topic Re: How to identify if working in EG or SAS/Win? in SAS Programming

How to identify if working in EG or SAS/Win?

bentleyj1 — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:46:19 GMT

I have a need to write a program that runs manually on EG connected to a server and on SAS/Win submitting to a server and on Linux with the job submitted as batch with Cron. In the past I've used &sysscp to identify if we're running on SAS/Win or a server but how to identify EG?

EG creates automatic macro variables not created by the other environments (like _clientVersion) and I could use %SYMEXIST to see if one of them is in the global macro table, but is there an automatic variable like &sysscp that says 'EG'? I couldn't find one.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2012/10/09/special-macro-vars-in-eg/

Thanks in advance.

John

Re: How to identify if working in EG or SAS/Win?

ErikLund_Jensen — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 09:52:21 GMT

Hi Bentleyj1

I dont think such a varible exists, but it easy to create.

In a typical SAS server setup there are separate server contexts, and each has its own configurations files, so EG and BATCH would use different SAS config-files. The cfg-files are placed in locations like:

"/sas/prod/config/Lev1/EGApp/sasv9_usermods.cfg".

If you (or your SAS administrator) added a line like

-set=SAS_CONTEXT "EG"

to a sasv9_usermods.cfg file, it would be accsible via %sysget in all programs started in that context, so

%if %sysget(SAS_CONTEXT) = EG %then ...

Be aware that environment-variable names are case-sensitive in Linux.

Re: How to identify if working in EG or SAS/Win?

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:51:41 GMT

Hi:
EG isn't an operating system, so &sysscp won't work. The _CLIENT macro variables seem to me to be your best bet. I believe that there are 2:
GLOBAL _CLIENTAPP 'SAS Enterprise Guide'
GLOBAL _CLIENTAPPABBREV EG

Cynthia

Re: How to identify if working in EG or SAS/Win?

bentleyj1 — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:21:19 GMT

Thanks for your idea. One of the things I like about SAS is that there is usually more than one way to do something. Of course, sometimes that's a bad thing too. 🙂