Can't deploy .sas programs #991

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1. allanbowe commented on Sep 16, 2021

   

   allanbowe

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   Hi Chuck - correct, we support three categories of "job" - regular jobs (/jobs), web services (/services) and tests (/tests), all of which are deployed as "jobs" in Viya. We haven't built a feature for deploying SAS programs. We're happy to accept this as a feature request though. Would need to think about how we fit that into the framework - perhaps by having a sasFiles array, and deploying under /sasfiles in the appLoc root.

   A short term workaround might be to deploy as Jobs, then write an additional job (using SAS code) to read the content and deploy as a ".sas" program.

   This macro will list the jobs in a folder: https://core.sasjs.io/mv__getfoldermembers_8sas.html

   This macro will grab the code from a job: https://core.sasjs.io/mv__getjobcode_8sas.html

   And this macro can be used to create a SAS file (will also create any parent folders if needed): https://core.sasjs.io/mv__createfile_8sas.html
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3. ccastillo232 commented on Sep 16, 2021

   

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   Understood, thanks Allan.
4. allanbowe commented on Sep 4, 2022

   

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   @ccastillo232 - we found a workaround for this (credit to @mblauw-sas) which would give you the functionality at the cost of a slightly longer deployment process.

   Basically, you create a jobs/admin/rebuild.sas program (as a Job) which converts every deployed job to a SAS Program in Drive. You can then call this job in the deployConfig.deployScripts array by pointing to sasjsbuild/jobs/admin/rebuild.sas. This will execute the code as "code" (rather than as a job) and so there will be no _program variable, so you must provide the appLoc. This can be a jobConfig.macroVars value.

   Example config as follows:

   {
     "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sasjs/utils/main/src/types/sasjsconfig-schema.json",
     "targets": [
       {
         "name": "demo",
         "serverUrl": "https://my.server",
         "serverType": "SASVIYA",
         "appLoc": "/My/Drive/Folder",
         "jobConfig": {
           "jobFolders": [
             "jobs/admin"
           ],
           "macroVars": {
             "tgtAppLoc": "/My/Drive/Folder"
           }
         },
         "deployConfig": {
           "deployScripts": [
             "sasjsbuild/jobs/admin/rebuild.sas"
           ]
         }
       }
     ]
   }
   

   To do the translation from Job to Studio Program you can make use of the following macros:

   • https://core.sasjs.io/mv__getjobcode_8sas.html
   • https://core.sasjs.io/mv__getfoldermembers_8sas.html
   • https://core.sasjs.io/mv__deletejes_8sas.html

   Creating the actual program is quite simple - just set up the fileref using the filesrvc engine, eg:

   filename outref filesrvc  folderPath="&tgtappLoc/jobs/load" filename="jobx.sas";

   Happy to jump on a call to assist with setup.
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