Preparing SAS Files › Assign Your Own Program ID

Assign Your Own Program ID

Since there is no program ID in a SAS program, the SAS file name that appears in the first DATA sas-file-name statement is used as the program-id. If the source code is a macro that does not contain a DATA sas-file-name statement, the program-id is picked up from the macro name that appears in the %MACRO macro-name statement.

To assign your own program ID, add the following comment line as the first statement in the source code:

*PROGRAM-ID=........;

The comment line must:

• Be the first statement
• Begin in position 1
• Have a maximum of eight bytes assigned

  Terminate with a semi-colon