The scrollbars showing within any pane (mainly within the program, but it happens whenever there is a vertical or horizontal scrollbar) are barely wide enough to grab with a normal mouse arrow. Need wider scrollbars please. Have attached screen for your convenience.   Plus if scrollbars are changed at some point please try not to copy MS Outlook where the scrollbars are invisible until you mouse to an area where they are supposed to be and then they appear when needed.  Please keep wider scrollbars visible at all times.   Thanks!       ... View more

Hi, I cannot understand why SAS Enterprise Guide 8.3 has lost the RUN command on the context menu in the SAS Code node.    In SAS Enterprise Guide 7.15 and SAS Studio 3.8, the right-mouse click menu in the SAS Code node both contain a Run command, like this:   So now we've got all modern and adopted SAS Enterprise Guide 8.3, can we please have our old RUN command back ? I know a group of currently aggrieved users, and one particularly grumpy one, who will be much happier for its return.   Cheers,   Down Under Dave New Zealand ... View more

I would like to be able to select only the items I need to be listed in the "Recent Items" list. My preference would be to select only SAS Programs and EG projects. I don't want to get any table that I open or any library I access in the list. ... View more

It would be nice if the scrollbars (both vertical and horizontal) in the Code and Log tabs in EG 8 were as wide as the scrollbars in EG 7.  See attached. ... View more

I just came from an EXCELLENT talk on Enterprise Guide for Programmers at Boston Area SAS Users Group, by Chris Bost.   The talk is available at: http://www.basug.org/downloads/2013q2/Bost.pdf   Not surprsingly in a room full of programmers, during the discussion the question came up, "can I do a batch submit?"   And I think currently, the correct answer is "no, you can't, because EG is an interactive environment, in the same (similar) way that DM SAS is an interactive environment."   Chris B. helpfully pointed out that you can schedule an EG project, which accomplishes something like a batch session.   But here's the thing.  When I programming in SAS, I was taught that I should ALWAYS submit my final code as a batch job.  There are two main benefits.  1. You ensure that your code works on it's own, and isn't working (or failing) because you have a lot of temporary datasets / formats / macro variables / whatever assembled junk sitting in your work library.  2.  You get a log file.   During discussion it was suggested by someone that might be nice if EG just had a "batch submit button."  I think it's a grand idea.  If I press "Batch Submit", I want EG to spawn a new SAS session on the server, and execute my program in that new session, then return the results as usual. Getting a log file would also be nice, but that is a separable issue (and PROC PRINTTO is available as a workaround).   Now when using EG, it seems like there are approximations of ways to ensure that you have a clean session to run your code in: 1.  Schedule the flow. 2.  Write a macro that will try to clean up your session (delete temp datasets/filerefs/librefs/macro vars/etc etc) 3.  Disconnect from the server and then reconnect.  (I feel like EG is unhappy with me when I do this, maybe it's because my code is linked instead of embedded in the project, I think EG loses track of the links when I disconnect) 4.  Close EG and restart it.   To me, those are all work arounds for not having a batch submit  button.  Sounded like a grand idea to me, so wanted to throw it out to the group.   --Q.   (edited 12/10/13 to add link to slides from presentation, and make clear that "Chris" is Chris Bost, not Chris H.) ... View more

Users can open a SAS data set in Enterprise Guide without realising that they will be locking this data set. If a data set is left open in Enterprise Guide for an extended period, even though it may not be actively browsed, it can prevent any updates.   I have created an add-in (Simple Data Viewer) to copy a SAS data set into a DataGrid object, which separates the view of the data from the source data set, and does not need any lock to be set. This means that the source data set can be updated as required.   Can this functionality be incorporated into Enterprise Guide? ... View more

Using EG is like walking on glass shards, so I will not attempt to list all the deep cuts and all the paper cuts one has to continuously deal with. Still, one is annoying and repetitive enough that I must take the time to raise it here:     When deleting a table, one is sometimes told that the table is locked, as seen above.   The table is not visible in the process tree even though it is opened (without being identified) by one of the programs, and the easiest way is then to go back to the process flow view, search for the table somewhere in the flow, delete its shortcut there, and then one can delete the table proper.   Please provide a prompt instead of this ludicrous "unexpected error".       ... View more

The current Replace dialog is only regex search.  The text matching the regex pattern is replaced with the Replace with field literally.   The dialog should be improved to handle regex replacement as well.  Replace with: would allow find capture groups to be referenced as  $1, $2, $3, etc   For example, suppose I want to add square brackets around a sequence of consecutive digits.     Named capture groups should also be supported. For example:   Find: (?'digitrun'\d+) Replace: [${digitrun}]   The issue of no captures in replacement goes back to at least May 2017. See this post in communities    Because EG uses Enhanced Editor, the improvement should carry over into Windows SAS DM sessions.  If regex search and replace feature is not part of SAS Studio editor then that editor should be improved as well. ... View more

