SAS/ACCESS 9.2 for Relational Databases: Reference, Fourth Edition

372 TENACITY= Data Set Option 4 Chapter 11TENACITY= Data Set OptionSpecifies how many hours MultiLoad continues to retry logging on to Teradata if the maximumnumber of Teradata utilities are already running.Default value: 4Valid in: DATA and PROC steps (when creating and appending to DBMS tables usingSAS/ACCESS software)DBMS support: TeradataSyntaxTENACITY=number-of-hoursSyntax Descriptionnumber-of-hoursthe number of hours to continue to retry logging on to Teradata.DetailsUse the TENACITY= data set option to indicate to MultiLoad how long to continueretrying a logon operation when the maximum number of utilities are already running.(The maximum number of Teradata utilities that can run concurrently varies from 5 to15, depending upon the database server setting.) The default value for TENACITY= isfour hours. The value specified for TENACITY must be greater than zero.Use TENACITY= with SLEEP=, which specifies the number of minutes thatMultiLoad waits before it retries logging on to Teradata. SLEEP= and TENACITY=function very much like the SLEEP and TENACITY run-time options of the nativeTeradata MultiLoad utility.This message is written to the SAS log if the time period that TENACITY= specifiesis exceeded.ERROR: MultiLoad failed unexpectedly with returncode 12Note: Check the MultiLoad log for more information about the cause of theMultiLoad failure. SAS does not receive any informational messages from Teradata ineither of these situations:3 when the currently run MultiLoad process waits because the maximum number ofutilities are already running3 if MultiLoad is terminated because the time limit that TENACITY= specifies hasbeen exceededThe native Teradata MultiLoad utility sends messages associated with SLEEP= andTENACITY= only to the MultiLoad log. So nothing is written to the SAS log. 4