topic Re: Transfer an environnement variable unix into sas macro variable in SAS Enterprise Guide

Transfer an environnement variable unix into sas macro variable

Asmam — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:17:45 GMT

Hi everyone,

I create a global environnement variable unix (env), I want to transfer this variable to a macro variable sas, i used this command

%let person=%sysget(env);
%put &person;

the macro variable person is empty, when I put the environnement variable unix HOME instead of env, it's working !

help me please !

Re: Transfer an environnement variable unix into sas macro variable

Reeza — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:54:30 GMT

Are the variables case sensitive?

Re: Transfer an environnement variable unix into sas macro variable

TomKari — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:56:18 GMT

If you're using EG on windows with a Unix SAS server, the SAS environment is spinning up a workspace server session for your EG session.

I can't think offhand how you could populate an environment variable in that workspace session. Could you perhaps have SAS read the value from a file instead?

Tom

Re: Transfer an environnement variable unix into sas macro variable

Tom — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:04:06 GMT

How are you getting this environment variable created? It would need to be in the unix shell that is launching the SAS workspace server that EG is connecting to in order to be visible to your SAS session.

If you can use PIPE then you can have SAS ask Unix what environment variables exist.

data _null_;
  infile 'env' pipe;
  input;
  put _infile_;
run;