Don, You've already received one suggestion regarding SYSTASK which should work for you. An alternative, if you have SAS/CONNECT installed, is to use the MP CONNECT feature. Cheryl Doninger of SAS Institute has written Multiprocessing with Version 8 of the SAS System. You can read about it at:

http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts632.pdf

HTH,

Ken Moody First Health, Metrics Department Voice: 916-374-3924 EMail: KennethMoody@firsthealth.com

>>> "Don Tang" <tanghaidong@BAOSIGHT.COM> 01/02/03 08:56PM >>> Dear all,

Does anybody have the experience of executing another sas program in a separate process within a batch sas program? It seems that there would be some differences between windows and unix environment, I need both answers.

I'd like to explain it in more detail. Now I have a SAS application program, which is called by SAS application server. Once the application program has been invoked, I'd like the program to execute another SAS program, which should be executed in a separate process. Both SAS programs run in respective processes and will end up respectively. In my situation, the latter invoked SAS program will normally run in a longer time.

I tried to use X, dm, %execute, etc. But all failed in the end. Anybody could show me the rope?

Thanks very much in advance for any insights.

Regards,

-- Don Tang <tanghaidong@baosight.com>