Enter relative path in Macros

ajkalale — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:50:49 GMT

Hi all,

I am having trouble setting a relative path in Unix environment.

I have uploaded the path.

There are datasets that need to be read from this path into a macro.

The purpose behind the macro is date imputation in a adam dataset.

Please give me viable solution to this problem!

Re: Enter relative path in Macros

ballardw — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:53:02 GMT

Recommendation: Do not use relative paths as you may not be executing where you think you are. I always start all paths with a drive identifier (running windows), or a UNC path including the server and mount point.

What code did you actually submit? That would likely be either a Filename or possibly and Infile statement.

If you try to use !sasroot you are almost always going to encounter a problem with either missing folders or permissions not allowed to write there, especially in a server environment. If you used an environment variable then that variable really needs to include a mount point or such.

BTW, datasets almost never should be "read into a macro". Possibly "read by a macro".

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Enter relative path in Macros

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