This may be useful to someone. I was looking to control SAS processing, based on the value of _ERROR_. If the value of error can be converted into a macro variable, then this becomes possible.  The code is as follows:   proc delete data = have; run;   data have; set sashelp.class; call symputx(' error ', _error_); run;   %put &error;   proc delete data = have; run;   data have; set sashelp.class; v = 10 + 'GGGGGG'; call symputx(' error ', _error_); run;   %put &error;   proc delete data = have; run;   data have; set sashelp.class; call symputx(' error ', _error_); run;   %put &error; ... View more