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: Email Headers and New Phrase A new version of the CheckLog macro is available for download.In this version, I made a minor correction to a SYSFUNC call with a blank value that could cause issues. I also added the capability to use a header on emails in UNIX-like environments, tested with 'mail' and 'sendmail' commands.Thanks to a user, I included a new phrase regarding conversion of numeric / character values during PROC TRANSPOSE.http://sas.cswenson.com/downloads/macros/CheckLog.sasFor more documentation, go to http://sas.cswenson.com/checklog/, or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
    Posted Sep 28, 2017, 2:29 PM by Chris S.
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DateAuthorRevision
September 28, 2017 CAS Added a new phrase regarding conversion based on user feedback. Thanks Benoit! 
May 12, 2016 CAS Added a process to add email headers when using commands for the EMAILSYS option in Unix-like environments. Tested with 'mail' and 'sendmail' commands. 
April 11, 2016 CAS Removed a blank argument causing issues with SYSFUNC. 
August 19, 2015 CAS Checked whether data set exists before printing. 
August 6, 2015 CAS Added a combined data set with all log issues during log review (directory). 
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