https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6152#M2459 If you Read The Factual Material which you can get to through <A href="http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp</A>, and search on %SysParm and %SysGet you'll find the way to surface environment variables into your program.<BR /> <BR /> A single parameter at invocation can be added by including the syntax -set read documentation in your command line.<BR /> <BR /> Kind regards<BR /> <BR /> David Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:08:39 GMT deleted_user 2008-01-05T00:08:39Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6151#M2458 I am able to call the SAS program successfully from MS-DOS Command Prompt with following syntax.<BR /> <BR /> sas -sysin <SAS file="" with="" path=""><BR /> <BR /> Is there any way to pass parameters to the sas program from command prompt and use these parameters as macro variables in the sas program.</SAS> Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:02:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6151#M2458 deleted_user 2008-01-04T21:02:25Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6152#M2459 If you Read The Factual Material which you can get to through <A href="http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp</A>, and search on %SysParm and %SysGet you'll find the way to surface environment variables into your program.<BR /> <BR /> A single parameter at invocation can be added by including the syntax -set read documentation in your command line.<BR /> <BR /> Kind regards<BR /> <BR /> David Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:08:39 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6152#M2459 deleted_user 2008-01-05T00:08:39Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6153#M2460 Thanks David.<BR /> <BR /> I am trying it out, from the samples I have got it should work.<BR /> <BR /> Regards<BR /> Jignesh Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:04:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6153#M2460 deleted_user 2008-01-05T20:04:42Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6154#M2461 Thanks David it worked.......... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:41:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Pass-Parameters-to-SAS-Program-while-calling-it-from-MS-DOS/m-p/6154#M2461 deleted_user 2008-01-07T10:41:20Z