One more thing -- SAS Support thought it might be related to a FILELOCKS=FAIL setting. But thatsetting was the same for us in SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2, so that was not a solution for us. We just decided to live with the workaround. -- Kathy J. ... View more

Whoops -- sorry for the typo -- "reqedit" should be program_&USER.log in the example I gave. (reqedit is the name of the program we use ) /* get unix username from person logged in */ LOGNAME=$USER /* execute sas program and write to the user log file */ sas /<filepath for program>/program.sas -log /<path where .log files should be written>/program_$USER.log ... View more

We ran into that exact same thing -- we are using the share server.  Are you? If so, this is what I remember: We run a program using the share server, which updates a dataset (that we view using FSView.) When we switched over, we got a "File is in use" error.  It would no longer allow us to "share" writing to the log file. What we did to work around this was create a log file for each $USER. So in the unix script that runs the program that updates the shared file, you might do something like this: /* get unix username from person logged in */ LOGNAME=$USER /* execute sas program and write to the user log file */ sas /<filepath for program>/program.sas -log /<path where .log files should be written>/reqedit_$USER.log Hope this helps. Kathy Jorgensen ... View more

Could SAS do something like this for just a "regular" (non-planned deployment) installation for UNIX? We have had much difficulty following the documentation and insturctions because they are all geared so much to installations for the BI applications & metadata server. We use SAS a lot in UNIX - But BASE SAS primarily, and a very limited amount on Windows.  No BI Apps, and whatever else was described, nor do we plan to any time in the near future. We would LOVE to see some CLEAR, easy to follow instructions for those who are just doing a BASE SAS installation for UNIX.  We had a lot of trouble with our 9.2 installation due to the very confusing instructions and documentation (Or lact of basic unix installation instructions), and do not want to go through that experience when we move to 9.3.  This would be SO HELPFUL !!  Thanks in advance. ... View more