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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSCHARWIDTH Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the character width value. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSDATASTEPPHASE Automatic Macro Variable	Indicates the current running phase of the DATA step. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSDATE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the date on which a SAS job or session began executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSDATE9 Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the date on which a SAS job or session began executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSDEVIC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the current graphics device. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSENCODING Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the Compute Server session encoding. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSENV Automatic Macro Variable	Reports whether SAS is running interactively. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSFILRC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the return code from the last FILENAME statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSINCLUDEFILEDEVICE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the device type of the current %INCLUDE file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSINCLUDEFILEDIR Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the directory where the current %INCLUDE file was found. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSINCLUDEFILENAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the filename of the current %INCLUDE file. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSINFO Automatic Macro Variable	Contains return codes provided by some SAS procedures. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSLAST Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the SAS data file created most recently. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSLCKRC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the return code from the most recent LOCK statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSLIBRC Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the return code from the last LIBNAME statement. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSLOGAPPLNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the value of the LOGAPPLNAME= system option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSMACRONAME Automatic Macro Variable	Returns the name of the currently executing macro. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSMENV Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the invocation status of the macro that is currently executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSNCPU Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the current number of processors available to SAS for computations. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSNOBS Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the number of observations that exist in the last data set that was closed by the previous procedure or DATA step. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSODSESCAPECHAR Automatic Macro Variable	Displays the value of the ODS ESCAPECHAR= from within the program. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSODSGRAPHICS Automatic Macro Variable	Determines whether SAS ODS Graphics is enabled or disabled. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSODSPATH Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the current Output Delivery System (ODS) pathname. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSPBUFF Automatic Macro Variable	Contains text supplied as macro parameter values. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSPROCESSID Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the process ID of the current SAS process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSPROCESSMODE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the Compute Server run mode or server type. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSPROCESSNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the process name of the current SAS process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSSCP and SYSSCPL Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the abbreviation for your processor architecture. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSSCPL Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the name of the specific Linux environment that you are using. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSSITE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the number assigned to your site. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSSIZEOFPTR Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the size in bytes of a pointer. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSSTARTID Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the ID generated from the last STARTSAS statement (experimental). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSSTARTNAME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the process name generated from the last STARTSAS statement (experimental). Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSTIME Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the time at which a SAS job or session began executing. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSTIMEZONE Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the time zone name based on TIMEZONE option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSTIMEZONEOFFSET Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the current time zone offset based on TIMEZONE option. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSUSERID Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the user ID or login of the current SAS process. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
SYSVER Automatic Macro Variable	Contains the release number of SAS software that is running. Product: Base SAS Document: SAS Macro Language Reference for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench
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 for SAS Viya Workbench

Last updated: June 5, 2026