Using the Autocall Facility
A Brief Overview
You
can make macros accessible to your SAS session or program by using
the autocall facility to search predefined source libraries for macro
definitions. These predefined source libraries are known as autocall
libraries. You can store your macro definitions permanently
in an autocall library, and you can set up multiple autocall libraries.
When you store macro
definitions in an autocall library, you do not need to compile the
macro definition ahead of time to make it available for execution.
That is, if the macro definition is stored in an autocall library,
then you do not need to submit or include the macro definition before
you submit a call to the macro.
Suppose you have stored a file that contains ...
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