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heyydrien
heyydrien

Reputation: 981

How do you stop an input/output table from loading and return to the process flow in SAS EG?

SAS can take a very long time to load an output table after you click on it from the process flow, is there a way to cancel it? I've wasted hours waiting for tables to load, I am hoping there is a way to exit the "Input Data" or "Output Data" tabs and return to the process flow window.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1784

Answers (2)

Vishant
Vishant

Reputation: 266

If I am not wrong then you would "NOT" want the Input and Output datasets to open when the process is run. Then uncheck the highlighted options in SAS EG, Goto Tools--> Options --> Results --> Results General and uncheck the options shown in image below. enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 63434

I don't know of a way to directly stop the table from loading; in my brief tests, ctrl+break and esc don't stop it, which are the usual possibilities, and both do work in some places in EG. I will say that this is somewhat of a weakness in EG in general; it's not perfect at handling things in the background and allowing you to interrupt, though it's improved greatly over the years.

What you can do to avoid this being a problem, at least possibly, is to go to the Tools->Options->Data->Performance option screen, and limit the Maximum dimensions to display in the data grid value to something well under the default 1,000,000. Change it to 50,000 or something else that is a reasonable compromise between your needs and how long it takes to connect to datasets.

Alternately, you can prevent datasets from appearing on the process flow by altering the option in Tools->Options->Results->Results General Maximum number of output data sets to add to the project to zero. That doesn't prevent you from browsing datasets; you would just have to do it through the Servers tab on the lower left (in the default setup).

Upvotes: 2

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