Date:         Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:09:19 GMT
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From:         Markov Ian Emmas <Markov@AŅEJO.COM>
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Subject:      Re: How to capture table name
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On 2 Jun 00 03:30:02 GMT, subramaniam.baskaran@DB.COM (Baskaran
Subramaniam) eructed:

>=>Hello List users...
>=>
>=>We are a OS/390 site. We have a SAS dataset which has got a table in it.
>=>We have to read the observations in it and populate an external file.
>=>
>=>Is there any way,  I can trap the table name and use it in the program for populating a message.

I am assuming that your SAS source code contains the name of the
table, and that you are not using PROC CONTENTS or PROC DATASETS
to generate a list of tables from which you programmatically
select the table for processing.

The simplest way then would be to set a macro variable value to
the table name, something like this (obviously untested):

%let table=MYLIB.INTABLE;
filename extern 'data.set.name'; /* if no //EXTERN DD */
data what.ever;
  set &table;
  file log;
  put "NOTE: Now processing &table";
  file extern;
  /* process */
run;