In many SAS Grid installations LSF is the underlying scheduler. You don't have to run this from GSUB. It is available via Schedule Manager in SAS Management Console. Personally I don't get it why so many SAS users resort to command line stuff when there is a perfectly good point and click interface available.
Also there is no reason why your batch and online SAS environments should be different. Ours aren't and that means absolutely no code changes are required whatever environment we run our SAS code in.
I don't understand why you don't want to use your metadata server in Production. The whole point of leveraging metadata use is to keep your SAS environments consistent, and minimizing the use of coded LIBNAMES - it is much more productive and less prone to error this way.
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