The SAS DATA Step Batch Server

If your environment includes a SAS scheduling component, such as Platform Process Manager, then the SAS Deployment Wizard will have defined a Logical SAS DATA Step Batch Server and a SAS DATA Step Batch Server as part of your SAS Application Server.
Server Manager plug-in DATA step batch server tree structure
The properties of the SAS DATA Step Batch Server are shown in the following display:
SAS DATA Step Batch Server dialog boxes
These properties are explained in the following list:
Associated Machine
specifies the machine on which the SAS DATA Step Batch Server was configured. This is also the machine on which the deployed job is presumed to reside. It is not necessarily the machine on which the scheduled job will actually execute. The job will execute on the machine where the scheduling server is running. Ensure that any commands that you store in the batch server are capable of running on the scheduling server.
SubType
specifies the operating system of the machine on which the job will execute.
Command Line
specifies the script that will start SAS in batch mode so that it can execute the job. This script must be able to execute on the scheduling server host.
Logs Directory
specifies the log directory to which SAS can write a log file. This field is required when defining a DATA step batch server. To specify the current directory, enter ./ or an equivalent specification for your host environment.
Rolling Log Options
specifies the format for the name of the log file and indicates when a new log file should be started.
The server is configured to start a new log file automatically when the value of any directive in the name changes. By default, the log file will roll over every second (%s). For information about the directives used in the log filename, see the documentation for the SAS system option LOG=.
Note: If you want to use the SAS 9.3 logging facility instead of the traditional logging feature (prior to SAS 9.2), enter a hyphen in this field, and append this option to the sas command: -logconfiglocscript-path/logconfig.xml, where script-path is the absolute path to the sasbatch script. For more information, see Enabling Server Logging in SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.