The SAS Supervisor by Don Henderson, Henderson Consulting Services
Wed, Jul 28
|Webinar
Don't miss this opportunity to see a truly classic presentation on the fundamentals of the SAS DATA step, presented by SAS expert and author, Don Henderson.
Time & Location
Jul 28, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Webinar
How SAS processes jobs is the responsibility of the SAS Supervisor and an understanding of its function is important. While the details of how it works have changed over time, some of the basics of the SAS Supervisor have been reasonably consistent over time.
This paper was first presented at SUGI (now known as SGF) in 1983 and was a standard talk at many conferences back in the Jurassic period of SAS. It discusses the functions of the SAS Supervisor during the execution of a SAS DATA Step program.
The functions of the SAS Supervisor can be categorized as follows:
Compiling SAS Source Code, and
Executing Resultant Machine Code
The actions of the Supervisor during both the compile and execution phases of a SAS job will be illustrated.