In an environment where validation and change control are important I create a macro, %_HotFix, and put the following statements in my AUTOEXEC.SAS to keep track of installed Hotfixes:

%PUT NOTE: HotFixes installed:; %PUT %_HotFix; %PUT;

Which would give in the SAS LOG, for example:

NOTE: HotFixes installed: 82BA36WN 82BA47WN 82BA53WN 82BA59WN 82BA62WN 82BA63WN 82BA73WN 82BA74WN 82BA78WN 82BX01WN 82OC01WN 82OC02WN 82PF01WN 82ST08WN 82ST09WN

Any suggestions or comments are very welcome.

Lex Jansen

======== MACRO _HotFix ====================

%macro _HotFix / des='List installed Hotfixes';

%local _HotFix filrf rc did memcount member i;

%* This macro only works on Windows and SAS version at least 8; %if (&sysscp NE WIN) or (%scan(&sysver,1,.) LT 8) %then %goto endmac;

%let _HotFix=; %let filrf=MYDIR; %let rc=%sysfunc(filename(filrf,%sysfunc(sysget(sasroot))\core\sasinst\hotfix)); %let did=%sysfunc(dopen(&filrf)); %if &did %then %do; %let memcount=%sysfunc(dnum(&did)); %do i=1 %to &memcount; %let member=%sysfunc(dread(&did, &i)); %if %index(%upcase(&member), .AUD) > 0 and %index(%upcase(&member), AUD.00) = 0 /* Double installed HotFix */ %then %let _HotFix=&_HotFix %upcase(%scan(&member,1,.)); %end; %let rc=%sysfunc(dclose(&did)); %end; &_HotFix

%endmac:

%mend _HotFix;

======== MACRO _HotFix ====================