Supporting Macros

The following macros support SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit internal validation. Many of these macros are also used for other purposes.

These macros are located in the primary SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit autocall path:

Microsoft Windows

!sasroot/cstframework/sasmacro
UNIX

!sasroot/sasautos

For complete macro documentation, see the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit: Macro API Documentation.

Autocall Macros That Support Internal Validation
Macro	Primary Purpose
%CSTCHECKENTITYNOTFOUND	Reports that a SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit entity (typically a file, folder, or column) cannot be found.
%CSTCHECKUTILCHECKFILE	Determines whether a file exists as defined by columns in a source data set.
%CSTCHECKUTILCHECKFOLDER	Determines whether a folder exists as defined by columns in a source data set.
%CSTCHECKUTILCHECKSTRUCTURE	Compares the structure of data sets referenced within StandardSASReferences or SASReferences data sets against a template.
%CSTCHECKUTILFINDSASREFSFILE	Determines whether designated files in the referenced SASReferences data set exist.
%CSTCHECKUTILLOOKUPVALUES	Determines whether metadata column values for discrete columns exist in the Standardlookup data set.
%CSTUTILBUILDMETADATAFROMSASREFS	Builds the framework reference_tables and reference_columns data sets.
%CSTUTILBUILDSTDVALIDATIONCODE	Generates the validation-specific macro _cstreadStds to build the workflow.
%CSTUTILCHECKFORPROBLEM	Handles any error condition that sets error condition _cst_rc to 1.
%CSTUTILCHECKWRITEACCESS	Checks for Write access for an output object.
%CSTUTILCOMPARESTRUCTURE	Compares the metadata structure of two data sets.
%CSTUTILFINDVALIDFILE	Checks whether a folder, file, data set, catalog, or catalog member exists.
%CSTUTILPROCESSFAILED	Returns a Boolean value to report whether a process failed.
%CSTUTILVALIDATESASREFERENCES	Validates the structure and content of a SASReferences data set.
%CSTUTILVALIDATIONSUMMARY	Summarizes the contents of the validation process results data set.