Problem Note 3219: Extraneous information on %MEND issues a note instead of a warning
According to SAS Macro Language: Reference, the %MEND statement allows,
but does not require, the name of the macro for clarity purposes.
Further, any text other than the macro name should issue a warning.
The SAS System incorrectly issues a note instead of a warning. The text
of the note is:
NOTE: Extraneous information on %MEND statement ignored for macro
definition macro_name.
On the MVS operating system, a batch job which contains this extraneous
text, but generates no other errors or warnings, ends with a return code
of 4. This return code indicates that a warning occurred within the
program. Therefore, the return code is misleading.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | Base SAS | Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OS/2 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| CMS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | low |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Macro
|
| Date Modified: | 2000-09-01 15:57:20 |
| Date Created: | 2000-08-11 13:33:18 |
