Blogging about all things SAS » SAS Clean Work http://blog.saasinct.com :: Sharing with the world everything we discover about SAS. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:56:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cleaning work files on Windows http://blog.saasinct.com/2008/08/13/cleaning-work-files-on-windows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cleaning-work-files-on-windows http://blog.saasinct.com/2008/08/13/cleaning-work-files-on-windows/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:30:34 +0000 Shane Gibson http://blog.sasinct.com/2008/08/13/cleaning-work-files-on-windows/ Found an interesting paper by John M. Wildenthal of JPMorgan Chase called An Effective CLEANWORK.SAS® for Windows , outlining a way of automatically deleting work files for any SAS processes that have been terminated abnormally.

Abstract of the paper is:

SAS provides an effective utility for deleting orphaned work directories on Unix boxes. But their offering for Windows
merely deletes everything older than a particular time (http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/008/008786.html).

This is unworkable for a server environment. This paper discusses a short program for Windows that parses the root
WORK directory and matches directory names to SAS v9 running processes. Directories that are not matched are
then deleted.

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