topic Read-only macro variables in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-only-macro-variables/m-p/40441#M8220 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Unfortunately not <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://communities.sas.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /></P><P></P><P>Eric Sun and I looked into a number of protection issues not only for the macro variables, but also for the macros themselves.&nbsp; We were able to come up with a few work arounds, but protecting the variables themselves is still not possible.&nbsp; See the paper at: </P><P><A href="http://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2011/ad/pharmasug-2011-ad17.pdf">http://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2011/ad/pharmasug-2011-ad17.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:30:42 GMT ArtC 2011-08-02T23:30:42Z Read-only macro variables https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-only-macro-variables/m-p/40440#M8219 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello!</P><P></P><P>Is it possible to create read only macro variables? </P><P></P><P>Right now some global macro variables are created in the appserver_autoexec_usermods.sas configuration files. Unfortunately those variables can me modified by all users, causing some trouble when it happens in a stored process ...</P><P></P><P>Any ideas?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:07:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-only-macro-variables/m-p/40440#M8219 andreas_lds 2011-08-02T15:07:09Z Read-only macro variables https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-only-macro-variables/m-p/40441#M8220 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Unfortunately not <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://communities.sas.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /></P><P></P><P>Eric Sun and I looked into a number of protection issues not only for the macro variables, but also for the macros themselves.&nbsp; We were able to come up with a few work arounds, but protecting the variables themselves is still not possible.&nbsp; See the paper at: </P><P><A href="http://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2011/ad/pharmasug-2011-ad17.pdf">http://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2011/ad/pharmasug-2011-ad17.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:30:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-only-macro-variables/m-p/40441#M8220 ArtC 2011-08-02T23:30:42Z