In reply to jeremy ovaere.

Thank you, Jeremy, for your constructive feedback. While I agree that IT system administrators like taking care of their servers themselves, in many cases they would prefer not to deal with SAS applications logs, outputs, or other operational files. That is where good applications development practices step in. Wouldn't it be nice to clean up your own mess after yourself! I think both ways have their justification, place and right to co-exist.
And, by the way, ironically, you can use SAS to automate scripts writing, those same OS scripts utilized by IT people :)