That’s because macros are evaluated before they are run. All the variables are “translated” before the macro is executed so if the macro itself changes the value of a variable, that change won’t be reflected during the same execution of the macro. To work around this, create a second macro called something like TEST_RESPOND, have that macro do the RESPOND TYPE=error MSG=‘{test}’ line, and call TEST_RESPOND at the end of TEST. Keep in mind that TEST_RESPOND will need to lookup the value of the test variable from the TEST macro.
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