PROC PM Statement
PROC PM options ;
All the options that are available in the
PROC CPM statement
can also be specified in the PROC PM statement. However, there are a few additional
options available with PROC PM, and some of the other PROC CPM options are
not needed as they are the default behavior in PROC PM.
The following options can be specified on the PROC PM statement.
- NODISPLAY
- invokes the procedure in a noninteractive mode. The schedule for the project
is still computed and the requested output data sets are created and saved.
However, the PM Window is not displayed. This option is useful for scheduling
large projects that do not need to be updated interactively. Note that invoking
PROC PM with the NODISPLAY option is similar to invoking PROC CPM; however,
since the format of the Schedule Output data set is different
for the two
procedures, you may see some differences in the order and content of the
observations. See the "Schedule Data Set" section for details.
- PROJECT=SAS-data-set
- identifies a SAS data set that can be used to save and restore preferences that
control the project view. For example, preferences such as the
font, column order, column widths, filters, and so forth, can be saved
from one invocation to another. See the "Project Data Set" section
for more details about this data set and the preferences that can be
saved in it.
- PROJECTNAME='string'
- PROJNAME='string'
- NAME='string'
- specifies a descriptive string identifying the name of the project.
This string is used to label the PM Window.
The following options are the default in PROC PM.
- ADDACT
- ADDALLACT
- EXPAND
- indicates that an observation is to be added to the Schedule output
data set (and the Resource Schedule output data set) for each
activity that appears as a value of the variables specified in the
SUCCESSOR or PROJECT
statements without appearing as a value of the
variable specified in the ACTIVITY statement.
This option is the default in PROC PM. In other words, the Schedule output data set
produced by PROC PM contains one observation for every activity that
appears as a value of the ACTIVITY, SUCCESSOR, or PROJECT variables (as
long as it has not been deleted in the current invocation of the
procedure). It also contains an observation for every activity that
is added to the project via the graphical user interface.
- AUTOUPDT
-
requests that the procedure should assume automatic completion (or start)
of activities that are predecessors to activities already
completed (or in progress). This option is the default in PROC PM.
- ESTIMATEPCTC
- ESTPCTC
- ESTPCTCOMP
- ESTPROG
-
indicates that a variable named PCT_COMP is to be added to the
Schedule output data set (and the Resource Schedule output data set)
that contains the percent completion time for each activity (for each
resource used by each activity) in the project.
This option is the default in PROC PM.
- SHOWFLOAT
- indicates that
activities that are completed or in progress should have nonzero float.
This option is the default in PROC PM.
- XFERVARS
- indicates that all relevant variables are to be copied
from the Activity data set to the Schedule data set.
This option is the default in PROC PM.
The procedure carries over to the output
data set all the relevant variables from the input data set. Thus, the
Schedule output data set contains all the project information that is
necessary to schedule it.
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