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Insufficient authorization to access prgramname.lst

Issue:

I had an issue with batch server. The code runs fine in SAS EG and SAS DI Studio but fails when I run with batchserver. Error seems to be

ERROR: Insufficient authorization to access /opt/sasinside/Lev1/SASApp/Sas_Program.lst.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

Solution:

When you execute on batch mode sas tries to save the output file (Sas_Program.lst) under /opt/sasinside/Lev1/SASApp where is no permission to write. We should add two system options to sasv9_usermods.cfg file to redirect this outputs to another directory. The options are following:

-altprint <directory> 
-print <directory>

Where directory is a directory where you have access to write. You must provide this directory. The directory can be some shared location like: /share/sas/lst.

If you decide to add this options these are the steps to follow:

1. Create or choose a driectory where your userid have write access. The userid is the one which you use to run the code.

2. There will be a outage since you have to restart Object Spawner. Approximate time of outage window will be 20 minutes. 

3. Add options to sasv9_usermods.cfg 

4. Restart Object Spawner

For more reference about the SAS optionsplease visit:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostunx/61879/HTML/default/viewer.htm#o-p3.htm
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/63285/HTML/default/viewer.htm#win-sysop-altprint.htm

Sample entry in sasv9_usermods.cfg


-altprint /data/share/LST
-print /data/share/LST

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