In reply to Chris Hemedinger.

Chris,

Yes, that would be interesting, to run where there is no EG involved. I will run on our UNIX/AIX box on Monday.

Chris, weird question: Is there any way in SAS to submit a process, much like DOSUBL, but *not* wait for the process to finish before proceeding on? I'm aware of DOSUBL, in which the process must finish, and I'm aware of CALL EXECUTE which can submit a process or processes that will execute serially after the current DATA step finishes, but is there a way to "fire and forget" a process, i.e. to not have the originating DATA step involved in the timings? I'm looking to launch completely independent processes. I've Googled about, but I don't see anything of this sort.

Thanks,

Jim