topic Re: MACRO VARIABLE SYSERR in SAS Programming

MACRO VARIABLE SYSERR

Manikanta — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:30:01 GMT

Hi All ,

I just come across one issue while working on SYSERR. As per my knowledge SYSERR capture numeric value (greater then 0) when error occurs in program . However for below code we can see error called file work.run.data does not exist . But still SYSERR value is 0 in log .

Can any one please tell me how to get below error in SYSERR.

data one;

set two

run;

ERROR : File WORK.RUN.DATA does not exist .

%put &syserr;

Thanks in advance .

Re: MACRO VARIABLE SYSERR

Astounding — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:34:34 GMT

It's likely that the %PUT statement executed before the DATA step executed, because there is no RUN statement. Try it this way and see if you get a nonzero value:

data one;

set two

run;

%put &syserr;

Re: MACRO VARIABLE SYSERR

Reeza — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:35:31 GMT

You missed a semi-colon in your SET statement, so don't have a RUN statement so the procedure doesn't complete.

@Manikanta wrote:

Hi All ,

I just come across one issue while working on SYSERR. As per my knowledge SYSERR capture numeric value (greater then 0) when error occurs in program . However for below code we can see error called file work.run.data does not exist . But still SYSERR value is 0 in log .

Can any one please tell me how to get below error in SYSERR.

data one;

set two

run;

ERROR : File WORK.RUN.DATA does not exist .

%put &syserr;

Thanks in advance .