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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:46:00 EST
- Reply-To: Brian Sheff <UBSHEFF@UNC.BITNET>
- Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Brian Sheff <UBSHEFF@UNC.BITNET>
- Subject: MVS Clist problem solved
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- SASlers,
-
- You may vaguely remember a problem posted on SAS-L about 3
- months ago dealing with user created clists. The problems been
- resolved and a usage note (V6-SYS.SYS 5380) written and this is
- just FYI. Here is my summary of the problem and the fix:
-
- In V 6.07 under MVS, a clist calling SAS with the LOG and PRINT
- operands to data sets may cause the log and list output to be routed
- to a single file, if the two data sets are identical except for the
- last level. For example this code would produce the problem:
- (wrong)
- SAS PRINT('''userid.OUTPUT''') LOG('''userid.OUTPUT.LOG''')
-
- As shown above, one data set name is completely contained in
- the other. Therefore, both the log and list output would be sent
- to 'userid.OUTPUT.LOG'.
-
- To circumvent this from happening:
- (right)
- SAS PRINT('''userid.OUTPUT.LIST''') LOG('''userid.OUTPUT.LOG''')
-
- Having PRINT point to 'userid.OUTPUT.LIST' and LOG point to
- 'userid.OUTPUT.LOG' would avoid the problem.
-
- NOTE: this problem is fixed in Version 6.08.
-
- Brian Sheff / OIT User Service
-