topic Re: SAS Management Console: How capture Environment Variables in SAS Programming

SAS Management Console: How capture Environment Variables

tborange — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:39:54 GMT

I'm trying to capture Environment Variables that are defined in a SMC Flow

Below is a screen shot of a SMC Flow that I manually set the Environment Variable "TEST" to 123.

This Flow calls a SAS Program via an SMC Deployed Job.

Question: Is it possible for the SAS program to capture \ parse this environment variable?

Re: SAS Management Console: How capture Environment Variables

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:17:16 GMT

The %SYSGET macro function can retrieve the value of system environment variables.

%let val = %sysget(TEST);

Re: SAS Management Console: How capture Environment Variables

tborange — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:24:25 GMT

Chris,

Thank you. That worked like a charm.

I was using an incorrect method (%sysfunc(getoption(TEST)))

Regards,

Troy

Re: SAS Management Console: How capture Environment Variables

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:32:49 GMT

You can also use the data step SYSGET Function.

Re: SAS Management Console: How capture Environment Variables

ballardw — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:57:55 GMT

@tborange wrote:

Chris,

Thank you. That worked like a charm.

I was using an incorrect method (%sysfunc(getoption(TEST)))

Regards,

Troy

The GETOPTION function only can get SAS system or graphics options such as are set with the OPTIONS or GOPTIONS statements. While the value of an environment variable might be able to set the value of an option you would have to query the for the Option that was set to see the value with Getoption.