Love the sysecho statement! Particularly when you are running a large piece of code that takes a long time. I have a simply sysecho macro:

%macro sysecho(msg);
sysecho "&msg %sysfunc(datetime(),datetime19.)";
%mend;

and in my code use (for example): %sysecho(Extract from Oracle);

That way I can keep track of which piece of code is executing, and how long it's taking..