topic SYSERR. not capturing the error in SAS Programming

SYSERR. not capturing the error

Jibyjacob7 — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:46:29 GMT

Hello Folks,

i have an error handling in a sas program that should email when there is an error in the previous data steps but its not addressing those errors.

at the moment it sends an email when the error code is more than 0 but its always success.

%IF &SYSERR. > 0 %THEN %DO;

%IF &SYSERR. = 0 %THEN %DO;

is there a way to handle error when they any steps fails in a sas program?

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:04:04 GMT

Maxim 1.

From the documentation of SYSERR

SYSERR automatic macro variable is reset at each step boundary. For the return code of a complete job, see SYSCC Automatic Macro Variable.

So if you have a successful step right before, SYSERR will return a zero. Use SYSCC to get the overall return code of your program.

Jibyjacob7 — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:44:48 GMT

Thanks a lot