Enabling the Application for Your Users

Once the application is tested and ready for use in the production environment, you must provide a mechanism for users to invoke the application. Typically, you can either create a command file or a program item that contains the SAS command plus a reference to the custom configuration file.

The Windows operating environment has graphical interface features for launching application programs. In such an environment, you can create a program item for your application and make your application accessible to users via a desktop icon or folder.

For some environments, you might want your users to access the application by using a shell script or a batch file. For example, the following shell script starts an application in a UNIX environment:

APPS=/u/apps
export APPS
sas  -sasuser        /u/apps/sasuser
     -rsasuser
     -autoexec       /u/apps/autoexec.sas
     -printcmd nlp
     -xrm            'SAS.windowWidth:  80'
     -xrm            'SAS.windowHeight:  32'
     -xrm            'SAS.windowUnitType:  character'
     -xrm            'SAS.awsResizePolicy:  variable'
     -xrm            'SAS.sessionGravity:  CenterGravity'
     -initcmd        "af c=corprept.app.MAINMENU.FRAME"

You can give users “execute” permission to the script file, and they can simply enter the script's name at a shell prompt to launch the application.