Found an interesting paper by John M. Wildenthal of JPMorgan Chase called An Effective CLEANWORK.SAS® for Windows , outlining a way of automatically deleting work files for any SAS processes that have been terminated abnormally.
Abstract of the paper is:
SAS provides an effective utility for deleting orphaned work directories on Unix boxes. But their offering for Windows
merely deletes everything older than a particular time (http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/008/008786.html).
This is unworkable for a server environment. This paper discusses a short program for Windows that parses the root
WORK directory and matches directory names to SAS v9 running processes. Directories that are not matched are
then deleted.
This is much improved in SAS9.2 – tis integrated with the windows disk cleanup manager. Have you been hearing much about SAS9.2 down under?
Thanks Paul, any links to doco or details greatly appreciated.
We have heard a little bit about SAS 9.2 down our way, through-out the last couple of years.
But details have been scant, although I believe this is by design until Phase 2 is closer to being released.
Having said that there is a lot of SAS 9;2 information being presented at the SAS Forum Australia and New Zealand 2008 (http://www.sasforum.com/anz/), which is on this week.
Didn’t manage to make it to the forum myself unfortunately.