SAS Macro Language: Reference

Additional Changes and Enhancements for OS/390, CMS, and OpenVMS VAX

For OS/390 (MVS), CMS, and OpenVMS VAX, the last changes and enhancements to the SAS Macro Language were made in the 6.09 Enhanced Release. Some changes and enhancements that were implemented for other operating environments in the 6.10, 6.11, and 6.12 releases were not implemented for OS/390, CMS, and OpenVMS VAX. This section describes those additional features.

Macro Statement

The following new macro statement invokes a SAS CALL routine:

%SYSCALL

Macro Functions

The following macro functions are new:

%SYSEVALF: evaluates arithmetic and logical expressions using floating-point arithmetic.
%SYSFUNC and %QSYSFUNC: execute SAS functions or user-written functions.

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