topic Re: How to view the code of macro catalog? in ODS and Base Reporting

How to view the code of macro catalog?

Iramesh — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:31:45 GMT

Hi All,

Can any one help me out to view the code of macro catalog code.ie.,

%macro test;

proc print;

run;

%mend;

when submit the above code "test" will be created in work.sasmacr. Now i want to view the code of "Test".

Thanks in Advance

Re: How to view the code of macro catalog?

BrunoMueller — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:08:55 GMT

Hi Iramesh

What exactly do you want to achieve? If you write a macro you do have the source code for it.

For compiled stored macros, you can use the %COPY statement if the developer did not use the SECURE option on the %MACRO statement

Bruno

Re: How to view the code of macro catalog?

Iramesh — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:04:50 GMT

Hi Bruno,

Thank you very much....

Regards

Ramesh

Re: How to view the code of macro catalog?

SASKiwi — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:46:27 GMT

In SAS Display Manager you can use the SAS Explorer to list the members in a SAS catalog such as work.sasmacr and if you double click on a member in work.sasmacro it will show the the source code in a window.

If you use EG only this is not possible. In fact the SAS server list doesn't even show SAS catalogs. There is an add-in you can get to display the contents of SAS catalogs but not to show the compiled macro source code.