Presentation by Yaroslav Haiovyi given at the 2018 PhUSE Conference in Frankfurt, Germany

1. SAS and UNIX: Rerunning your batches
in a smarter way
Frankfurt 2018
Yaroslav Haiovyi, Intego Group, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2. Page 2
Batch #n
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Manual
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“runbatch” file
X "sas ad_asl.sas"
X "sas qc_ad_asl.sas"
X "sas ad_aefga.sas"
X "sas qc_ad_aefga.sas"
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makefile
???
Three ways to run batches

3. Page 3
Excel file
SAS program
new SAS program
(addition to makefile)
Makefile
Step-by-step solution

4. <tab>command1
<tab>………
<tab>commandN
A target is the name of a file that is generated by a program.
A prerequisite is a file that is used as an input to create the target.
A command is an action that should be run.
target: prerequisite1 … prerequisiteN
t(target) > t(prerequisite1) ?
………………………..
t(target) > t(prerequisiteN) ?
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Structure of the makefile

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Libname_ Path_
sdtm_1 /project1/study1/SDTMFOLDER/
sdtm_2 /project2/study2/SDTMFOLDER/
sdtm ./SDTMFOLDER
adam ./ADAMFOLDER
outputs ./outputsfolder
Libname_ : contains the name of libraries that are used in SAS
program.
Path_ : contains the path to the folders where the files are
located. Need to be consistent with UNIX command line.
*.XLS input (Libraries)

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Libname_ Dataset_
Relations_
Data
Relations_
Prog
Command_1 Command_QC
sdtm DM _empty_ _empty_ _empty_ _empty_
sdtm AE _empty_ _empty_ _empty_ _empty_
sdtm DS _empty_ _empty_ _empty_ _empty_
adam ADSL sdtm.DM ad_adsl.sas sas ad_adsl.sas sas qc_ad_adsl.sas
adam ADAE
sdtm.AE
adam.ADSL
ad_adae.sas sas ad_adae.sas sas qc_ad_adae.sas
*.XLS input (Datasets)

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Libname_ Output_
Relations_
Data
Relations_
Prog
Command_1 Command_QC
outputs t_ae.out
adam.ASL
adam.ADAE
t_ae.sas sas t_ae.sas sas qc_t_ae.sas
outputs l_demog.out ADAM.adsl l_demog.sas sas l_demog.sas _empty_
*.XLS input (TLGs)

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RAWs_and_Other
SDTMs
ADaMs
Tables Listings Graphs
Datasets
TLGs
Order of groups
RAWs_and_Other
SDTMs
ADaMs
Tables Listings Graphs
Datasets
TLGs

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All Groups
Datasets
TLGs
Libname_ Dataset_
Relations_
Data
sdtm DM _empty_
sdtm AE _empty_
adam ADSL sdtm.DM
adam ADAE
sdtm.AE
adam.ADSL
Libname_ Dataset_
Relations_
Data
sdtm DM _empty_
sdtm AE _empty_
adam ADSL DELETED!
adam ADAE
DELETED!
adam.ADSL
Sorting order

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RAWs_and_Other SDTMs
ADaMsTables
Listings Graphs
System:
Line-by-line creation
RAWs_and_Other SDTMs
ADaMsTables
Listings Graphs
System:

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In chain order
Data
1
Data
2
Data
3
Data
1
Data
2
Data
1
Not in Chain order

12. Selective Rerun
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Rerun adam.ADSL = Rerun everything ???
SAS program
Makefile
Rename
FILE to
OLD_FILE
Create
FILE
Compare
FILE and
OLD_FILE
1. Keep FILE and delete OLD_FILE
OR
2. Delete FILE and rename OLD_FILE
COMMAND is Run
“SAS program”

13. Yaroslav Haiovyi
yaroslav.haiovyi@intego-group.com
Kharkiv, Ukraine
www.intego-group.com
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