Have you tried getting rid of the quotes with %PUT? ... View more

A design that approximates a balanced incomplete block design should do the trick. A fully balanced design is not possible with 400 papers and your other constraints. All you need is one simple line:   %mktbibd(b=400,k=2,v=3) ... View more

I'm not even going to begin to figure out what you are doing. However, after writing tens of thousands of lines of macro code over the years, I can tell you my strategy. Never write macro code when you can avoid writing macro code. If you need to process a bunch of macro variables, do it in the context of DATA _NULL_, SYMGET, ordinary DATA step statements, and SYMPUT. Your life will be much easier. ... View more

You might find this discussion helpful even though it does not explicitly mention SQL. https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/v_018/statug/statug_ods_examples06.htm ... View more

This doesn't really answer your question, but here are some notes.   Some procedures are interactive. You can submit multiple groups of statements within a procedure for multiple results. Such procedures by design do not stop after an error.   Most procedures by design do not stop if there is a data error in a BY group.   I was a procedure and macro developer at SAS for many years. In my macros, I would put statements like this at the end of each step: %if &syserr %then %goto %abort; That way I could stop my macro if something bad happened internally, but it was not always guaranteed to work for reasons cited above. ... View more

Jill is in tech support and will be able to help you. Tell her Warren says "hi." ... View more

I wrote that error message. It is part of an internal system and should not ever be surfaced to users.  Please contact SAS technical Support and provide enough information to reproduce the problem. ... View more

Be sure to create the lag unconditionally, even if you use the value conditionally.   Be sure to read the documentation. If you have expectations on the behavior of lag as a matrix operator, you will find that they don't apply to a function in a general language like the SAS DATA step. https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/lefunctionsref/n0l66p5oqex1f2n1quuopdvtcjqb.htm ... View more

Try adding PLOTS=MATRIX(NVARS=ALL) to your proc statement.     https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/procstat/procstat_corr_syntax01.htm#procstat.corr.plotsopt ... View more

Every customization, of which I was aware that customers wanted before I retired, is illustrated in this chapter. https://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/stat/151/kaplan.pdf ... View more

Your trace output has mclinesinfo and mclinesrange but not mclines. You need to specify the exact names that GLM uses. ... View more

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/statcdc/14.2/statug/statug_transreg_details02.htm   ... View more

The KM plot modification work was a work in progress for many years. If you search all the sites mentioned in the reply, you will find old conference papers and other obsolete material. The last set of work is the SAS/STAT 15.1 chapter. https://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/stat/151/kaplan.pdf . I believe this is the final word on this topic (at least from SAS) as there is no one left there to work on it any more. In that final chapter, I wrote about every user-requested graph modification of which I was informed.   Also, independent of my work, Jefferey Meyers has done some great work on this topic. ... View more

https://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/stat/151/kaplan.pdf   If you are customizing the Kaplan-Meier plot, you should know about this chapter. ... View more

Use symputx not symput. The former is designed to do automatic numeric to character conversions. ... View more