topic Re: Get Operating System into a variable in SAS Programming

Get Operating System into a variable

lorenzov70 — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:59:00 GMT

I need to get the 'Operating System' or the machine where my SAS server is running.

I can get this information from the PROC SETINIT; RUN; command (e.g. Operating System: LIN X64). My questions:

How can I save this information into a variable?
Are there other ways to get the same information (e.g. a specific function)?
More in general, is there a way to get the output of the PROC SETINIT; RUN; command (or the log generated by any other command) into a data set and then analyze it, for example, with a regular expression?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Bye. Lorenzo

Reeza — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 05:14:54 GMT

Most are automatic macro variables. See the documentation.

SASKiwi — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 05:24:17 GMT

Run: %put _AUTOMATIC_; to see all the macro variables that you could consider using.

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 05:39:47 GMT

Look at the SYSSCP and SYSSCPL automatic macro variables.

lorenzov70 — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 05:43:39 GMT

Hi to all who replied my question

Thank you very much for your very quick support.

The provided information solved my problem.

Have a nice day. Lorenzo