Please add a toggle switch that would alternate between displaying formatted and unformatted values in SAS data viewers.  Similar to the existing option to view Variable Names versus Variable Labels.  The current display always hows value labels and one has to resort to time-consuming tricks to unmask the relationship between value and format.  A simple toggle would permit a quick access to information hidden by the formatted values. ... View more

It would be convenient to have an option in EG to have the log automatically scrolled to the bottom instead of the top after a program finishes running.   I'm usually most interested in seeing the bottom of the log rather than the top (e.g., to see the record count in the last table created, or the error message if an ABORT CANCEL was hit, etc.).   Following are screenshots showing the default behavior and the desired behavior.   The default behavior   The desired behavior     (Note:  This was originally posted as a question on the community forum at https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Auto-scroll-to-bottom-of-log-in-SAS-Enterprise-Guide/m-p/730435/highlight/true#M38440)   Thanks,   Jake ... View more

I guess that there are many users who have to resort to using Excel or similar tools for data entry, as this is quite user-unfriendly to do in the current SAS frontends.   I therefore suggest creating a facility in Enterprise Guide and SAS Studio, similar to the old proc fsedit, for creating/editing SAS datasets. ... View more

When using pre-assigned libraries and right-clicking to display Properties, Enterprise Guide shows the storage path in metadata (/Shared Data/Libraries/.....). I would prefer to see the physical path of the library instead (as is shown for libraries assigned with the BASE engine). At least this should be a configurable option, or (ideally) both locations should be displayed. ... View more

I work with SAS EG 8.2. Please add the functionality that a new programm code is created as an external UTF8 *.sas-file by default. Maybe you need two options, one for internal/external, one for encoding. Today a new programm code (a) is created by default as an embedded code and (b) you can save it by default only into external as latin (SAVE AS from the embedded menu). ... View more

Often times I use the WHERE button in the dataview which works great. It would be very helpful to be able to quickly sort the dataview either in the normal view or while using the WHERE button. This would make validating data much faster than having to create a new query. ... View more

If there is a list of values (copied from excel or dataset or text file) that need to be used in where condition, strings need to be in quotes separated by comma. How about giving power to Find & Replace in SAS EG (Ctrl+H) like Notepad++ does.   For example I have: Acura Audi BMW Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Dodge Ford I want them : "Acura","Audi","BMW","Buick","Cadillac","Chevrolet","Chrysler","Dodge","Ford" Step 1: Open notepade++ and paste the values. Step 2: Remove leading and trailing blanks: Go to edit->Blank Operations->Trim leading and trailing space. Step 3: Put quotes: Open Search>Replace… in Notepad++ (Ctrl+H) Select Regular Expression and in find what add (.+) and in replace what add “\1” and click replace. This will add quotes to the words listed in the file when replaced.     Step 4 Separate by comma: Now in Find what add \r\n and in Replace with add just comma (,) as shown in screenshot.         ... View more

I was thinking that a "Run to Selected Node(s)" feature in SAS Enterprise Guide would be an amazing feature just like in SAS Data Integration Studio. The time that I would gain in not having to select all the nodes/task that need to run before a specific node/task in huge process flows would be tremendous... bringing my efficiency level to the top :-).   What do you think about this new feature? A must have or not?   Cheers,   Danny  ... View more

The where functions are perfectly valid so why red?   proc tabulate data=lib.test; class period_end; tables period_end; where period_end > '01jan19'd; run; proc freq data=lib.test; tables period_end; where period_end > '01jan19'd; run; ... View more

Please provide a function "export all code in ordered list".   I found the functions "export all code in process flow" and "export all code in project". But there is no "export all code in ordered list".   For development I use the Enterprise Guide 8.2. To organize the project I make many small code pieces (e.g. import_data.sas, aggreate_data,sas, export_2_excel.sas). To run them in a controlled sequence I use ordered lists. At the end I want to have all source codes (*.sas files) combined into one "single.sas" file.   I tried to use process flows, but this feature doesn't allow to have a code piece (e.g. initialize_libnames) to be part of many process flows and it is very clumsy to organize the sequence of the code pieces. ... View more

Today the 'history gets cleared when data is recreated.   When viewing data it would very nice if EG could remember previous used where clauses in the current EG Session – even when data is updated (re-run) or even used on another dataset (cross-data-use).       ... View more