SAS Companion for the OS/390 Environment

Macro Functions

The following macro functions have OS/390-specific aspects:

under OS/390 and other systems that use the EBCDIC collating sequence, if you specify no delimiters, SAS treats all of the following characters as delimiters:

blank . < ( + | & ! $ * ) ; ¬ - / , % ¦ ¢

%SYSGET

has no effect under OS/390 except to generate the following message:

WARNING: The argument to macro function %SYSGET is
         not defined as a system variable.

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