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OPTIONS MPRINT does not work on SAS OnDemand for Academics

jjyang20 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:35:20 GMT

Hi,

I’m using SAS OnDemand for Academics to teach SAS programming.

As I prepare to teach SAS Macros, I noticed that the MPRINT option does not seem to take effect. Even after including OPTIONS MPRINT; in my code, the macro-generated code is not appearing in the log window.

I'm trying to determine whether MPRINT is simply not supported in this environment, or if there's a way to enforce or activate it properly within SAS OnDemand.

Has anyone encountered this issue or found a workaround?

Thank you in advance!

James

Re: OPTIONS MPRINT does not work on SAS OnDemand for Academics

AhmedAl_Attar — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 03:10:43 GMT

@jjyang20

I just tried and worked!

129        OPTIONS
 130        FULLSTIMER /* Writes all available system performance statistics to the SAS log */
 131        SORTEQUALS /* Controls how PROC SORT orders observations with identical BY values in the output data set */
 132        OBS=MAX    /* Specifies when to stop processing observations or records */
 133        MSGLEVEL=I /* Controls the level of detail in messages that are written to the SAS log */
 134        SPOOL      /* Controls whether SAS writes SAS statements to a utility data set in the WORK data library */
 135        NOSYNTAXCHECK/* Does not enable syntax check mode for statements that are submitted within a */
 136        /* non-interactive or batch SAS session.       */
 137        COMAMID=TCP/* Identifies the communications access method for connecting a client and a server across */
 138        /* a network */
 139        AUTOSIGNON/* Automatically signs on to the server when the client issues a remote submit request */
 140        /* for server processing.                      */
 141        VALIDVARNAME=ANY  /* Allows the use of column names that contain embedded spaces and special characters */
 142        NOTES
 143        /*SOURCE
 144        SOURCE2*/
 145        MPRINT
 146        DEBUG=DBMS_SELECT/* shows only the select statements generated */
 147        sastrace=',,t,dsab' /* Display a summary of all generated SQL code, any threaded read/write operations, */
 148        /* and timing summary & details. */
 149        sastraceloc=saslog
 150        nostsuffix
 151        DLCREATEDIR /* Specifies to create a directory for the SAS library that is named in a LIBNAME statement */
 152        /* if the directory does not exist. */
 153        ;


69         %util_parseScaproc(p_inScaprocFileName=%str(&g_logsRoot/sca__analyze.txt)
 70         , p_outDotFilePath=%str(&g_outputRoot)
 71         , p_outDotFileName=analyze.dot
 72         , p_outDsName=work.analyze
 73         , p_includeAttrs_yn=Y, p_includeSteps_yn=Y, p_rankDir=LR)
 L_SCAPROCFILENAME=sca__analyze.txt L_SCAPROCFOLDERNAME=/home/anawarehousing/dotMySASProgram/logs/
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   DATA work.scadata;
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   INFILE "/home/anawarehousing/dotMySASProgram/logs/sca__analyze.txt" LRECL=1000 LENGTH=linelength 
 truncover END=eof;
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   LENGTH scaline $1000 linenum step 5;
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   INPUT @;
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   INPUT scaline $varying1000. linelength;
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   linenum+1;
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   if (_n_=1 OR index(scaline,'STEP SOURCE FOLLOWS')) then step+1 ;
 MPRINT(UTIL_PARSESCAPROC):   RUN;

Re: OPTIONS MPRINT does not work on SAS OnDemand for Academics

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:39:19 GMT

Please post a code example where this seems to happen; I use "seems" because I know for fact that MPRINT works in ODA.

Re: OPTIONS MPRINT does not work on SAS OnDemand for Academics

JackieJ_SAS — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:36:51 GMT

As others have mentioned, the MPRINT option does work on ODA. You can prove it to yourself by starting a fresh SAS Studio session (exit out of ODA, then come back in) and running a simple macro program. For example, you could run this program:

options mprint;

%macro mac1;
proc print data=sashelp.cars(obs=10);
run;
%mend;

%mac1;

For your existing code- perhaps you have unbalanced quotation marks or your macro function did not correctly complete when being defined? In both those cases, SAS gets into a situation where any additional code is run as if inside a text string or inside a macro definition. There is no universal way to get out of those situations. Instead, you should exit out of ODA, restart SAS Studio, then fix your code.

Re: OPTIONS MPRINT does not work on SAS OnDemand for Academics

Tom — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:33:58 GMT

No need to exit SAS/Studio. Just uses the Reset SAS Session (F9) option from "hamburger" icon.