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SAS users around the word use many modules like SAS Studio, EG, EM, DI etc. 

 

Most of these applications show the status of executing the program or project or flow but none of them shows the progress bar with real-time information about code/project/program estimated execution time. It will be very helpful for all to implement that feature in SAS applications like EM, EG, DI and others.

 

 

4 Comments
paulkaefer
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

I like the idea, and am happy to vote it up. That said, this is going to be a very complex task. How can you predict how much time it will take if your job is driven by input files? Also execution time depends on your SAS server load, and factors like how fast the database(s) you are reading from are going that day.

ballardw
Super User

I bet I can write a 4 line program that the "progress" bar will fail on every time. An infinite loop having no end time is going to be very problematic about showing "progress".

Casey_SAS
SAS Employee
Status changed to: Not Planned

Thanks for the suggestion but at this time, we are not planning on implementing this due to the scope of the request and other features planned.

lc_isp
Obsidian | Level 7

I don't want to necro-post but the idea of having a(n extremely simple) tool, other than Task Status, to give a visual progress even to a partial steps was worthy, IMHO.

 

Barely said: I've a project which 90% of the time loops into a single program, after doing a lot of "quick" steps to prepare/evaluate some support tables. The previous steps takes very few, let's say 20-30 sec. but the last step can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the "main table" on which it loops.

If I had a "tool" which I can send a "min" and "max" variable (casually the loop index), it can show me a "progress indicator" in terms of 1..N (e.g. 1/3350 processed records) or even N%, as I know which the maximum is.

And ok, I can look at the furiously scrolling Log but... Smiley Wink

 

0|-----'-----'-----'-----'-----'-----'-----v-----'-----'-----|3350: 70% to go (2345 rec)