SAS Companion for the CMS Environment

Autocall Libraries

An autocall library contains files that define SAS macros. SAS Institute supplies some autocall macros in the system autocall library; you can also define autocall macros yourself in a user autocall library. In order to use an autocall library, the SAS system option MAUTOSOURCE must be in effect. (See SAS Language Reference: Dictionary for details about MAUTOSOURCE.)

Specifying the Autocall Library

The SASAUTOS= option specifies the autocall library. An autocall library contains files that define SAS macros. In order to use the autocall facility, the SAS system option MAUTOSOURCE must be in effect. The syntax of the SASAUTOS= option is

SASAUTOS=file-specification | ('file-specification-1' . . . 'file-specification-n')

You can use the following arguments with the SASAUTOS= option:

file-specification

specifies the name of an aggregate external file that contains the SAS autocall macros. Each member is used to hold the source statements for one macro. Member names must be the same as the name of the macro.

You can specify the aggregate in a number of ways; see SASAUTOS= for details.

fileref

specifies a logical name that points to an aggregate external file.

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