Date:         Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:41:53 -0500
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Saving the log from the Display Manager

Ed Heaton wrote:
> Good morning, all;
>
> I want to program a Macro button to save the log from an interactive
> SAS session as the name of the file in the Program Editor with LOG for
> the extension rather than SAS -- Somewhat like would be the case if I
> were running batch SAS.  Can anybody help?  (No, I haven't searched
> the archives!)
>

What's a Macro button ?  Is it a toolbar button that will run a macro that
will save the log likenamed as the file loaded into the program editor ?

As for program editor, is it the old style program editor, of which there
can be only of; or the enhanced editor (EE) of which there can be many
(making the likenaming difficult if >1 EE are open,  which EE controls the
name)

If your program does not make temporary filerefs, you can use this fact:

The highest valued #LN* fileref in SASHELP.VEXTFL (aka SQL DICTIONARY.FILES)
is the most recent file loaded into a SAS editor of the DMS session.

A toolbar button could do
GSUBMIT 'proc sql noprint;select xpath into :XPATH from dictionary.extfiles
where fileref like "#LN%" having
fileref=max(fileref);quit;';%LOGSAVE(ofSourceMVAR=XPATH)

LOGSAVE would have to be 'pure macro' and emit texts that can be interpreted
as commands.
You would have to write LOGSAVE.  It would extract dir and name parts of
&ofSourceMVAR and construct the filename you want to save to.  Finally
generate text that looks like

  LOG;FILE "<somepath>\<somefile>-<sometimestamp>.log";

Its possible that the LOGSAVE macro could text-gen the GSUBMIT.  Note: I
call it text-gen instead of code-gen because the context that the macro is
running in is the command processor (not the submit executor.)

--
Richard A. DeVenezia
http://www.devenezia.com/