SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment |
The following SAS language elements have been enhanced:
The following SAS format and informat have been enhanced:
- $HEXw. format
- converts character values to hexadecimal
values. The width range is increased to 1-32767.
- $HEXw. informat
- converts hexadecimal data to character data.
The width range is increased to 1-32767.
For more information about formats, see
SAS Formats under Windows.
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Functions and CALL Routines |
- The following SAS function has been
enhanced:
- COLLATE
- generates a collating sequence character
string. The 200-character restriction has been removed.
- The following SAS functions and CALL routines
are no longer supported:
- HOSTHELP
- CALL ANSI2OEM
- CALL
OEM2ANSI
For more information about functions and call routines,
see SAS Functions under Windows.
The following SAS automatic macro variables are new:
- SYSCC
- contains the current SAS condition code
that SAS returns to Windows when you exit SAS.
- SYSMAXLONG
- returns the maximum long integer value that
is allowed under Windows.
For more information about macros, see
SAS Macro Facility under Windows.
The following SAS procedure is no longer
supported:
For more information about procedures, see
SAS Procedures under Windows.
The following SAS statements are new:
-
SYSTASK
- executes, lists, or terminates asynchrnous tasks.
-
WAITFOR
- suspends execution of the current SAS session until the
specified tasks finish executing
The following SAS statements have been enhanced:
- LIBNAME
- associates a libref with a SAS data library,
lists file attributes for a SAS data library, and can concatenate libraries.
The valid values for the engine-name argument
were modified:
-
the V8 engine is the current BASE engine
- the V7
engine accesses Version 7 data sets.
- the V6 engine accesses data sets for Release 6.04
and Release 6.08 through Release
6.12.
New host options for the LIBNAME statement include:
- SHORTFILEEXT
- LONGFILEEXT
-
MEMLIB
- FILENAME
- associates a SAS fileref with an external
file or logical file device. The FILENAME statement now supports wildcard
characters.
Also, when the COMMPORT option is specified, a new host option, DROPNULL,
can be specified to discard null bytes when received. When using pipes, the
host-option CONSOLE can be used to minimize the DOS window.
For more information about statements, see
SAS Statements under Windows.
The following SAS commands are new:
- DLGPAGESETUP
- opens the Page Setup dialog box.
- WATTENTION
- displays the Tasking Manager window which
allows you to select which SAS process to terminate.
- WAUTOSAVE
- controls how often the SAS System automatically
saves work from the editor windows.
- WDOCKVIEW
- toggles the Docking View feature on and
off.
-
WEDIT
- opens an Enhanced Editor session.
- WEXITSAVE
- toggles the Save settings on exit feature
on and off.
- WHIDECURSOR
- toggles hiding the cursor in non-input windows.
-
WNAVKEYUNMARK
- toggles the setting to unmark text using navigational keys.
- WRTFSAVE
- saves a text window as a rich text format file.
- WSCREENTIPS
- toggles the ScreenTips on and off.
- WWINDOWBAR
- toggles the window bar on and off.
For more information about commands, see
SAS Commands under Windows.
The following SAS system options are new:
-
ENHANCEDEDITOR
- specifies to enable the Enhanced Editor during SAS System
invocation.
- FONTSLOC
- specifies the directory location of the
files that contain the SAS fonts that are loaded during the SAS session.
- GISMAPS
- specifies the name of the SAS data library
that contains U.S. Census Tract maps supplied by SAS/GIS software.
- HOSTPRINT
- specifies that the Windows Print Manager
is to be used for printing.
-
MEMCACHE
- specifies to use Extended Server Memory Architecture (ESMA)
memory as a SAS System cache.
-
MEMLIB
- specifies to use Extended Server Memory Architecture (ESMA)
memory as an in-memory library.
- MSGCASE
- specifies whether notes, warnings, and error
messages that are generated by SAS are displayed in uppercase characters.
- RESOURCELOC
- specifies the directory location of the
files that contain SAS resources.
- SASINITIALFOLDER
- specifies the current working folder and the default folder
for the Open and Save As dialog boxes.
- SCROLLBARFLASH
- specifies whether to allow scrollbars to
receive keyboard focus.
-
SGIO
- specifies to enable Scatter-read/Gather-write I/O processing.
- SHORTFILEEXT
- defines all SAS libraries to support three-character
file extensions.
- UNBUFLOG
- specifies the log to be unbuffered.
The following SAS system options have been enhanced:
- ENGINE
- specifies the default access method for
SAS data libraries. The valid values for the engine-name
argument were modified:
-
the V8 engine was added as the current BASE
engine
- the V7 engine was added to access Version 7 data sets.
- the V6 engine was added to access Release
6.04 and Release 6.08 through Release
6.12 data sets.
- CONFIG
- specifies an alternative SAS configuration
file. CONFIG may now be used multiple times on the command line or within
configuration files.
The following SAS system options no longer have details
that are specific for Windows:
CBUFNO |
MSGLEVEL |
NEWS |
SYNCHIO |
For more
information about system options, see SAS System Options under Windows.
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