I have a dataset being written into many separate files in VIYA. For policy reasons I need the log, but unfortunately I get so many (effectively identical) notes for every written file that the log is terminated with a warning. In base SAS this is not an issue but we are required to use VIYA to meet federal regulations. If I use background submission, which is actually ideal because I need a log and html file associated with the run, attempting to open the log file seems to crash viya. So, I am wondering if it possible to suppress a specific note in the log. I know of the nonotes option and can't go this route. I am also aware of similar question to this on these forums, but the original question was not answered since it seemed that poster was interested in suppressing warnings, which was simply (and understandably) advised against.    Code and the repeated note are included below with some redactions, although I'm not sure whether they will be helpful.    Thanks!       ... View more

Hello!   I am working on some existing code, which I did not write. The goal, in one segment, is to convert a list of names (in a macro var) to a list of sequential ID variables, for sorting. E.g.: Proc format;  value $A_ORD "James" = 1 "Pushyami" = 2 ; run;   The problem is that although this works fine in base SAS, for some reason when I run it in ultraedit it gives me "Syntax error: expecting one of the following: a quoted string, a format name." So, if I had written the program, I would simply not do things this way (or even just reverse the two, using the macro to create the format), but it would be a big big pain to rewrite around this problem. On the other hand, if I simply add quotation marks around each numeral, then the sorting will be alphabetic, which is also not desired. I believe there is a way to ask for numeric sorting, but it would also be a (small) pain. I assume this latter option is what I'll have to do, unless I'm overlooking something.   The main thing I'm curious about is why this problem exists at all, which is somewhat baffling to me. Is anyone familiar with using SAS in UltraEdit and able to fill me in?   Thank you! ... View more