Is there a way to make SAS stop upon the first warning or error?

Question

SAS likes to continue processing well after warnings and errors, so I often need to scroll back through pages in the log to find an issue. Is there a better way? I\'d like

Answer 1

I've been using the %runquit macro recently. Works well for both batch jobs and interactive sessions (doesn't close your session, just stops running the code).

Source: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/research/tools/data_analysis/sas_to_stata/sas-macros/runquit.html

To use it you basically type %runquit; at the end of any data step or PROC instead of typing your regular run or quit statement.

Code:

%macro runquit;
  ; run; quit;
  %if &syserr. ne 0 %then %do;
     %abort cancel;
  %end;
%mend runquit;

Datastep usage:

data something; 
 * do some stuff;
%runquit;

PROC usage:

proc sql; 
  * do some stuff;
%runquit;

It's not quite as pretty when reading through code, but it does make debugging a lot easier.