SYSGET

SYSGET

Returns the value of a specified host-environment variable

OS/390 specifics: host-variable

Syntax
Details
Example
See Also

Syntax

SYSGET (host-variable)

host-variable: is the name of one of the parameters defined in the CLIST by which SAS was invoked

Details

If the variable specified was not included in the SAS invocation, you receive a "NOTE: Invalid argument to the function SYSGET" and _ERROR_ is set to 1.

Example

The following example returns the system options specified in the OPTIONS parameter of the SAS CLIST and prints to the specified log.

data _null_;
  opstr=sysget('OPTIONS');
  if _ERROR_ then put 'no options supplied';
  else put 'options supplied are:' optstr;
run;

See Also

SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

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