The way that I would approach it is to wrap my SAS program into a asynchronous web service, call that web service from my web page, let it process and then notify the listener on the web page that it is complete.

This sounds more complex than it actually is. To get SAS to operate like a web service is not a huge issue. There are lots of references on the web on web services.

Alan Churchill Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies" www.savian.net

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Hopkins Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:12 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: SAS IntrNet Processing, Submit the Job, Walk Away

Dear SAS-L,

We are using SAS IntrNet Processing with one of our web applications. Some of these web apps are taking a long time to process (30+ min.). We usually get CGI timeout errors.

I was wondering if anyone has tried to set up their SAS jobs so that the web app launches the SAS job, and then walks away from the processing? They do not need to have results come back to the web page. We would like to see the web app launch the SAS batch job, pop up a box that says, "OK, job is launched. Come back later to your results area for your output. Click "Exit" to close this box." And that is all.

If you have done any of this type of SAS IntrNet batch processing, how did you tune your SAS broker.exe to get these type of results?

Thank you for your replies.

--David Hopkins DHopkins@email.ERS.USDA.gov

www.ers.usda.gov

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