Basically when I do sorting or join table in sas, the sas will use resources / space from local disk C: to process the code, but since I only have 100GB left on local disk C:, It will result in error whenever SAS was out of resources.
My question is how to configure / change the setting in SAS to use resources from Local Disk E: instead, since I have larger space there.
I already looking through the forum, but found no similiar question.
Please Help.
Assuming you are talking about desktop SAS, or a server that you administer, you can control where the work and utility folders are stored in a few ways.
The best way is to use the -work and -utilloc options in your sasv9.cfg file. That file can be in a few places, but often the SAS Shortcut you open SAS with specifies it with the -CONFIG option. You can also set the option in that shortcut with -WORK or -UTILLOC command line options. The article How SAS Finds and Processes Configuration Files can help you decide the location of the sasv9.cfg you want to modify; if you are using a personal copy on your own laptop, you may change the one in the Program Files folder, but if not, or if you don 't have administrative rights, you have other places you can place a config file that will override that one.
A paper that discusses a few of these options is one by Peter Eberhardt and Mengting Wang.
One way is to set up a library named user for projects that will be time intensive and this way you get it to be dynamic as needed. When you have a library called user, that becomes the default workspace instead of work. But, you need to clean up that library manually, it won't delete data sets automatically when you're done with it.
libname user '/folders/myfolders/demo';
As #Tom indicates, you can also set an option to use a library that already exists if desired.
options user = myLib;
An advantage of this method over the config file method as it only does it for projects where it's needed, rather than your full system.
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I need to use PROC.SQL statements for my analysis. The problem is, SAS uses C disk in order to create temporary files when I use SQL statements. My datasets are very large and I do not have enough space for that. Could you please explain me how to allocate this temporary file in other place rather than C disk?
You want to change the WORK system option. You can do:
c:\sas\sas.exe -work d:\temp
to use the d:\temp directory.
You can also use the OPTIONS statement within the config file used when starting SAS (thanks Tom):
options work='d:\temp'
See also:
Indiana University answer for SAS on UNIX systems.
SAS 9.2 documentation on system options.
Create a 'user' library instead. When a USER library is in effect, all one level datasets are written to this directory and it's used as the default instead of WORK library.
libname user 'path to other location';
If you want to permanently change sas work location, you can set it in sasv9.cfg. (Default location: C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\nls\en\sasv9.cfg). Along with -WORK, you may also want to change the value for -UTILLOC option.
You can even spread a Load across Multiple Volumes of Different Disks. Please read Example 1 mentioned in this link - https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/69955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1qr5dmzagn9krn1lt1c276963za.htm
We have default SAS workspace of x TB. We also have alternate 10X TB workspace on same server at different folder location.
Can anyone please help me with syntax that can be used in SAS EG to point to the alternate workspace instead of default one?
The SAS work directory can be changed for individuals by creating a $HOME/sasv9.cfg file and placing one line in it:
-WORK {full path to the SAS work directory}
if you are running in unix, you can change the work directory in the execution. nohup sas -work /myworkdirectory mypgm.sas &
Are you referring to the SAS work library, which is the location where SAS lets you store temporary data sets?
If so, then it depends. Are you using EG to in a client/server setup? In that setup you will have to get your SAS Admin to make changes on the server or in the SAS Metadata to point the work library for all Workspace Servers that start to use the other location that has more available space.
Would you not define SAS libraries out of these workspaces?
i.e. libname mydata '/folders/myfolders/'
This will then assign each library to your active SAS session.
Use this as precode to any manipulation your doing.
If you have Management Console, or Using PROC METADATA you can create permanent libraries.
You mentioned workspace, so I assume you need to control the WORK library.
Use the SAS system option
options work=library-specification
In the SAS documentation it states: specifies the libref or physical name of the storage space where all data sets with one-level names are stored. This library must exist.
Make sure the the file space is "close" to where the processing is done or file transfer will be a bottleneck.
I want to write my own autoexec.sas file, but I don't want to lose any functionality that I might have had from the default autoexec.sas file(s).
When I do a SASHome directory search, I find many files with this name. Do all of these files execute by default after the SAS system initializes? Or just one of the files?
Where do I save my own autoexec.sas file so that the other files still execute, along with my own?
Just starting here. Thank you very much.
You really shouldn't edit the usermods file. When you upgrade versions you'll lose all of your changes. There's actually a specific autoexec file designed just for this purpose -- autoexec_usermods.sas
That's where you'll want to keep your site specific modifications -- this way when you upgrade versions your transition will be relatively seamless.
I think you will want to edit these 3 usermods files:
opt-biserver-Lev1-SASMeta
opt-biserver-Lev1-SASMeta-MetadataServer
opt-biserver-Lev1-SASMeta-WorkspaceServer
The following links from SAS documentation should help answer your question on impact, storage and order of execution of autoexec file :
Customizing Your SAS Session by Using Configuration and Autoexec Files
Files Used by SAS -> SAS Autoexec File
Hi I don't have much space on my C drive so I'm looking to move my work library for SAS EG 5.1 over to a folder on my D drive. How could I do this?
Thanks!
Presuming you are using EG to work locally, you can change it in your sasv9.cfg file:
This is usually found in the SASFoundation/nls/en (or equivalent language) directory.
Another option (which avoids changing the config file) is to change the value of the TEMP environment variable. Remember though that SAS is I/O heavy, and if the D drive is a remote network location you may suffer performance-wise..
An option if you're unable to modify the Config file, is to define a USER libname:
libname user "d:\saslib\";
or similar. That will become your default one-level libname (ie, if you say data have; that will now be stored in user.have, not work.have). It doesn't override it if you have specified work explicitly, and it doesn't automatically clean up after itself, so be aware of these issues.
I have following scenario:
The main software I wrote uses a database created by a simulator. This database is around 10 GB big at the moment, so I want to keep only one copy of that data per system.
Assuming I have following projects:
Main Software using the data, located at /SimData
DLL using the data for debugging, searching for data at /SimData
Debugging tool to parse the image database, searching for the data at /SimData
Since I do not want to have all those programs have their own copy of SimData (not only to decrease place used, but also to ensure that all Simulation data used is always up to date for all programs).
I created for the DLL and Debugging Utility a link named SimData to MainSoftware/SimData, but when opening a file with "SimData\MyFile.data" it cannot find it, only the MainSoftware with the ACTUAL SimData folder can find it.
How can I use the MainSoftware/SimData folder without setting absolute paths?
This is on Windows 7 x64
I agree with Peter about adding the DB location as a configurable parameter. A common place to store that is in the registry.
however, If you want to create links that will be recognized by your software, try hardlinks. . fsutil should do the trick as described here.
You need a way to configure the database location. You could use an INI or other configuration file, or a registry setting, or a command-line input, or an environment variable. Or You could write your program to search a directory hierarchy... for example, if the various modules are usually siblings of each other in your directory tree, you could search for SimData/MyFile.data, ../SimData/MyFile.data, ../../MainSoftware/SimData/Myfile.data, and use the first one found.
Which answer is the "right one" depends on your situation.