Automatic Macro Variables Listed Alphabetically

Name	Syntax and Description
SYSADDRBITS Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the number of bits of an address. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSBUFFR Automatic Macro Variable	Contains text that is entered in response to a %INPUT statement when there is no corresponding macro variable. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSCC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the current condition code that SAS returns to your operating environment (the operating environment condition code). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSCHARWIDTH Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the character width value. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSDATASTEPPHASE Automatic Macro Variable	Indicates the current running phase of the DATA step. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSDATE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the date on which a SAS job or session began executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSDATE9 Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the date on which a SAS job or session began executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSDAY Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the day of the week on which a SAS job or session began executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSDEVIC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the current graphics device. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSDMG Automatic Macro Variable	Contains a return code that reflects an action taken on a damaged data set. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSDSN Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the libref and name of the most recently created SAS data set. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSENCODING Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the Compute Server session encoding. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSENDIAN Automatic Macro Variable	Contains an indication of the byte order of the current session. The possible values are LITTLE or BIG. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSENV Automatic Macro Variable	Reports whether SAS is running interactively. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSERR Automatic Macro Variable	Contains a return code status set by some SAS procedures and the DATA step. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSERRORTEXT Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the text of the last error message formatted for display in the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSFILRC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the return code from the last FILENAME statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSHOSTINFOLONG Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the operating environment information that is displayed when the HOSTINFOLONG option is specified. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSHOSTNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the host name of the computer that is running the SAS process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSINCLUDEFILEDEVICE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the device type of the current %INCLUDE file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSINCLUDEFILEDIR Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the directory where the current %INCLUDE file was found. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSINCLUDEFILEFILEREF Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the fileref that is associated with the current %INCLUDE file or blank. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSINCLUDEFILENAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the filename of the current %INCLUDE file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSINDEX Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the number of macros that have started execution in the current SAS job or session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSINFO Automatic Macro Variable	Contains return codes provided by some SAS procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSJOBID Automatic Macro Variable	Lists the process identification number (PID) of the process that is executing SAS. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSLAST Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the SAS data file created most recently. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSLCKRC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the return code from the most recent LOCK statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSLIBRC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the return code from the last LIBNAME statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSLOGAPPLNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the value of the LOGAPPLNAME= system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSMACRONAME Automatic Macro Variable	Returns the name of the currently executing macro. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSMAXLONG Automatic Macro Variable	Returns the maximum long integer value allowed under Linux, which is 9,007,199,254,740,992. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSMENV Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the invocation status of the macro that is currently executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSNCPU Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the current number of processors available to SAS for computations. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSNOBS Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the number of observations read from the last data set that was closed by the previous procedure or DATA step. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSODSESCAPECHAR Automatic Macro Variable	Displays the value of the ODS ESCAPECHAR= from within the program. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSODSGRAPHICS Automatic Macro Variable	Determines whether SAS ODS Graphics is enabled or disabled. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSODSPATH Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the current Output Delivery System (ODS) pathname. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPARM Automatic Macro Variable	Contains a character string that can be passed from the operating environment to SAS program steps. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPBUFF Automatic Macro Variable	Contains text supplied as macro parameter values. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPRINTTOLIST Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the path of the LIST file set by the PRINTTO procedure for future redirection. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPRINTTOLOG Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the path of the LOG file set by the PRINTTO procedure for future redirection. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPROCESSID Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the process ID of the current SAS process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPROCESSMODE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the Compute Server run mode or server type. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPROCESSNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the process name of the current SAS process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSPROCNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the procedure (or DATASTEP for DATA steps) currently being processed by the SAS Language Processor. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSRC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the decimal value of the exit status code that is returned by the last Linux command executed from your SAS session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSCP and SYSSCPL Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the abbreviation for your processor architecture. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSCPL Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the specific Linux environment that you are using. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSITE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the number assigned to your site. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSIZEOFLONG Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the length in bytes of a long integer in the current session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSIZEOFPTR Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the size in bytes of a pointer. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSIZEOFUNICODE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the length in bytes of a Unicode character in the current session. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSTARTID Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the ID generated from the last STARTSAS statement (experimental). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSSTARTNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the process name generated from the last STARTSAS statement (experimental). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSTCPIPHOSTNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the host names of the local and remote computers when multiple TCP/IP stacks are supported. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSTIME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the time at which a SAS job or session began executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSTIMEZONE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the time zone name based on TIMEZONE option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSTIMEZONEIDENT Automatic Macro Variable Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the time zone ID based on the TIMEZONE= system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSTIMEZONEOFFSET Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the current time zone offset based on TIMEZONE option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSUSERID Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the user ID or login of the current SAS process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSVER Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the release number of SAS software that is running. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSVIYARELEASE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the SAS Viya cadence release number. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
SYSVIYARELEASE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the SAS Viya cadence release number. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSVIYAVERSION Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the SAS Viya cadence version. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
SYSVIYAVERSION Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the SAS Viya cadence version. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSVLONG Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the release number and maintenance level of SAS software that is running. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSVLONG4 Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the release number and maintenance level of SAS software that is running and has a four-digit year. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference
SYSWARNINGTEXT Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the text of the last warning message formatted for display in the SAS log. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language: Reference

Last updated: March 23, 2022