Kimberly LeBouton wrote: > > I'm downsizing an AF application from MVS to UNIX. I'm reprogramming the > application to run on both platforms, but have run into a glitch. > > In my respective autoexecs, I have created the following macro variable. > > MVS: %let indroot="&sysjobid"; > UNIX: %let indroot='$HOME/'; > > In my INIT section of my AF program, I created the following SCL variable. > > indroot=&indroot; > > Later in my MAIN section, I have a libname allocated in a SUBMIT BLOCK. > > ... SUBMIT; > libname graph '&indroot.graphv6.sasdata'; > ...ENDSUBMIT; > > Here's how the libname statement resolves. > > MVS: libname graph 'userid.graphv6.sasdata'; > UNIX: libname graph '$HOME/.graphv6.sasdata'; > > I would like my UNIX statement to not include the "." after the "/". > > Can I get this SCL variable to resolve the way a macro variable would, > without the period? The original developer wants the many, many libnames > to stay in the submit blocks. >

Kim,

It seems that you want the variable to resolve differently, depending on which machine you're on, which can't be done. To achieve the same end, however, a conditional assignment could be performed before the libname, something like:

dsn = 'graphv6.sasdata' ; if index("&indroot",'/') then lib = left("&indroot") || '.' || dsn ; else lib = left("&indroot") || dsn ;

submit; libname graph "&lib" ; endsubmit;

Obviously, there are many variations of this (a better way might be to have another variable determine the OS) but it should do what you want as it is.

HTH

Bruce