topic Re: Programmatically determine SAS version in SAS Procedures

Programmatically determine SAS version

gguidarelli — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:26:56 GMT

Hi. I have a SAS program where I want to make sure version 8 or higher of SAS is being used. If user mistakenly runs it using version 7 or earlier, I want to exit immediately with an appropriate message. But I can't find any function that SAS offers to let me determine the running version. Is there such a thing?

Thanks.
Greg

Re: Programmatically determine SAS version

RickM — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:46:23 GMT

Look and see if the automatic macro variables &sysver or &sysvlong is what you want.

Re: Programmatically determine SAS version

gguidarelli — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:01:07 GMT

Yes, that's exactly what I need.

Thanks Rick.

Re: Programmatically determine SAS version

sbb — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:35:37 GMT

Why would you even have any SAS system installed that is prior to Version 8? Clearly you don't expect to get software defect/fix support with that type of environment. You really need to move those users up to a "supported" SAS version, which would be at least SAS version 9 and ideally 9.1.3 SP4 or 9.2.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: Programmatically determine SAS version

gguidarelli — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:53:55 GMT

Just playing it safe Scott. For whatever reason, the versions haven't been removed. We're not using them, but they're still accessible.