Load Current SAS Program Name to macro variable

[vandhan]

Hello,

I am working on some comparing datasets and wanted to make sure compare program using the correct datasets. 

EX: my program name is A. I want to compare A dataset with AA. But issue arised here is programmer compared B with BB and compare report showing all matched in program A.

I wanted to make sure in A program they compared only A dataset with AA.

so I wanted mitigation plan here and load program (A) name into pgm macro variable in A program. and call pgm macro variable as input dataset in compare setp.

Please help.  

[Kurt_Bremser]

It depends on the way you run your program.

In batch mode, there is a macro variable SYSPROCESSNAME that you can use.

From EG, you can see the current node name from within the project tree as _CLIENTTASKLABEL.

[RW9]

What software are you using, e.g. Base, Enterprise Guide etc.  How do you call the proc compare?  Surely you would have a paramter from that you can use?

%comp (inds=abc,compds=abcd);
  title "Dataset=&inds.  Comp=&Comp.";
...

Need some information to proceed.

[vandhan]

I am using EG only. i wanted to load A value to inds macro variable in this case.

[RW9]

Please present an example of what you mean, show some code, show what you want to see.

[vandhan]

I have program name ABC. I want to create a macro variable name PGM and it should have a value ABC. Do we have any system option or automatic macro variable for that?

[RW9]

Well in Base there is:

http://support.sas.com/kb/24/301.html

Don't know if that works in EG.  Why should the filename drive parameter though?  Would it not be better to generalise the compare and use paramters.

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@vandhan wrote:
I have program name ABC. I want to create a macro variable name PGM and it should have a value ABC. Do we have any system option or automatic macro variable for that?

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Look at the log as returned to EG. You'll find the variables created by EG right at the top:

1          ;*';*";*/;quit;run;
2          OPTIONS PAGENO=MIN;
3          %LET _CLIENTTASKLABEL='mytest';
4          %LET _CLIENTPROJECTPATH='';
5          %LET _CLIENTPROJECTNAME='';
6          %LET _SASPROGRAMFILE=;

With EG after 7.13 (or 7.13 with a hotfix applied), _SASPROGRAMFILE will also be populated.