The problem appears to be of scope of the macro variable VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES.
As you are defining this variable in the macro_var, declare it global.
%global VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES;
Without this macro resolution fails.
With this in view I have run a test code mimicking your code and see everything work.
My code is given below
/*
Step 1 : Create the macro macro_var and store in the auocall location
with the name macro_var.sas
The location of my auto call library is /home/myuid/Master
*/
%macro macro_var;
%global VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES;
%let VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES="resolved";
%put "This from inside the macro macro_var";
%put &=VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES ;
%mend macro_var;
The above is saved as macro_var.sas at my auto call library location /home/myuid/Master.
Next in created another program having macro_other as follows
Step 2 : Create the macro macro_other and call macro_var
%let path=/home/myuid/Master;
option sasautos=("&path" sasautos) mautosource mrecall;
%macro macro_other;
%macro_var
%put " From inside the macro_other but outside macro_var";
%put &=VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES. ;
%mend macro_other;
%macro_other
%put "From Outside the _macro_other";
%put &=VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES. ;
I executes the second code and the log is as follows
1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;
68
69 %let path=/home/myuid/Master;
70 option sasautos=("&path" sasautos) mautosource mrecall;
71 %macro macro_other;
72 %macro_var
73 %put " From inside the macro_other but outside macro_var";
74 %put &=VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES. ;
75
76 %mend macro_other;
77
78 %macro_other
"This from inside the macro macro_var"
VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES="resolved"
" From inside the macro_other but outside macro_var"
VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES="resolved"
79 %put "From Outside the _macro_other";
"From Outside the _macro_other"
80 %put &=VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES. ;
VARIABLE_MACRO_VAR_RESOLVES="resolved"
I have tested on SAS® OnDemand for Academics.
