topic Need -sysparm more than 200 characters in SAS Programming

Need -sysparm more than 200 characters

ilya_1991 — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:51:27 GMT

Hello. I am running sas program on windows in batch. And I need to pass parameters to my .sas program.

I have tried sysparm option, but it has limit in 200 char.

Is there another way to solve my problem?

My sas version is 9.3

Re: Need -sysparm more than 200 characters

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:14:14 GMT

Store your parameters in a set of environment variables and retrieve them in the SAS program with %sysget.

Re: Need -sysparm more than 200 characters

ilya_1991 — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:39:40 GMT

I tried, but in the log I see the following message: wrong argument to function sysget

Re: Need -sysparm more than 200 characters

MMMIIIIKKKKEEEE — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 20:24:15 GMT

Ilya,

I like Kurt's response and bet that you do too.

If not, another way to do this is to store the parameters in a flat file. The first thing your program could do would be to FILENAME the flat file and then read the flat file in a DATA _NULL_ step via an INFILE statement. That step could eat the flat file and assign the parameters to macro variables that would be used further along in the program.

Could that work for you?

Re: Need -sysparm more than 200 characters

SASKiwi — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 20:31:00 GMT

Post your code. SYSGET works only in a DATA step or in a %SYSFUNC. %SYSGET is the macro version, for example:

data _null_;
  MyEnvVar = sysget('MyEnvVar');
run;

%let MyEnvVar = %sysget(MyEnvVar);

Re: Need -sysparm more than 200 characters

ilya_1991 — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 05:38:45 GMT

Thanks for reply.
The problem was in the way I parsed parameters.

MMMMIIIIKKKKEEEE, very interesting proposition, I'l try.

Re: Need -sysparm more than 200 characters

ilya_1991 — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 05:43:03 GMT

Do we have some limitations on variable length in -set option?