Greg,

You'll propably have to use the autocall facility (see SAS Guide to Macro Processing). I use a stored/compiled macros. The macro sources are stored in a separate catalog (as .SOURCE members). The compiled version resides in a SASMACR catalog. SAS system options MSTORED and SASMSTORE=general have to be in effect. A created a macro which recompiles all macros that reside in my macro source catalog in one go :

%MACRO COMPMAC ;

/* Select only macro sources */ %LET wc = libname = "<macro-library>" AND memname = "<macro-catalog>" AND objtype = "SOURCE" ;

/* Retrieve macro names from SAS system table SASHELP.VCATALG */ %LET dsid = %SYSFUNC(OPEN(sashelp.vcatalg(WHERE = (&wc)),i)) ; %LET eod = %SYSFUNC(FETCH(&dsid)) ;

%LET num = %SYSFUNC(VARNUM(&dsid,OBJNAME)) ;

%DO %WHILE (&eod = 0) ;

/* Get name of macro source */ %LET objname = %SYSFUNC(GETVARC(&dsid,&num)) ;

%LET fname = <macro-library>.<macro-catalog>.&objname..source ;

FILENAME msrcref CATALOG "&fname" ;

%INCLUDE msrcref ; /* Include and execute macro sources */

%LET eod = %SYSFUNC(FETCH(&dsid)) ; /* Read next observation */

%END ;

%MEND ;

Retrieving information from the SASHELP.VCATALG as above rather slow and I'm sure there's some better way to recompile them.

Regards, Frederik ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: SAS Macros in work catalog Author: Gregory Weber <Gregory_T_Weber@SBPHRD.COM> at internet Date: 12/4/97 4:14 PM

To: SAS-L@AKH-WIEN.AC.AT@INET cc: From: Gregory T Weber @ SB_PHARM_RD Date: 04-Dec-97 09:14:51 PM Subject: SAS Macros in work catalog Categories:

Folks,

Does anyone know how to force SAS to recompile macros that are in the work catalog? As I am testing my macro code in display manager, it would be great not to have to manually delete them after each run. I am pretty sure there is a way to do this.

Greg Weber