Category: SAS

SAS Addin for Microsoft Office – Requires WRS to be installed

I was doing some testing of the new Addin to Microsoft Office (AMO) 4.3/M3 a week or two ago and specifically the addin for Outlook. When trying to open a SAS Report (.srx) in Outlook we got this error. Looks like the SAS AMO 4.3 plugin relies on the Web Report Studio web services that […]

Labeling variables by a macro in SAS

To rename the variables of a dataset in SAS is a daily routine. SAS or the programmer s would give an arbitrary name for any variable at the initial stage of data integration. Those names have to be modified afterward. Weisui [Ref.1] developed a macro …

NOTE: Inspiring Analytics

I was very pleased to meet SAS’s Chris Hemedinger at this year’s SAS Global Forum. Needless to say, he was espousing the virtues of Enterprise Guide when I found him!

If you’re a regular NOTE: reader you’ll know that I’m a fan of his blog. I was jolly…

The top 10 errors, notes and warnings that prompt DATA step programmers to call SAS Technical Support

Contributed by Kim Wilson, SAS Technical Support

As a DATA step programmer, you know the sigh of relief that comes when your job finishes and your SAS log is clear of any errors or warnings. When these messages do occur, most of the time they ar…

The top 10 errors, notes and warnings that prompt DATA step programmers to call SAS Technical Support

Contributed by Kim Wilson, SAS Technical Support As a DATA step programmer, you know the sigh of relief that comes when your job finishes and your SAS log is clear of any errors or warnings. When these messages do occur, most of the time they are intui…

Testing I/O on your SAS Server

At the SAS Global Forum 2011 in the Grid architecture session , it was mentioned that SAS servers should be looking for a minimum I/O throughput of between 30-50mb/s per server (or Grid node). There is a good SAS paper on how to test the I/O throughput of a SAS server on both Windows and […]