SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

Using an Operating System Scheduling Server R How Operating System Scheduling Works on UNIX Systems 215
3 Execute the generated script flowname.bat. The file is located in the following
path:
outdir\XMLFlowDef-name\flow-name
Either double-click the filename in Windows Explorer, or execute it from a
command prompt.
3 Use the Windows Task Scheduler to manually schedule the script. To access the
Task Scheduler, select Scheduled Tasks on the Control Panel. On XP and newer
systems, you can also use the schtasks command line interface to surface many
functions of the Task Scheduler.
3 Use the at command to manually schedule the script. The capabilities of this
command are more limited than those of the Task Scheduler. See your operating
system documentation for details.
Canceling a Scheduled Flow on a Windows Operating System
Scheduling Server
If you need to cancel a flow that has been scheduled on Windows, you can do either of
the following:
3 Use the Windows Task Scheduler to cancel the job.
3 Use the /del option of the at command. You can use this method only if the job
was submitted with the at command.
After a scheduled flow has been canceled, you can remove the script that was created
for the flow.
Using Operating System Scheduling on UNIX Systems
Limitations of UNIX Operating System Scheduling Servers
On UNIX operating system scheduling servers, SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 3 supports
the scheduling of flows that have a single time event as a trigger. Flows can contain
multiple jobs, but the individual jobs cannot have dependencies. The jobs in a flow are
executed serially.
If you schedule a flow to run on a date and time that has already passed, Schedule
Manager creates a script. However, the script is not submitted for execution, and an
error message similar to the following is written to the log:
One or more flows were not successfully scheduled.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step
because of errors.
This behavior is consistent with UNIX operating system scheduling.
How Operating System Scheduling Works on UNIX Systems
When you schedule a flow using a UNIX operating system scheduling server,
Schedule Manager creates the following files:
3 a flow command script called flowname.sh
3 a log for the submitted script, called flowname.log