In SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS-DI you have the possibility to analyze the code for a SAS-program.
The picture below shows the Analyze Program option in SAS Enterprise Guide.
Analyzing the code should result in a conversion of the SAS-code to a SAS Enterprise Guide flow or SAS-DI flow. But none of these code analyzers are very good. Depending on the complexity of the SAS-code you put into the analyzer, they will leave you with a more or less successful conversion. And more times than not they will fail at doing the job.
But SAS comes with a procedure PROC SCAPROC that does a really good job at analyzing and documenting SAS-code.
Below is an example.
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proc scaproc; record '<PATH>' attr expandmacros; run; proc scaproc; write; run; |
The links below gives you further descriptions of PROC SCAPROC and its options. There’s also a guide on how to do a graphical presentation of the result fra PROC SCAPROC.
Overview of the SCAPROC Procedure
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003199745.htm
Program for parsing the output from PROC SCAPROC to create a data set with inputs and outputs.
http://support.sas.com/kb/58/047.html
Innovative Performance Improvements Through Automated Flowcharts In SAS
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings16/11580-2016.pdf
Automatically create diagrams showing the structure and performance of your SAS code
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/1104-2017.pdf
That seems impressive. Thanks for your posts. I pin your blog in my shortcuts, and I’ll have to explore your SAS category, I bet…
To be honnest, I found this post while looking for solutions to automatically document Stored Processes which are saved in metadata server.
Would you have a good start point for me ?
Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately, I haven’t got a starting point for you. I hope others reading this post is able to help you.
Hi Thierry, I may have a starting point for you,
Dave