Doing More with SAS/ASSIST Software

General Batch Processing Information Under OS/390

When you use the L command in the Result Manager window to batch submit an entry, the default JCL program in SASHELP.QASSIST.BATCHJOB.SOURCE is used for the batch submission. This program uses the prompt feature. That is, the user is asked to type the userid for batch processing. You can change this behavior to prompt the user for other JCL parameters (such as job class, time, and so on). See the next section for more information.

The site-dependent command for executing a batch job is specified in the User, Group, or Master profile's Batch command field. The default value is SUBMIT. If the profile's Generate libnames field is set to Yes, the user's SAS session is examined for allocated SAS libraries (librefs), and LIBNAME statements are inserted into the batch job. This may be useful if the JCL does not allocate all of the SAS data libraries that are necessary to execute the programs. To view or change these profile options, open the User Profile window or the Master/Group Profile window and set the Type to Batch. See Customizing SAS/ASSIST Software for details.

Note: If the batch job starts executing while the SAS data libraries are still allocated to your session or to another user's session in update mode, the batch job ends abnormally (abend) if the LIBNAME statements fail. To avoid this, you can delay the start of the batch job's execution until the other users have finished using the necessary SAS libraries. Or, make sure you de-allocate the libraries from interactive sessions. [cautionend]

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