a database load. Presently (I believe) the log is only present at the conclusion of the job.

[Kurt_Bremser]

Try -logparm "write=immediate" on the commandline or in the config of the server process.

With EG, I see log updates every time a step or run block finishes.

[SASKiwi]

If these are regular production batch jobs then you would be better off scheduling them via SAS Management Console. The SMC batch job logs are easy to monitor as you can specify a single directory where they are written and they get updated in near real time.  

[newtolinux]

Presumably this requires a separate license (such as LSF?) - unfortunately we do not have this.

[SASKiwi]

LSF is just one of the options. You could use OS scheduling with SMC at no extra cost.

[samdupont · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In SAS Studio 3.5 (the first release where SAS Studio introduced background submit) the log was locked until the conclusion of the background submit job on non-Windows platform. In SAS Studio 3.6 (which has just been released) this issue has been fixed so the log is readable during the run on all supported platforms.

HTH