HI Alex,

Thank you for providing this. I still have a question about how to kill the program. Before I sumit the sas program how could I know the sas program pid?

Regards

2009/4/12 Alex Murphy <goladin@gmail.com>

> Hi Terry, > > You can set up a counter that calculates the time. Should the time counter > exceed a certain number, initiate a X command that issue the kill command in > SAS? > > A suggested approach is to use &systime to start the counter and check > every 5 minutes whether the time has exceeded the starting time by a time > interval of Y. If so, use a do loop to initiate the X command to kill > process and quit SAS. > > Regards, > Murphy > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Terry He <he.terry@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I am running a program which takes a long time. Could I calculate how long >> the sas has run this program so far. We can know that from log file. >> >> The problem is that: If the sas program runs more than 12 hours, I need to >> kill this program. Therefore the problem is that I need to ask sas to >> calculate how long this program has been running and kill it automatically >> if it's over 12 hours. >> >> Could someone provide some sample code? >> >> Thanks a lot! >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Murphy Choy > > Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS V9 > Certified Basic Programmer for SAS V9 > DataShaping Certified SAS Professional >

-- Best Regards, Terry He