SAS BI Prompts: Gettin’ User Friendly

When creating prompts in SAS Business Intelligence or SAS Enterprise Guide, the value the database or your code uses to populate the field may not be user-friendly.  Certainly you want your user community to think you are that cool BI developer tucked…

SAS 9.4 – Wahoo!

I have seen my first tech support track response that mentions SAS 9.4. Wahoo the countdown begins! SAS 9.4 is also mentioned once on the support.sas.com site: http://support.sas.com/techsup/pcn/openvms93.html  

Take SAS program editor abbreviations to the next level

Rick posted a tip today about using abbreviations in the SAS program editor window (often referred to as the “enhanced editor”). Defining abbreviations is a great way to save keystrokes and re-use “templates” of code that you’ve squirreled away. (One of Rick’s readers also picked up on the tip, and […]

Character substitutions in the SAS editor

Rick Wicklin dropped a gem today!  The SAS enhanced editor includes a text replacement feature– who knew?  The use of it is laid out in this SAS paper.
Briefly, just click on Tools > Add Abbreviation, then type in the shortcut and the tex…