One of the most useful
aspects of macro programming is the ability to reuse your macro programs.
In
Creating and Using Macro Programs, you learned that compiled macros
are stored in a temporary SAS catalog by default and are available
for execution anytime during the current SAS session. You also learned
that macros stored in this temporary SAS catalog are deleted at the
end of the SAS session.
You might want to store
your macros permanently so that you can reuse them in later SAS sessions
or share them with others. There are several ways of storing your
macro programs permanently and of making them accessible during a
SAS session. The methods that you learn in this chapter are
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the autocall macro facility
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permanently stored compiled macros.