Thank you for responding. I have actually read the discussion board you linked, and I am not sure it applies to my situation. I am not trying to run SAS through visual basic. I am using SAS to generate a visual basic script, and then execute that script (using X command). The visual basic script itself opens up an already-existing Excel file and inserts already-existing graph images into that Excel workbook. A couple of other things I forgot to mention: The URL is passed through SAS IntrNet. I don’t know if this is a contributing factor or not (I really doubt that it is). The requests are from external users who log into our site to submit the requests. So one of the most confusing problems here is why I (or someone else with administrator rights on the server) have to be logged in for these processes to successfully conclude. The jobs are being submitted to SAS from an account that does have administrative privileges so I have no idea why the submitted requests do not execute through to the end.
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