My opinion is that there should NOT be new variables created due to missing value imputation. The original variable names are well enough. The process should only impute the new values in place of the missing values for these variables, and NOT create ‘IMP_’- variables,   From analyst point of view, there is no need on having BOTH variables included within your analysis; i.e. imputed and non-imputed values. You always use only one of theses two. ... View more

I'd like to suggest the addition of a particular variable selection method for Regression called “NONNEGATIVE GARROTE” method (Breiman, 1995)[1]. It is similar to LASSO and RIDGE REGRESSION, but slightly different. NONNEGATIVE GARROTE method performs variable selection based on the contraints b_i > 0 for all i.   Please see the following reading material for NONNEGATIVE GARROTE: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1269730?seq=1 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-25832-9_9   [1] Breiman, Leo. “Better Subset Regression Using the Nonnegative Garrote.” Technometrics, vol. 37, no. 4, 1995, pp. 373–384. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1269730. Accessed 30 Nov. 2020.   It would be invaluable to have this method as an available variable selection option in PROC LOGISTIC, PROC REG, or PROC DMREG. ... View more

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/How-do-I-get-regular-expressions-functions-in-PROC-FEDSQL/m-p/472453#M14809   PROC DS2; package regexp /overwrite=yes; method match(varchar(1024) pattern, varchar(1024) string) returns varchar(1024); return prxmatch(pattern, string); end; endpackage; run; QUIT; PROC FEDSQL; CREATE TABLE foo AS SELECT regexp.match('/[0-9]+/', id) AS test1, regexp.match('/[A-Z]+/', id) AS test FROM someDatabase.someSchema.someTable; QUIT;   With an error message of:   ERROR: Access Violation occurred during PREPARE! Access Violation? is the error that needs to be better explained. ... View more

Currently, the Java/C++ score code generated by SAS Enterprise Miner can only be deployed to Windows/Linux/MacOS environments.  More and more applications are being hosted on Mobile platforms (iOS, Android), and the ability to score data locally and instantaneously on a mobile device is highly desireable.  Consider offering score-code libraries that can be run on Android and/or iOS. ... View more

When accessing help internet explorer is launched to access help online.   SAS Support say "I can confirm that the behaviour you are seeing is expected and by design. Please note that the help of some of the procedures point to a specific User's Guide, such as the SAS/STAT User's Guide in the case of the GLIMMIX procedure, and these User's Guides are not part of the offline help files that are installed on your computer. Thus, it is not possible to prevent these from being redirected to the SAS Documentation website."   There are many circumstances when working offline is essential or simply the only option due to lack of internet coverage. The change to online help from locally installed help is a regressive step which limits the functionality of SAS. ... View more

SAS users around the word use many modules like SAS Studio, EG, EM, DI etc.    Most of these applications show the status of executing the program or project or flow but none of them shows the progress bar with real-time information about code/project/program estimated execution time. It will be very helpful for all to implement that feature in SAS applications like EM, EG, DI and others.     ... View more

The idea is to implement for SAS users the Tree ring that shows in the best way the outcome of the decision tree.  This element was a part of a very early version of EM and was very helpful and easy to understand by business people. We have a tree map but it's not easy to understand by most of them. Maybe it's worth of consideration because it will be simple to implement in next release. ... View more

The idea to improve SAS Software is to implement the function that allows using user-defined format in splits in Decision Tree. It will be really helpful. Often the labels on the splits have limited space and there is no option to use dates or user-defined format.    I know that there is an option to duplicate column in DB and then apply the format but when you have a really big table but it takes a lot of space. The simple solution will be to prepare for users this functionality that allows applying user defined format in EM. ... View more

Hello,   I wanted to share my experience with you regarding output generated by the Scorecard Node in SAS Enterprise Miner (EM), Version 14.1 in the Linux environment. I noticed that EM uses labels (as opposed to variable names) when creating the output from the Scorecard Node. If you have two characteristics, say Score_t0 (for Feb 2017) and Score_t1 (for Mar 2017) for a customer account but these characteristics have the same labels, say, Score then EM may bin these two characterstics using the Score label and you may not get the correct attributes. In other words, the attributes for these two different characteristics will be grouped together as one and you may get the same group for two levels of these characteristics. I should mention that the attibutes are correct when you view the Interactive Grouping Node window but the output from the Scorecard Node is not correct.   I had the same label for this variable, since I was extracting data in Base SAS, using the SQL pass through facility from the data warehouse. For coding purposes in Base SAS, we use variable names and not labels, and so it never occured to me that EM would use labels in the Scorecard Node output. To illustrate this issue, please see the partial output that is attached.   Based on my experience, I would suggest that SAS EM should use variable names (to be consistent with Base SAS) when creating outputs in SAS EM. If other users have also experienced this issue, can we make a recommendation to the SAS Institute to use variable names and not labels for output generated in SAS EM.   Thanks,   Nilotpal ... View more