Since we had an update of our organisation Windows 10 build and a move from Enterprise Guide 7.13 to 7.15 users have noticed the message "Please wait while Windows configures Enterprise Guide" appearing for a few seconds every time they start the application. It does not happen immediately on startup but on the first action such as running code or accessing a library. It is more of an annoyance than a real problem but I was interested if anyone had an idea of why this would happen each time we use Enterprise Guide rather than just on initial install (which I think is when we used to see it). ... View more

Hi   I am using SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 to submit a SAS program called SASBatchSubmit.sas to run as a background process on a Unix server running SAS 9.4 using a %sysexec command as follows   %sysexec nohup sas ~/SASBatchSubmit.sas -print ~/SASBatchSubmit.lst -log ~/SASBatchSubmit.log &; This runs fine (the option is enabled for the server to allow system commands) and the output file (.lst) is created correctly with the output expected. However there is no sign of a log file despite it being included in the command. If the same thing is remote submitted from a SAS Display Manager application environment then it works fine and the log is created.     Does anyone know why there is no log ? For a few reasons we want to be able to kick this off from Enterprise Guide ... View more

SAS discussion board Anyone have any idea how PROC SQL orders returned data for variables which have not been explicitly ordered or if there is a way of controlling it - for example with a many to many merge. Is there a rule about the order in which variables which are not explicitly part of the merge will be ? It does not seem to necessarily be the order in which they were in the source data. We are using SAS 9.3   With proc sort there is a system option (SORTEQUALS) which forces the order of the non sorted variables to be as in the source data but is there a similar control with proc sql ?   Good practice will be to explicitly include the desired order in the proc sql but just wondering if there is a solution that does not require a change to code (other than perhaps an option). The problem has arisen as part of a move to SAS Enterprise Guide. Oddly exactly the same proc sql code returns observations in a different order (within by group) if submitted from a display manager interface compared to if submitted from Enterprise Guide. I can't reproduce with a simple dummy example.   ... View more