Hello!
Is it possible to create read only macro variables?
Right now some global macro variables are created in the appserver_autoexec_usermods.sas configuration files. Unfortunately those variables can me modified by all users, causing some trouble when it happens in a stored process ...
Any ideas?
Unfortunately not
Eric Sun and I looked into a number of protection issues not only for the macro variables, but also for the macros themselves. We were able to come up with a few work arounds, but protecting the variables themselves is still not possible. See the paper at:
http://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2011/ad/pharmasug-2011-ad17.pdf
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