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Econometrics Procedures
 

TSMODEL Procedure

SUBMIT Statement

  • SUBMIT <FILE= SAS-file-ref | 'File-path'> <submit-options>;

The SUBMIT statement indicates the start of your user-defined program statements or specifies the location of a file that contains your user-defined program statements.

If the SUBMIT statement does not specify a file, then all lines of code that are specified between the SUBMIT statement and the ENDSUBMIT statement are executed on the time series BY groups that arise from your timestamped input data. Compilation errors are reported back to the SAS log, and no further processing occurs.

Notice the placement of the SUBMIT and ENDSUBMIT in the example in the Comparison of the TSMODEL and TIMEDATA Procedures. The use of SUBMIT and ENDSUBMIT statements to delineate of the program block is a major difference between PROC TSMODEL and PROC TIMEDATA.

You can specify the following submit-options:

FILE=SAS-file-ref | 'File-path'

specifies a file that contains your user-defined program. If you specify this option, you must not specify the ENDSUBMIT statement.

You can specify the file either by including a SAS-file-ref that is defined in a prior SAS FILENAME statement or by including a quoted string that identifies the host-specific file path.

The following rules apply when you include the FILE= option:

  • The text file you specify must contain only the program statements that you want to submit and none of the PROC TSMODEL statements. You must not include an ENDSUBMIT statement in the file.

  • The text file you specify must not contain any SAS macro statements or macro variable references. The file content is submitted as specified.

  • You are free to use any mechanism of your choosing to generate the program statements in the text file. You can use a SAS DATA step with PUT statements, PROC LUA, PROC STREAM, and so on to generate the file from within a SAS program. You can use your favorite editor to generate the text file and then specify it in the SUBMIT statement if the content is static. For more information, see Getting Started with SAS Viya for Lua.

DYNAMICS=(var-1=[number | "string"] <var-2=[number | "string"]…>)

defines variables (constants) outside of the scope of the submitted code. These variables function as global arguments to the submitted code. In conjunction with the INSCALARS statement, these values can be used and evaluated within the submitted code. You can specify both numeric and character variable types. The type of the variable is determined by the right-hand side of the variable’s declaration. For example, consider the following DYNAMICS= option: 

DYNAMICS=(SOF='MAPE' HOLDOUT=10)

The variable SOF is defined as a character variable, and its static value is 'MAPE'. The variable HOLDOUT is defined as a numeric variable, and its static value is 10.

Last updated: July 09, 2026