SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

Controlling the Audit Trail

Overview

Once you activate an audit trail, you can suspend and resume logging, and terminate (delete) the audit trail by resubmitting a PROC DATASETS step with additional statements. You use the DATASETS procedure to suspend and then resume the audit trail. You also use this procedure to delete or terminate an audit trail.

General form, DATASETS procedure to suspend, resume, or terminate an audit trail: PROC DATASETS LIB=libref<NOLIST>; AUDIT SAS-data-set <SAS-password>; SUSPEND | RESUME | TERMINATE; QUIT; Here is an explanation of the syntax: libref is the name of the library where the table to be audited resides. NOLIST suppresses the directory listing. SAS-data-set is the name of the SAS data ...