Before the move to the WRDS cloud, I was able to submit sequential programs like this:
nohup sas program1.sas; sas program2.sas; sas program3.sas &

Where each program would start as soon as the earlier one finished.

Is there a way to do the same thing now using the WRDS cloud and qsas?  I don’t want to run these programs in parallel - they need to run sequentially.

Thanks

hi,

Great question! I’ve forwarded it to the Google group and will post any replies here.

Best Regards,

Joost

According to the WRDS Cloud Manual (https://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/support/Accessing and Manipulating the Data/_009WRDS Cloud Manual.cfm) it seems like you should put your commands into a script, then run the script using the ‘qsub’ command.

nohup is no longer necessary with the qsub command, according to this web page (https://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/support/Accessing and Manipulating the Data/_011Transitioning to the WRDS Cloud.cfm)

Chris Green

I understand that the nohup option isn’t necessary any longer, nor is the & at the end.

I’ve read the manual, but still don’t understand what it means to put the commands into a script and run qsub.  Suppose I have 2 programs:
p1.sas
p2.sas

and I want p2.sas to run after p1.sas has finished. 

What do I do? 

I tried the following:
Create a text file called batch.sh

Edit that file to include only the following lines:
#!/bin/bash
#$ -cwd
sas p1.sas
sas p2.sas

I then submitted this with “qsub batch.sh”

p1.sas and p2.sas are programs that I’ve run before individually, and I know they work.  But this batch file doesn’t seem to be working - the expected datasets haven’t been created.  When I type in qstat to check the progress, the program seems to be still running, even though the underlying p1 and p2 sas programs would have been finished in a fraction of the time that it’s taken so far.

hi,

Can you reply straight on the Google group so I don’t have to be the middle man? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wrdssas/zuqMrmg40vg

Thanks,

Joost