Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:26:40 -0400
Reply-To:     "Brucken, Nancy" <Nancy.Brucken@WL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Brucken, Nancy" <Nancy.Brucken@WL.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS Autocall Macro
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 jensenk@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any good examples (or know where some are) of
creating
> > Autocall Libraries?  I have the Macro book but there are not any
> examples and
> > it is a little terse for me.  What I would like to do is have a
macro
> that I
> > can call from any SAS program.  That way the info in the Macro only
has
> to be
> > updated in one place rather than each program that uses the
information.
>
 
We've grouped our autocall macros into various directories by macro
functionality, and use a SAS OPTIONS statement to make them available to
programs that need them.  The macros are just stored as text files.  The
operating system in this example is Unix, but can be modified
appropriately for any platform.  The statement we use is as follows:
 
options mautosource sasautos=('!sasroot/sasautos'
 
'/develop/rpt/onco/1003/maclib')
 
I think the first directory is required by SAS.  You can string many of
these together;  if macros with the same name are stored in two
different directories, SAS pulls in the first one it finds.  The other
requirement for handling them this way is that the macro names must
match their file names.  For example, a macro called MYMACRO must be
stored in a file called mymacro.sas.  Note that these are not compiled
macros.
 
Hope this helps,
      Nancy
 
Nancy Brucken
Parke-Davis, QIP
(734) 622-5767
Internet address:  Nancy.Brucken@wl.com