Is it possible to run SAS Macro in Win XP?

[saqi2000]

Hi Their,

I write 90% programs are written using macro. When I try to run any program which uses macro does not produce any result. Is it because macro are not in the same directory or I can't run SAS Macros in window environment.

Thanks
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[MatthiasB]

Hi Saqi,

I don't have XP, but I have no general macro lookup problem identified so far. Where did you develop before so it worked?

Generally you have to point to those directories that contain non-std macros, or you must have executed the definitions before, e.g. in the source or via includes. To specify the the dir(s), execute this, e.g. in SAS's autoexec:

filename someMacs 'c:\my_sas\macros\';
options sasautos=(sasautos someMacs);

Cheers,
Matthias

 

[saqi2000]

Matthias,

I only started developing recently (2months). It was mix of UNIX and Windows 95. I could not see any output in UNIX easily, I hade to generate report which was lot of time writing code to output into a file. The reason I want to do all the development in Windows is Script Editor,log, output and datasets are only one click away. Call me the lazy git if you want I love UNIX but when I can't see the data then I had no choice but to goto windows.

Thanks for your tip and I will try that and let you know how did I get on.

thanks again

Saqi