Tag: SAS Enterprise Guide

XCMD and SAS 9.3: working together again

It’s been a well-known limitation for a long time.  When you connect to a SAS session using SAS Enterprise Guide, shell commands (including X command, SYSTASK, and FILENAME PIPE) are off-limits because the default SAS invocation disables them.  It does this by including -NOXCMD as a command-line option. This makes […]

Frequently asked questions about SAS 9.3 and SAS Enterprise Guide

As I write this, SAS 9.3 has not yet been “shipped”, but its release is imminent. I’ve already heard many questions about how SAS Enterprise Guide works with the new version, so I decided to write this “Frequently-soon-to-be-asked questions” document t…

Updated SAS Enterprise Guide Admin Paper

One of the papers I regularly recommended to administrators of SAS® Enterprise Guide was TS-788 What SAS® Administrators Should Know about Libraries, Metadata, and SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.1 (PDF), especially for its discussion of the AssignMode extended attribute. Thanks to a recent post by Chris Hemedinger on The SAS Dummy blog, I’ve discovered that there’s […]

SAS Enterprise Guide options: my favorite 5

SAS Enterprise Guide has about 150 options that you can customize in the Tools->Options window. With each release, the development team adds a few more options that have been asked for by customers, and they rarely decommission any existing optio…