ARCHIVED: Use SAS on Karst at IU
At Indiana University, SAS is available on the Karst research supercomputer. You can run SAS interactively, non-interactively, or as a background process.
On this page:
- Add SAS to your user environment
- Run SAS interactively
- Run SAS in non-interactive mode
- Run SAS as a background process
- Get help
Add SAS to your user environment
To add SAS to your user environment, load the SAS module:
module load sas
Run SAS interactively
To run SAS interactively, on the command line, enter:
sas -nodms
When SAS initializes, the SAS command prompt (1?
) will display. The number appearing with the question mark in the prompt will increase with each subsequent command line. Enter your command(s) and terminate each SAS command with ;
(semicolon). For example, to execute a statement, enter:
run;
To end the session, at the SAS prompt, enter:
endsas;
Run SAS in non-interactive mode
To run a SAS job non-interactively, on the command line, enter:
sas program.sas
Replace program.sas
with your SAS program's filename. When the job has been executed, two new files will exist in your default directory. The SAS log, program.log
, will contain the code that was run along with any notes, warnings, or errors that resulted during execution. The listing report,
program.lst
, will contain output from the program, if any. In both cases, program
represents the name of your SAS program file. If your program file contains errors, the
.lst
file may not be generated.
Run SAS as a background process
When you run a non-interactive job, your terminal is not free for other computing tasks until the job is completed. If you want to use your terminal for computing activities while the job runs in the background, include &
(ampersand) at the end of the command:
sas program.sas &
Again, replace program
with the name of your SAS program.
This will free your terminal for other computing tasks while the job runs in the background. When the job is completed, a message will be displayed on the screen, and the .log
and the
.lst
files will be stored in the default directory.
Get help
UITS Research Technologies provides a Getting Started with SAS under UNIX tutorial.
If you have questions about using statistical and mathematical software at Indiana University, contact the UITS Research Applications and Deep Learning team.
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Last modified on 2023-05-09 14:45:34.