how does the autoexec work in sas viya?

[elisehoo1]

Goodday @AllanBowe ,

 Wondering if anything i missed out here . appreciate if you can advise , Thanks

1. i had added few lines inside compute contexts from job execution compute context (first diagram)

2. trigger one of the scheduled job  (second diagram)

3. i checked the log but the %let statement that i put there was not executed. 

[AllanBowe]

Hi  @elisehoo1 - two things:

1) the options must be in "system option" format, not written as an options statement, eg with the initial dash.  See example here.

2) you don't typically see the log from the autoexec in the resulting session.  

On that last point - in testing I've also found (with a pooled session, in 3.5) that the autoexec is not "viya aware" - so you cannot set CASLIBs for instance, and not all macro variables are available.