Cynthia, i don't know if you are still working with SAS but i have the following problem: we using SAS/AF - SAS9.4 on AIX in batch (ODS TAGSETS.EXCELXP ). after selecting data we want to export it into an excel file. we are using the code: /* Load ole object */ hostcl=loadclass('sashelp.fsp.hauto'); /* Start excel application */ rc=hostcl._new(excelObj,0,'Excel.Application'); but after the hostclass is set the job stops while excecution the next command - start excel application, without a warning/error etc it used to work, but we changed servers, ms excel (version 2013) and sas9.1 into sas9.4 did we miss some settings in excel/sas? can you help us out? why is the excel file not written? this problem in only when we are using it within a batch job using automic 4. Nicolet ... View more