when supplying macro variables to teradata that need to be surrounded by single quotes, i use the %bquote(¯ovar) if the macro variable has the quote marks included as LinusH does with the symput statement.
the other use of %bquote('¯ovar') is to supply the single quotes inside the parentheses with the macrovar name.
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