Macro Variable _ORBOM

The BOM Procedure

Macro Variable _ORBOM_

The BOM procedure defines a macro variable named _ORBOM_. This variable contains a character string that indicates the status of the procedure. It is set at procedure termination. The form of the _ORBOM_ character string is STATUS= REASON=, where STATUS= is either SUCCESSFUL or ERROR_EXIT, and REASON= (if PROC BOM terminated unsuccessfully) can be one of the following:

: CYCLE
: BADDATA_ERROR
: MEMORY_ERROR
: IO_ERROR
: SEMANTIC_ERROR
: SYNTAX_ERROR
: BOM_BUG
: UNKNOWN_ERROR

This information can be used when PROC BOM is one step in a larger program that needs to determine whether the procedure terminated successfully or not. Because _ORBOM_ is a standard SAS macro variable, it can be used in the ways that all macro variables can be used.

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