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Setting up an AUTOCALL in SAS On-Demand for Academics

derekmor54 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:25:15 GMT

Hi all,

Is there a way to set up an autocall library for macros? I've used:

OPTIONS MAUTOSOURCE SASAUTOS=('/home/me/rrdb/data'  '/home/me/rrdb/autocall' SASAUTOS);

It worked under University edition, but ODA doesn't seem to recognize the autocall directory.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Setting up an AUTOCALL in SAS On-Demand for Academics

Patrick — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 12:11:08 GMT

Do these directories actually exists and if yes does your user have at least read access? Can you run below code without error?

libname test '/home/me/rrdb/data';
data test.class;
  set sashelp.class;
run;
proc delete data=test.class;
run;quit;
libname test clear;

Re: Setting up an AUTOCALL in SAS On-Demand for Academics

Quentin — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 20:24:45 GMT

Are you able to %include a macro definition, e.g.:

%include /home/me/rrdb/autocall/mymacro.sas ;

Assuming you're on linux, are the names of your .sas files all lower case? (Linux SAS won't find autocall macros where the file name has upper case letters).

Did you try testing the code in a fresh session? The default SAS session has option NOMRECALL set, so if it looks for an autocall macro once and can't find it, it will never look again (even if you've updated the autocall path). You might want to set options MRECALL while debugging the autocall library.

In this blog posts, Ron Cody shows one way to set up the an autocall library for SODA: https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2022/01/27/sas-auto-call-facility/ .

Re: Setting up an AUTOCALL in SAS On-Demand for Academics

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 09:37:34 GMT

This works for me on SAS On Demand:

create a directory called sasautos in my Home directory
store this code there under the name test.sas (all lowercase!)
```
%macro test;
%put Test worked!;
%mend;
```

then run this program:

options mautosource sasautos=("~/sasautos" SASAUTOS);

%test

resulting in this log:

 68         
 69         options mautosource sasautos=("~/sasautos");
 70         
 71         %test
 Test worked!

The ~ shortcut will work on all current UNIX systems. It points to the same location as the $HOME environment variable.

Re: Setting up an AUTOCALL in SAS On-Demand for Academics

derekmor54 — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:40:35 GMT

Without wanting to overwrite the SASAUTOS library, Ron Cody's solution works like a charm: