Overriding a SAS DDname

Ramya A · Active User Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 99

Hi,

I wanted to override a dataset in the SAS step. I've a proc with STEP010 as the SAS program(STEP010 EXEC K9337SAS). Here there is a DDNAME DD1. In my test job I want to override this DDname with a test dataset name. But I'm not able to do this as we normally do for other steps. i.e, if I use

superk · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: Re: Overriding a SAS DDname

Changing the proc the way you did IS the only solution. As has been pointed out time and again in other posts, you can't provide an override for a nested proc from the job. The override can only be provided by the caller of the nested proc (K9337SAS) , in your case your proc.

MGIndaco · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject:

If I well understand, the override you are doing is pointed to the name of the step in your jcl!(STEP010 EXEC K9337SAS)
For a well override you must specify the stepname of your proc and not that in your jcl!
Assume that proc K9337SAS has within one step:

David P · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

Hi Ramya,

I believe in your case the following override in your PROC should work...

//STEP10.K9337SAS.DD1 DD DSN=<new data set name >,DISP=.......

Please check this as now on my system SAS is not installed but I remember doing this long back.

regards,
David.

superk · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: Overriding a SAS DDname

By the way, in my opinion, I think it's a horribly bad JCL coding standard to use step names like "//STEPxxx" in a PROC. I would imagine that this would make production support of the job(s) more difficult down the road, instead of using a standard like "//STEPxxx" for the jobs and "//PROCxxx" for the proc's.