" THIS IS A VERY OLD TIP CIRCA WIN 2000 ===================================== start>Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools\scheduled tasks put the following in run dialog box C:\Program Files\SAS\SAS 9.1\sas.exe" -nosplash -sysin c:\sas\pgm.sas -log nul: -print nul: put the following in start in box c:\sas You don't have to have a null log or null list. I send an email with the log and list when the program fails "   So this bit I have used before but whenever I use it this way it literally just opens SAS for me and then opens 'pgm.sas' to work on but does nothing else. Doesn't run the job as I would obviously want it to do.   As for the UNIX solution I unfortunately don't have access to run shell scripts in the system I'm working on.  ... View more