topic Re: how to programmatically retrieve the maintenance version (e.g. TS1M8) used to run my SAS code in SAS Programming

how to programmatically retrieve the maintenance version (e.g. TS1M8) used to run my SAS code

jbodart — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:40:34 GMT

Automatic macro-variables seem to provide either a too simple or a too complex version number:

AUTOMATIC SYSVER 9.4
AUTOMATIC SYSVLONG 9.04.01M8P011823
AUTOMATIC SYSVLONG4 9.04.01M8P01182023

Can we assume that the maintenance version (such as TS1M8) can always be derived from &sysvlong, and if yes what would be a reliable way of doing it ?

Re: how to programmatically retrieve the maintenance version (e.g. TS1M8) used to run my SAS code

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:02:04 GMT

Retrieve it from SYSVLONG, SCAN after the second dot and before the first "P":

want = scan(scan("&sysvlong.",2,"."),1,"P");

Re: how to programmatically retrieve the maintenance version (e.g. TS1M8) used to run my SAS code

jbodart — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:36:04 GMT

yes that works with the current version but is that guaranteed to work with any version ?

Re: how to programmatically retrieve the maintenance version (e.g. TS1M8) used to run my SAS code

LinusH — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:13:00 GMT

For any 9.4 version, yes.

And if you migrate to Viya 4, this wil be the format:

V.04.00M0P083123

Re: how to programmatically retrieve the maintenance version (e.g. TS1M8) used to run my SAS code

jbodart — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:24:52 GMT

I ended up with:

%if &sysver=9.4 %then %do;
   %let software_version = SAS &sysver (TS%sysfunc(prxchange(s/^0*//, 1, %qscan(%qscan(&sysvlong,3,.),1,P))));
%end; %else %do;
   %let software_version = SAS &sysvlong;
%end;
%put &=software_version;

which results in:
SOFTWARE_VERSION=SAS 9.4 (TS1M8)