/* this macro will take all the cases from the datasets named	*/
/* dataset1 through dataset 5 and put them in a dataset named	*/
/* newdata.  the five datasets must have the same number of	*/
/* variables and the variables must have the same names, 	*/
/* across all the datasets.					*/


%macro datasets;

/* create the new dataset from the first dataset 	*/

proc copy in=dataset1 out=newdata;
run;

/* add the remaining datasets to the new dataset	*/

%do j=2 %to 5;
proc append base=newdata data=dataset&j;
%end;

%mend datasets;

%datasets;