ODBC Password Security in SAS
问题 We want to remove hardcoded passwords from ODBC connection strings in our SAS code, and also prevent any of the passwords from appearing in the SAS log files. There seems to be plenty of whitepapers discussing how to go about this but I either find problems with them, or can't get them working. Prompting the user each time for the PW is not a viable alternative. Also, storing the password in a macro variable is an acceptable approach, as long as you have a way to suppress it from printing to