Hi Team,   We understand from SAS release roadmap that SAS Drive will be decommissioned after December 2025.   We request the incorporation of a new feature or tab within the Explore and Visualize page to replicate the functionality of the former Reports tab in SAS Drive. This tab was essential to our end users' workflows, as it provided a centralized, flat list of all reports accessible to the user, eliminating the need to manually browse through multiple folder levels. The current Explore & Visualize interface does not offer a comparable experience, making it less efficient for users who frequently access a wide variety of reports. We kindly request that a dedicated section or tab be added to Explore and Visualize, offering: A flat, searchable list of all accessible reports Functionality to pin or favorite commonly used reports A user-friendly replacement for the navigation experience provided by the SAS Drive Reports tab   Thank you for your support. ... View more

When dates are viewed in the VI GUI they are automatically displayed in the user's local time zone BUT when you export to Excel they are in UTC? This is confusing our users as quite rightly they expect to see the same data in both formats, this should be a bug fix and not a feature request IMHO... ... View more

Hello,   In Visual Investigator on Viya 4 (maybe in other tools too) dates are formatted according to the MDN suggestions. For the he_IL locale the MDN formatting is d.m.yyyy which is wrong. The correct formatting should be dd/mm/yyyy - days and months with leading zeros and slash as the separator. My request is to override the MDN date format for the he_IL locale and use the correct format.   Thanks ... View more

Disclaimer  Chatgpt helped med writh much of this but the text says what I want it to,  Description: Currently, the aggregation.aggregate action in CAS requires separate runs to produce multiple grouping levels (e.g., detail rows plus totals by a subset of the groupBy variables). Unlike other SAS aggregation tools (such as PROC MEANS with the WAYS statement), there is no built-in way to produce hierarchical roll-ups or all-combinations totals in a single execution. Proposed Enhancement: Introduce an parameter in aggregation.aggregate bygroup parameter similar to ALL in proc tabulate or the capabilities like PROC MEANS  WAYS statement. Alternativly, parameters such as this below could be an alternative. Use case: Performance: Potentially reduces the need for multiple passes over large CAS tables to generate totals at different levels, which saves CPU, memory, and I/O. Convenience: Aligns the CAS Aggregation.aggregate action with PROC MEANS / PROC SUMMARY capabilities, reducing the learning curve for SAS users transitioning to CAS actions. Scalability: Particularly beneficial for large public-sector or healthcare datasets where multiple aggregation levels are needed for reporting and policy analysis, and where processing time is critical. To my knowledge, the CAS Aggregation.aggregate action is the only way to realtivly easeley calculate rolling window statistics (such as rolling 12 months) of the NDISTICT statistica. Combining this with the possibility to easily calculate group totals of statistics  would be very useful. Example Use Case: Aa analytics team needs: Detailed monthly counts by department, sub-benefit, gender, decision outcome. Totals by gender across all other variables. Totals by department only. Grand total. Today, these require multiple aggregation.aggregate calls and post-processing merges. With some sort of by group total parameter, all could be produced in a single action step. Currently I have been able to simulate this usinf Cas arrays and formats, but the numbers of  needed dimensions in the array grow exponentially with the number of variable you need to have totals for, eventuall becoming unweildly. ... View more

Buongiorno,  nell'ottica di uno sviluppo di una dashboard con sas VA 8.5.1 si ha la necessità di poter nascondere in modo condizionale un oggetto visivo all'interno della pagina. In particolare si tratta di un oggetto key value da nascondere quando si seleziona uno o più valori da un oggetto filtro. Come nell'esempio della pagina caricata, alla selezione di un valore del filtro sottodominio si vorrebbe far sparire completamente il dato visualizzato nel key value Tempestività. Grazie ... View more

Buongiorno, nell'ottica di sviluppare una dashboard con SAS VA 8.5.1 si ha la necessità di visualizzare nella stessa pagina diversi indicatori con l'oggetto key values. L'esigenza è quella di poter dare una dimensione di grandezza del dato visualizzato all'interno, di modo che i numeri siano uguali e non che numeri piccoli siano grossi rispetto a numeri grandi che risultano piccoli. Come è possibile vedere nell'immagine allegata dove i numeri hanno dimensioni diverse anche se lo spazio per ogni key value è lo stesso. Grazie ... View more

Tanzu is a popular K8S platform provider - please add official support for it like you support OpenShift and cloud providers. ... View more

Currently at https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Product-Suggestions/idb-p/product-suggestions I am able to view "Hot Ideas", "New Ideas" and "Top Ideas" but I cannot see "My Ideas"    It would make life easier if one could easily locate his ideas to review their status ... View more

Please add an option to restrict the FROM= email option to a single value like "sas@example.com" or else force it to be the userid of the user running the SAS process. The current implementation allows spoofing by someone who changes the FROM= option to impersonate others. ... View more

  We have been using SAS Studio extensively for our data analysis and reporting needs. However, we have encountered a challenge with the process of exporting files. Currently, we must manually specify the location for exporting files each time, which adds extra steps to our workflow. The option to set this path as "default" currently does not exist in SAS Studio, unfortunately. To enhance efficiency and streamline our processes, we would like to request the following: Feature Enhancement Request: We propose adding a feature that allows users to set a default location for exporting files within SAS Studio. This would enable users to save time and reduce manual effort by automatically exporting files to a pre-defined directory. Please let us know if this feature can be included in an upcoming release or if there are any workarounds we can implement in the meantime ... View more

