Regardless of what type of process you intend to call, it's not good practice to use an autoexec for this.
The autoexec is typical generic for multiple use cases/users etc.
Orcestrating SAS jobs/programs etc could be done in several ways, what's preferred is absed on your use case/situation:
SAS progam using %include
Windows bat/Unix shell script, calling SAS jobs using program file name as parameter (hint: sysin)
Scheduling software, ranges from simple start on a specific time (cron/Windows task) to more advanced. If you have licensed any SAS software which using "Intelligence Platform" in SAS 9.4, you can use the Scheduling Server plugin in SAS Management Console to administer/control this.
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