Google is your friend. http://www.lexjansen.com/nesug/nesug05/pm/pm13.pdf   ... View more

Thank you for your answer "When you say "project", are referring to Enterprise Guide projects? " It is not non necessary a EG project, it can be a sas program generating a tables for activity A, but the activity A depend on the activity B ... Is this a current requirement or are trying to prepare for some future development? it is for prepare for some future development and anticipating the furure evolution.. I am very intersted by a tool can do that job easily Thank you ... View more

Only you or someone at your site known where SAS is installed. Then the seems that you are mixing a relative search path with .. but given the initial / that becomes an absolute one. Also, there is a space in front of 9.2 and lots of spaces after bin, should pobably be a / instead. ... View more

@ChrisHemedinger : Thank you. That's very kind from you. So, I do not have a sas/connect. I have only the sas EG task copy..any suggestions to make a fast copy are welcomed. ... View more

@Kurt_Bremser : Thank you ... View more

That's normal scheduling planning. Find how much resources each job requires and calculate how many parallel jobs you can have. You probably need to run sequential as well. If this a daily job you might want to look at a professional scheduler that automatically submits jobs when there are available resources. ... View more

I think you 9.3 for filename zip.    Unfortunately it appears you're stuck with external utilities. You need to talk to you DB administrator.  ... View more

@Kurt_Bremser Thank you that's very kind from you intersting, so Please : - can we use the use command zip for all file with .zip extension  : file.zip ?   If for some of files with extension .zip , we can not, so how can we identify, if the file was compressed by WinZip or not ? -  "A fully qualified path name is one that starts at the root directory" as you said I have used that for a small file, it works, but I get a strainge folder in Small_FilE If I use this code filename pipe "unzip /V1/V2/V3/W1/W2  SMALL_FILE -d  /V1/V2/R/L/Small_FILE";   I get this strainge directories : Small_FilE//V1/V2/R/L/Small_FILE         ... View more

@LineMoon wrote: @Astounding Thank you, but I am not going to zip. I want to identify the zip utility used in sas ( if it is gzip, zip, 7zip, .....) or could be used ?   No external utility is used. The LZW compression algorithm used in UNIX compress is public domain since 2003, and the algorithms of gzip are open source from the beginning. Therefore it is quite easy to incorporate those in software (as long as one follows the principles of the GPL if such code is used) ... View more

"Scope" in this case is a general programming term.  Look up programming scope for more information. ... View more

The UNIX command for comparing text files is diff. If files A and B are identical, diff A B will produce no output and return with exit code 0; differences will produce output and exit code 1, all other exit codes signal an error like file not found. ... View more

Hi @LineMoon, I think that you will have better answers if you describe your situation and your "angle" (reason for your interest in this solution). ... View more

SAS Macro language should not be considered in this comparison. The macro language generates text that is not specific to the data step. ... View more

Thank tou Tom ... View more