Date:         Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:36:34 +0000
Reply-To:     toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cron job
Comments: To: mesecca@YAHOO.COM
In-Reply-To:  <200611221621.kAMBlFE3009010@malibu.cc.uga.edu>
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It is commonly called a driver program.  In short you create one program
which does nothing but    %Includes the other programs.  That way when you
set a global macro variable the rest of the programs have it to use.:

Here is an example of one of my Drivers:



%Let ReportDate   = Dec2004 ;


Filename Programs
"/xxx/yyy/Base" ;

Filename Macros
"/xxx/yyy/Macros" ;

LibName Formats
"/xxx/yyy/Formats" ;


Options FMTSearch = ( Formats.Formats Formats.DMISIDFMT Work Library )
        SASAutos  = ( Macros SASAutos )
        NoByLine NoNumber NoDate Source Source2 ;


%Include Programs( CreateFolders.sas
                             Universe.sas
                             UniverseProfile.sas
                             Rates.sas
                             Reports.sas
                             Graphs.sas ) ;

/*************************/
/** Clean Up Work Area        **/
/*************************/


%Symdel ReportDate ;

FileName Programs ;
FileName Macros   ;
LibName  Formats  ;



Toby Dunn

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From: mesecca L katram <mesecca@YAHOO.COM>
Reply-To: mesecca L katram <mesecca@YAHOO.COM>
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Cron job
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:21:52 -0500

Hello,
I am running a cron job to produce some sas reports ,
they are in the following order

sas sasparm.sas
sas sasprogram1.sas
sas sasprogram2.sas




sas sasprogram9.sas

I have 9 different reports each of them have to call sasparm.
%includue '&path/sasparm.sas'
though I defined them as global macro variables , some how the macro
varibles are not resolved in other programs, I think it is considering each
program as a session, how can I make my everything in this job files(all 9
programs)  as one session.
Thanks

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