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Chris's SAS Macros by Chris Swenson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available by contacting Chris.

About CheckLog

SAS Global Forum 2012 Attendees

Please visit this page for more information about the following papers:
  • An Advanced, Multi-Featured Macro Program for Reviewing Logs
  • Standardized Macro Programs for Macro Variable Manipulation
The CheckLog macro reviews the current SAS log, external logs, or a directory of logs for issues, including lines with error, warning, invalid, or uninitialized messages. Further, additional messages have been identified that can be associated with issues, and some messages are ignored. CheckLog has several additional arguments for managing input, notifications, and how the macro operates.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or feedback regarding CheckLog.

Features

  • Check the current log*, an external log, or a directory of logs, including subdirectories (requires the DirList macro program).
  • Set the extension that is used in directory mode.
  • Add keywords to the search.
  • Exclude specific phrases, stored in a permanent data set.
  • Notify users by pop-up message, sound, or email.
  • Include additional detail in notifications.
  • Recreate the log in the current interactive SAS session by overwriting the current log with the imported log.
  • Abort the current SAS session when issues are found.
  • Execute the macro from a keyboard shortcut or via a Windows icon or context menu (see Scripts page).
  • Support for UNIX, z/OS, OpenVMS, and Windows.

See the Arguments page for more details.

* In Enterprise Guide, CheckLog cannot export the current log. See the Enterprise Guide page for more details.

Documenation

Enterprise Guide

SAS Enterprise Guide Users: Please visit the Enterprise Guide page for more documentation about using CheckLog.

Subscriptions

Subscribe to updates to the CheckLog macro.

Downloads

Note: CheckLog can be run on SAS 9.1.3 or newer. For scripts, review the Scripts page for full instructions.

Use Now

The following code will allow users to run the CheckLog macro immediately in the current SAS session.

/* Download and Compile CheckLog */
filename code url "http://goo.gl/H2zu9";
%include code / nosource;
filename code clear;

Recent Updates

  • Update to CheckLog: Outside Axis Range A new version of the CheckLog macro is available for download.In this version, several minor edits were completed including the addition of data set labels, adding documentation, and moving some local variable declarations. Additionally, the deletion of the Log_summary data set was removed.More importantly, I was informed that the statement, "outside the axis range", is indeed an issue, indicating that data was not graphed due to limitations in the graph's axis, typically leading to a misleading graph. Thanks to user Quentin for identifying and demonstrating this issue. I have added his example to the Examples page.http://sas.cswenson.com/downloads/macros/CheckLog.sasFor more documentation, go to http://sas.cswenson.com/checklog/, or if ...
    Posted May 22, 2012, 9:30 AM by Chris Swenson
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DateAuthorRevision
May 17, 2012 CAS Added check for a note regarding values outside of a graph axis range. 
April 5, 2012 CAS Minor edits including adding labels to the output data sets, adding some documentation, and moving some local variable declarations. Removed the deletion of the Log_summary data set. 
March 30, 2012 CAS Added an exclusion for the (w)arning received when opening multiple SAS sessions without locking the user profile. 
March 28, 2012 CAS Converted DM POSTMESSAGE statements to use the MessageBox API for Windows users. This should help use the CheckLog macro in Enterprise Guide. 
March 22, 2012 CAS Removed the COUNTW internal macro program, since it appears that SAS 9.1 did have the COUNTW function, so it is not necessary. 
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