SAS Load Set Execution Setups

When you define an Execution Setup for a SAS Load Set, be careful to give it a name and description that will enable a person submitting the Load Set for execution to understand which file should be loaded.

The file must contain data sets that correspond to the Table Descriptors defined for the Load Set, but the Table Descriptors are created as part of the Load Set definition, while the file should only be specified at runtime. Therefore, provide enough information in the Execution Setup Name and Description to make it clear which data sets this Load Set definition is intended to load.

In addition, do not enter a value for Dataset File Name or the Server OS Filename in the Execution Setup definition. The person submitting the Load Set for execution must enter a file name. The system uploads the file at the time that you specify it. If you specify it during Load Set or Execution Setup definition, the data in the file may be out of date by the time the user runs the Load Set.

Note:

It does not make sense to schedule a SAS Load Set for repeated execution because it would use the same BLOB ID each time, reloading the same data.

If you schedule a single run of a SAS Load Set for a later time, it loads the data that was current at the time you specified the file.