The era of SAS 9.3 arrives this summer. As a keen SAS user, I look forward to trying ten new features of SAS 9.3, disclosed by its online documents and Rick’s recent blog posts(his first post and his second post).
1. PROC GROOVY
SAS 9.3 ships with …
The era of SAS 9.3 arrives this summer. As a keen SAS user, I look forward to trying ten new features of SAS 9.3, disclosed by its online documents and Rick’s recent blog posts.
1. PROC GROOVY
SAS 9.3 ships with PROC GROOVY, a procedure designed to…
I feel privileged to have been invited back to meet with SAS customers throughout New Zealand and Australia. I also feel lucky to escape the North Carolina summer (with temperatures trending in the 90s Fahrenheit) in exchange for the “winter” wea…
I feel privileged to have been invited back to meet with SAS customers throughout New Zealand and Australia. I also feel lucky to escape the North Carolina summer (with temperatures trending in the 90s Fahrenheit) in exchange for the “winter” weather D…
It is well known that the French writer, author of The Three Musketeer, Alexandre Dumas, wrote his master piece of work in different colored papers according to literary genre:
non-fiction on rose,
fiction on blue,
poetry on yellow
The SAS blog writer, author of Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software, Rick Wicklin of SAS Institute, also leads a strong “color […]
The WriteMemberMetadata (WMM) permission was a welcome addition back when SAS 9.2 was released, because it allowed an administrator to distinguish between a users ability to manage a metadata folder from their ability to manage its contents. In SAS 9.1.3 there was only the WriteMetadata (WM) permission and, if you had the ability to manage […]
In a tweet by Gordon Cox last month, I was reminded of the restricted options facility available with SAS® software on UNIX platforms. This is capability where an administrator can set mandatory SAS system options at multiple levels of granularity: globally, per-group, and/or per-user. The reason for this post is that I don’t look at […]
When looking to add the Stored Process Alert Process (useful to see whether processes run in the BACKGROUND were completed successfully) the specific portlet type is not on the list.
No worries, it’s actually a personal portlet that is defined to…