EXEC SAS,OUT=ICOUT

MIMI · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 20

What is the meaning of this statement? Thanks lots

Lkmi · New User Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 53 Location: Newyork

this link might help you.

www.its.niu.edu/its/CSupport/sas.shtml

Prandip · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:16 am

Execute the JCL Procedure "SAS", and pass the value of "ICOUT" to the parameter "OUT".

MIMI · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 20

The first, much appreciate LKmi and Prandip's answers.
I am new for JCL. I still have some question:
1) What is or Where is the value of "ICOUT" from? from SAS output or from JCL dd?
2) When I ran a job, I got the file is full or file is damage.
So, does this cause output datset space? I mean not enough space?
like: SPACE=(CYL,(10,1),RLSE).
So, how to decide the cyl size? I tried 1000, but seem too much.
3) For "Exec PGM=..., Parm=INBGENER". Where the parm to pass to?

Sorry for those beginner question, I am new. Thank for answer?

MIMI · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 20

Prandip · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:57 am

ICOUT is a literal that is being passed to the Proc to replace the current value of the variable OUT. Without knowing the contents of your SAS Proc, I have no way to determine what it is being used for. Hopefully the creator of the Proc was nice enough to document within the Proc all of the required and optional parameters and what they are used for.