On Windows computers, you can produce special symbols via holding down the Alt button and then typing a four-digit code. For example, the copyright symbol is Alt-0169. The cedilla (the letter c with a comma stuck on the bottom, used in some Eastern European languages and French), is Alt-0231. So, with the following code, those two special symbols get written to the SASLOG. data _null_;     file log;     copyright='©';     cedilla='ç';     put copyright cedilla; run; ... View more

Yes, I understand your code is an example. But now you have provided more code, which is also an example, and ignored my suggestions. As I said, the simplest way is to not re-use dataset names in your code. Then sashelp.class doesn't get replaced. Is that not a valid solution for you? As I said, you can check to see how many observations are in errorone, and if it is zero, do not perform the next step. Is that not a valid solution for you? ... View more

There are many solutions. One is simply using different programming practice, where you don't reuse the names of datasets in a program. Then data a never gets overwritten because the last data step is named data b; The other way that comes to mind is to check the number of observations in data one, and if you find out that data one has zero observations, you don't perform the next step. I'm pretty sure you would have to do this with macros. ... View more

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but the usual meanings of the terms batch and interactive are unrelated to what program code you have. Batch jobs are when you execute some SAS code from an operating system command. In a batch job, you wouldn't see the usual SAS windows. Interactive means that you have launched the SAS application, you have some SAS code in the program editor (or enhanced editor), and you submit the code via F3 or the submit icon. ... View more

Are the binomial variables the predictor variables (X), or the response variables (Y)? ... View more

No macros needed, if I understand you properly. You just need to use the %include command %include "\\server\share\extract.sas"; %include "\\server\share\load.sas"; Of course, you would use the exact path of these .sas files instead of \\server\share ... View more

Can you give me an example of two or three program calls? Are these SAS programs being called, or non-SAS programs? When you say calling "several different programs at once", do you really mean "calling several different programs in sequence via one SAS program"? ... View more

how do I create a macro that has all the program calls in it? This is very vague ... not clear at all why you want a Macro that has all program calls in it, when a program that doesn't have macros could also have all the program calls in them. Why do you need macros for this? What program calls are you referring to? Also before running the program each day I want the macro to check if the previous days data ran successfully and if the log dependancy for today is met before kicking of the jobs. Each day, if the program runs successfully, write the date and status (could be simply a 1 for success and 0 for fail) to a SAS data set. Next day, check to make sure the data set has a 1 on the previous day. ... View more