I am not going to read 100's of pages of documentation for a third party product so you'll have to do some work.
I found links to several macros, so which specific one are you attempting to use?
You are quite likely to have issues if you are new with SAS. The most common is that the macro code has to be submitted to compile the macro. That is the code that starts with the %macro statement and then ends with %mend.
Then you call the macro with something like:
%thatmacro (<and the parameters go here>)
The macro definitions hopefully let you know what each value should look like and what it would reference. Common items are source datasets, output data sets and options for the macro to use.
If you attempt to run macro code without compiling it first you get errors like this:
529 %thismac(a=b)
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180
WARNING: Apparent invocation of macro THISMAC not resolved.
ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.
That means you need to submit the code that should start with: %macro thismac(a= ) .
Other issues, such as missing or incomplete parameters are bit harder. You can turn on additional information in the log by submitting:
OPTIONS MPRINT;
That will have the Log contain the generated code and any issues like warning or error messages will appear in closer proximity to the generated code that caused the message.
If you have errors or warnings: Execute the Options mprint; run the macro. Copy from the log all of the generated code with all of the messages (yes this gets long but many issues with macro mischief come from a "minor" piece missing many lines before). Then on the forum open a code box with the </> and paste the code and log. This last step is important. Look earlier in this post for the code with the error I posted. There is an _ character under the % for thismac . That is a diagnostic character that indicates the first place SAS found an issue. If you paste the code in the main message window on this forum then the character will not appear in the correct place as the message windows will reformat text by removing white space (and actually replace it with HTML tags) which means what you see is not what the diagnostic intends.
