Question

I have the following code:

%let host = HostThatSendsEmail;
%let todayDate = &SYSDATE9;
signon host;
rsubmit;


filename mail email to =    ("PersonGettingEmail")
        from=   "PersonSendingEmail"
        SUBJECT="Today is &todayDate";

data _null_;
    file mail;
    put 'Dear All';
    put 'Today is &todayDate';
run;

endrsubmit;

The macro date does not get inputed into the email when the code is run. The resulting email should read:

Dear all
Today is 29Mar12.

Instead it reads:

Dear all
Today is &TodayDate

Is there some piece of code I am missing?

Answer 1

You created the macro locally…but then you signed on to a remote host. Your remote session of SAS doesn’t know about the macro on the local host.

Using %SYSLPUT is one way to solve this problem (Another link).

Place this code between the SIGNON and the RSUBMIT

 %SYSLPUT TODAYDATE = &todayDate;

If you had a large number of macro vars that you wanted available on the remote host. You could write them to a data set and use PROC UPLOAD to move the data set to the remote host.