User written transformation - using rsubmit - sysrput - failing when using a conditional start

[Filipvdr]

Hello experts,

I've got the following situation:

We created a user written transformation, were we use a rsubmit. in the end we want to pass information back using the sysrput.

%sysrput vasyscc = &syscc.

It worked for our transformation, untill we putted a conditional start in front of the transformation. After googling we changed our code to:

%nrstr(%sysrput vasyscc = &syscc.);

Now it works if we have a conditional start in front of the transformation... but it doesn't work anymore if we have no conditional start.

Any suggestions or idea's?

[Patrick]

@Filipvdr 

You face all sorts of timing issues when combining SAS Macro code with RSUBMIT which require quoting to resolve. I guess you know that already given the current solution you found.

The problem is that the DIS conditional Start/End does exactly that: It wraps a macro around everything in its middle. What you need to do is to write your RSUBMIT code "macro sensitive" - so different code bits need to execute depending whether the RSUBMIT is wrapped into a SAS macro or not.

You could use a conditional start/end generated macro to determine if your code is "macro wrapped" or not. Below sample code uses DIS generated code and works inside and outside the cond start transformations.

/*%macro etls_conditionW2W2H81N;*/
/*   %local etls_conditionTrue;*/
/*   %let etls_conditionTrue = %eval(1=1);*/
/*   %if (&etls_conditionTrue=0) %then*/
/*   %do;*/
/*      %put ETLS_DIAG: Condition flow did NOT execute, condition was 1=1;*/
/*      %goto exitetls_conditionW2W2H81N;*/
/*   %end;*/
/*   %else*/
/*   %do;*/
/*      %put ETLS_DIAG: Condition flow did execute, condition was 1=1;*/
/*   %end;*/

/*---- Start of User Written Code  ----*/ 
options autosignon=yes sascmd= "!SASCMD";
rsubmit test;
  data _null_;
    call symputx('rtest','ABC');
    stop;
  run;

  data _null_;
    if symexist("etls_conditionTrue") then call execute('%nrstr(%sysrput ltest=&rtest;)');
    else call execute('%sysrput ltest=&rtest;');
    stop;
  run;
endrsubmit;

%put &=ltest;

/*---- End of User Written Code  ----*/ 

/*%exitetls_conditionW2W2H81N:*/
/*%mend etls_conditionW2W2H81N;*/
/**/
/*%etls_conditionW2W2H81N;*/

 If you uncomment the code currently commented then you get the DIS generated code with a conditional start/end.