topic Re: Historical List of Functions and Call Routines? in SAS Programming

Historical List of Functions and Call Routines?

RichardAD — Fri, 31 May 2024 18:01:21 GMT

Is there a place that documents when (year or release) a function or routine was added to SAS, and when it may have been bug fixed, altered, extended or deprecated?

Re: Historical List of Functions and Call Routines?

ballardw — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:18:12 GMT

Not that I'm aware of off hand.

You would also have to specify which operating system. Not all operating systems have been updated at the same time. I'm pretty sure that the SAS 6 versions for Windows lagged quite a bit from the more established main frame versions.

Plus some functions are moderately operating system dependent.

Re: Historical List of Functions and Call Routines?

data_null__ — Fri, 31 May 2024 22:45:17 GMT

You want TS486 but that is completely out of date and the link did not work.

You could get ideas for do it yourself from this paper by Peter Crawford.

https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/1744-2014.pdf

Re: Historical List of Functions and Call Routines?

SASKiwi — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:02:11 GMT

I'm curious to know how you would use such a list even if one was available? The current SAS documentation does a pretty good job of explaining all currently available ones. It's just a matter of searching to find what you want.