Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:33:09 -0600
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Subject: Re: Turn off warning messages in SAS log
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Hi Joe,
Thanks for the help. I just tried it, and no luck - still get warnings.
Thanks,
Matt
From: Joe Matise [mailto:snoopy369@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:25 PM
To: Pettis, Matthew (Legal)
Cc: SAS-L@listserv.uga.edu
Subject: Re: Turn off warning messages in SAS log
Not sure if this is helpful, but you might look at the DKRICOND/DKROCOND
options in Options->System->Files->SAS Files. Try setting one or the
other (likely O) to 'NOWARN' and see if it stops those errors.
-Joe
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Matthew Pettis
<matt.pettis@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
Hi Suzanne,
Thanks for the reply. I tried it, and still got warnings. I looked up
the documentation for the option, and it makes sense that it doesn't
work (see below). It only works with the listed actions below, which
does not include the action I care about --MODIFY.
Thanks,
Matt
NOWARN
suppresses the error processing that occurs when a SAS file that is
specified in a SAVE, CHANGE, EXCHANGE, REPAIR, DELETE, or COPY statement
or listed as the first SAS file in an AGE statement, is not in the
procedure input library. When an error occurs and the NOWARN option is
in effect, PROC DATASETS continues processing that RUN group. If NOWARN
is not in effect, PROC DATASETS stops processing that RUN group and
issues a warning for all operations except DELETE, for which it does not
stop processing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Suzanne McCoy [mailto:Suzanne.McCoy@catalinamarketing.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:40 AM
To: Pettis, Matthew (Legal); SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: RE: Turn off warning messages in SAS log
proc datasets has a nowarn option
-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Matthew Pettis
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 12:10 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Turn off warning messages in SAS log
Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to turn off warning messages to the
SAS log. In particular, I want to turn them off when I use a PROC
DATASETS with MODIFY to format and label some variables. The reason I
want to do this is that I create a bunch of datasets that all have 90%
of their columns in common, and I want to efficiently label and format
the columns. My solution to this is to make one PROC DATASETS statement
that has the information to do this for the union of all of the column
names from all possible datasets, wrap that PROC in a macro
parameterized by the dataset name, and then just feed each dataset to
the macro after it is created. This method works fine for me and makes
it easy to maintain a single point of labeling and formatting. The only
drawback is that each dataset that I run through the macro generates
warnings for the columns it tries to label and format but are missing
from the dataset.
Below is the output of a quick sample of what I mean -- What I want to
do is turn off warning messages just for the duration of the PROC
DATASETS operation. I've tried using options 'nonotes' and 'nosource',
but that doesn't suppress the warning. I could turn off the whole log
for the duration of the PROC DATASETS, but that seems extreme and I'd
like to still know if I get errors in the statement.
Does someone know how I can turn off warnings to format and label
statements just for a section of code?
Thanks,
Matt
===== SAS Log =====
253 data have;
254 x = 1;
255 run;
NOTE: Compression was disabled for data set WORK.HAVE because
compression overhead would increase the size of the data
set.
NOTE: The data set WORK.HAVE has 1 observations and 1 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
real time 0.00 seconds
cpu time 0.00 seconds
256
257 proc datasets nolist nodetails;
258 modify have;
WARNING: Variable Y not found in data set WORK.HAVE.
259 format
260 x best32.
261 y best32.
262 ;
263 label
WARNING: Variable Y not found in data set WORK.HAVE.
264 x = 'X var'
265 y = 'Y var'
266 ;
267 run;
NOTE: MODIFY was successful for WORK.HAVE.DATA.
268 quit;
NOTE: PROCEDURE DATASETS used (Total process time):
real time 0.01 seconds
cpu time 0.01 seconds
