Call missing

The CALL MISSING routine assigns an ordinary numeric missing value (.) to each numeric variable in the argument list.

The CALL MISSING routine assigns a character missing value (a blank) to each character variable in the argument list. If the current length of the character variable equals the maximum length, the current length is not changed. Otherwise, the current length is set to 1.

You can mix character and numeric variables in the argument list.

prod='shoes';
invty=7498;
sales=23759;
call missing(prod,invty);
put prod= invty= sales=;

prod= invty=. sales=23759

XMRLMEM option

Obtain the amount of computer memory available to SAS with the undocumented XMRLMEM option.

data _null_;
      format amt comma20.;
      amt = input(getoption('xmrlmem'),20.);
      put amt=;
run;

The code shown above gives the total number of bytes of real memory available. (It does not count the operating system's virtual memory; only real memory). Divide this number by 1024 to get it into K's... or whatever to get it into Megs or Gigs.

XMRLMEM is an undocumented diagnostic option that can come in handy when considering allocating a bushel-full of buffers or considering doing some big-time hashing.

Link: http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/271-2007.pdf

Seperate data into EXCEL sheets

%macro multisheet;

proc sql noprint;
      select distinct age
      into :idage1 - :idage99
      from sashelp.class;
%let agecnt = &sqlobs;
quit;

%do i = 1 %to &agecnt;
PROC EXPORT DATA = sashelp.class(where=(age=&&idage&i))
            OUTFILE="C:\temp\class_ages.xls"
            DBMS= excel
            REPLACE;
      sheet = "Age_&&idage&i";
RUN;
%END;

%mend multisheet;
%multisheet

List Oracle tables in SAS

C-TASC specific

libname oralib ORACLE user=ctpmstat path="@xxxx" password = xxxxxxx;

proc freq data = oralib.all_tables;
      tables owner * table_name/list;
run;

X Command in SAS

*** Use sas to perform Unix command: find all xpt files under the known directory, sort by the directries, output in a txt file ***;

%macro find ;

X 'find /home/xxx -name "*.xpt" -exec ls -i1 {} \; | sort > /home/xxx/zzz.txt';

%if &sysrc ne 0 %then %do ;
endsas;
%end ;

%mend find ;

%find ;

Link: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/61924/HTML/default/exittemp.htm
Link:  www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2005/posters/po13.pdf