SAS Enterprise Guide has come a long way since version 1.0 was released in 1999! Are any of you original users that remember the Help characters, Clippy, Peedy or Merlin? I was working as a statistician for another company that year, and I attended a SAS user group meeting where […]
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Have you seen this error when running a program in SAS Enterprise Guide? ERROR: You cannot open WORK.YOURDATA.DATA for output access with member-level control because WORK.YOURDATA.DATA is in use by you in resource environment IOM ROOT COMP ENV. It has a simple cause: the data set that your program is […]
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Would you like to see the latest features of SAS Enterprise Guide in action? Of course you would! That’s why it’s well worth the 12 minutes of your time to watch this video from SAS Global Forum 2016. In the video, Casey Smith (SAS’ R&D manager of the SAS Enterprise […]
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What’s the most common data reporting mechanism? Is it web-based reporting? PDFs? How about spreadsheets? Maybe, but in my experience many reports are delivered using a less-scalable and transient mechanism: e-mail. I’m a data steward at SAS. Specifically, I look after the operational data around our blogging program and our […]
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These days SAS programmers have more choices than ever before about how to run SAS. They can use the old Display Manager interface, or SAS Enterprise Guide, or the new kid on the block: SAS Studio. All of these are included with Base SAS. Once upon a time, the only choices were Display Manager (officially […]
I’m on my way back from SAS® Global Forum 2016 (#SASGF), where I heard all about the all new SAS Viya™ platform, and the next exciting thing on my agenda is attending Chris Hemedinger’s course Developing Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide in Sydney on 3-4 May (it’s also on in Melbourne on 5-6 May). … Continue reading “Next Up: SAS Enterprise Guide Custom Tasks Course in Sydney”
Have you ever been in a meeting in which a presenter is showing content on a web page — but the audience can’t read it because it’s too small? Then a guy sitting in the back of the room yells, “Control plus!”. Because, as we all know (right?), “Ctrl+” is […]
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Last week I described how to use PROC IOMOPERATE to list the active SAS sessions that have been spawned in your SAS environment. I promised that I would share a custom task that simplifies the technique. Today I’m sharing that task with you. How to get the SAS Spawned Processes […]
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