SAS Visual Analytics displays null values differently when using list table vs. cross tab. Cross tab displays a long dash for null Numeric values, while list table displays "."   This provides UI/UX inconsistencies.   Would be great if there are options provided in the VA Report for the users to choose how to display null values - both for numeric and text ones. ... View more

SAS Visual Investigator has a Conditions Configuration under Relationships. Given the UI placement, and given that it throws out an error that Current User configurations cannot be used under link styles - totally suggests that this configuration is meant to manage the access for each relationship. There are actual use cases as well where in the users will need to see all entities, and only relationships has a restriction.    Below are the points for SAS R&D consideration please: 1. If relationship conditions are only meant for link styles, then please keep this configuration page under views and not have a separate conditions tab. 2. To the users, it was an expectation that we can restrict access to relationships similar to how we can restrict access to entities. Introducing this capability would be great to further highlight the business value of the SAS Solution to the users. SAS is able to provide a lot of analytics and data capabilities - Users expect that SAS is able to meet foundation operational requirements as well to facilitate holistic production usability. ... View more

Context: We are currently configuring the Detail View and snippet return behavior within SAS Visual Investigator for our entity object types. Based on our current implementation, when a fielded search is performed (i.e., one or more fields are specified in the search query), the returned snippet includes not only the matched term but also several lines of surrounding context. While this may be useful in general-purpose search scenarios, our use case requires a more concise output. As per VI Admin Guide:     Request / Suggestion: We would like to restrict the snippet return in fielded searches to only the exact matched term, excluding any surrounding context or extra lines. In other words, we are looking for a configuration that returns: The exact match only No contextual preview or surrounding text Matched term still highlighted (if possible), but no additional characters before or after   Clarification Noted in Documentation: From the documentation (as shown in the attached screenshot), we understand that: Snippet text is always returned with basic (free text) searches The snippet text configuration in the Detail View applies only to fielded searches Given this, we are seeking guidance or a configuration update on how to: Disable or minimize the snippet text to return only the match itself for fielded searches  Example: When we search "emails: Current behavior: "...claimed they check their emails during the night..." Desired behavior: emails   ... View more

Hi I would like to request the maximum number of allowable bookmakers in SAS Viya LEI be increased from the current 50 to a much larger number. Say 200-500. Users like the bookmark feature, but find the 50 bookmark limit frustrating Does anyone else have this need for increase number of bookmarks? From SAS Support As per the documentation, the maximum number for adding bookmarks is 50. See the documentation: https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/viiimcdc/v_033/iimag/configuringbookmarks.htm#p09xz8wpl34s5rn1kmoeb7jbtk4c [https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/viiimcdc/v_033/iimag/configuringbookmarks.htm#p09xz8wpl34s5rn1kmoeb7jbtk4c] (Access Key: !Nv3stgt)   Thanks   Paul ... View more

Add support for Red Hat Quay as a Container Registry for SAS Viya deployments in Kubernetes. ... View more

Dear SAS Visual Analytics Team, I hope this message finds you well. I would like to propose an enhancement to the user interface design of SAS Visual Analytics. It would be incredibly helpful if you could implement UI elements commonly found in modern web applications. Specifically, I suggest introducing a side navigation panel with an accordion-style menu. For example, as illustrated in the attached image, clicking on a parent item such as “Income” would expand to reveal sub-items like “Earnings,” “Refunds,” “Declines,” and “Payouts.” This type of UI improves navigation efficiency and overall usability, especially for dashboards with complex data structures. Thank you for considering this feature enhancement. I believe it will greatly improve the user experience for a wide range of users. Best regards,   ... View more

Currently in SAS Viya Unable to rename folder shortcuts, when the shortcut is pointed to a folder that I have read-only access to. Whereas the shortcuts that I have read/write access to all have a ‘Rename’ option when I right-click on them. With read only access, I am able to create and delete a shortcut but Rename is not an option. There should be functionality to rename the shortcut similar to Delete. ... View more

In a local environment (on the same machine), SAS can use DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) to write data to specific cells in an existing Excel file. However, this is not possible when the SAS session is run on a remote machine. DDE alternatives, such as ODS (Output Delivery System for Excel) and SAS/ACCESS to PC Files, do not allow data to be written to specific cells in existing Excel files.   We would like to see the functionality of ODS (Output Delivery System for Excel) and SAS/ACCESS to PC Files improved so that data can be output to specific cells in a sheet of an Excel file that already contains data. We have received strong requests for this function not only from our company but also from our contractors who use the environment provided by our company to perform analysis with SAS.   For example, in Python, the library openpyxl can be used to write data directly into specific cells in an existing Excel file without the need for an Excel application. If this is possible in other languages, it may also be possible to implement similar functionality in SAS through alternative means. If implemented, it would enhance the value of SAS as software. ... View more

Currently when you write parquet files via the sas libname engine the parquet types are fully determined by the informat only.  That is to say if you have a numeric variable with a datetime20. format and no informat it will be written to the parquet file as a double.     The feature request is that if no informats are specified SAS should use sensible default types based on the format.  It is very intuitive that a datetime20. format column should be written as a timestamp thus users should not have to be burdened for defining informat types for what should be obvious conversions.  ... View more