Not all systems have such a variable. Solaris 9 has env variable HOST but Solaris 2.6 and 8 has none.

Andre Wajda

RolandRB wrote:

> If it is just the hostname you want then you do not need a macro as > the value of it is assigned to a system environment variable called > HOSTNAME, most likely. So you get it like this: > > %let hostname=%sysget(HOSTNAME); > > If that does not work then try listing out all your system environment > variables and looking what is in them. That host name will be > somewhere. > > env | more > > ...then use the name you found that contains it in the %sysget as > above. > > > > kpkowitz@iwon.com (Kevin Kowitz) wrote in message news:<d521971f.0406100900.5663967b@posting.google.com>... > >>I wanted to be able to create the macro that just returns the hostname >>from our unix system. To do this, I wrote the following Macro. The >>problem is that the export statment is not happening or at least is >>not happening before the sysget statement. Each time I run this, I >>get a message saying that TMPXXXX variable does not exist. >> >>%MACRO UnixBox; >> %sysexec(export TMPXXXX=`hostname`); >> %let unixhost=%sysget(TMPXXXX); >> &unixhost. >>%MEND UnixBox; >> >>Any suggestions? >> >>(I know of several ways around this such as using a filename pipe >>statement and several data steps but I wanted to be able to just >>reference the macro in an if statement within a datastep.... ie. if >>upcase("%UnixBox")='NAME' then do;.... >> >>or within a SQL where clause... where upcase("%UnixBox")='NAME'. >> >>Using a filename pipe or an X command causes other problems that make >>it difficult if not impossible to use the macro in the fashion that I >>want to.) >> >>Thanks!