Evaluates a SAS log file for cautionary messages
Details
This tool evaluates a specified log file and searches for key
"cautionary" messages. It will generate a report displaying lines
containing these messages. The "cautionary" text includes the non-case
sensitive occurrence of:
abnormally terminated
are only valid
associated will expire
both numeric
could not be
division by zero
does not exist
due to attention
error
execution terminated
extraneous information
fatal
hardcode
hard-code
has 0 obs
has been augmented
has been replaced
invalid
is already sorted
is empty
line generated by
lost card
merge statement
missing values
more than 200
more than one dataset with repeats
no convergence
no observ
no output dataset
not found
not in crit
not on the data
not processed
not that many
outside the axis range
past the end of the line
repeats
same physical library
sas stopped
stopped due to looping
truncated
unable to open
uninit
unknown
valid
w.d
w\.d
warn
was too small
will be lost
word does not start
Installation
Once it has been set up at the site, configure the Windows Explorer to execute
Log Evaluation. Note that the path to the SAS system may differ on your system.
- Start Windows Explorer if you have not done so already and select the menu View ->
Folder Options...
- Select the File Type tab and scroll down to SAS System Log as shown below:

- Select the SAS System Log item and click on the Edit button.
- From the Edit File Type Dialog box, click on the New... button.
- Enter the following values into the two entries:
Action: Log Evaluation
Application used...:
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