How to call one macro program from another in the SAS Enterprise Guide?

Question

Is there any macro that allows calling one program from another (pseudo code %run_program() )?

Settings program:

 %let myvar="HELLO WORLD!"; 

Program "Program":

 %run_program(Settings); *Pseudo-code; %put &myvar; *Should print *Should print "HELLO WORLD!"; 

Answer 1

This is not an exact answer to your question, but if you only want to make sure that Settings is executed before Program , when Run Process Flow you can link them together.

• Right click Settings ,
• select Link Settings to... ,
• and select Program in the dialog box.
• Run Process Flow And watch how Hello World will be printed in a magazine.

Answer 2

I think you are looking for the %include function.

You will need to save "Settings" as a standalone program on your server, for example, "/myserver/somefolder/settings.sas".

Then you can verify that it is running through:

 ...some code %include ('/myserver/somefolder/settings.sas'); ... more code 

The program will work just as if you had copied the contents of "settings.sas" into the current program.

Answer 3

In addition to the Flow process, you can also create an ordered list. This allows you to run programs in the same process thread in several different orders (or run a subset of the process thread).

You create this in the New → Ordered List, then add programs to it, move them up / down in the desired order. Then you see the ordered list on the left in the project tree and you can right-click to launch it (or select F8).

There is no macro to run a program in enterprise management; you can use automation through .NET if you want to do something like this. Chris Hemedinger at SAS Dummy has a good EG Automation article.