Please bring back the Narratives from the PSS (Power and Sample Size) application. I found this very useful for rapidly generating a sensible, accurate report.   According to SAS Technical Support, the PSS application was replaced by a set of tasks in SAS Studio 3.6, but does not include the Narratives (described near the bottom of this page:https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63962/HTML/default/viewer.htm#statug_clientpss_sect006.htm )   More discussion here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/Community-Suggestion-Box/Bring-back-the-Narratives-from-the-PSS-Power-and-Sample-Size/idc-p/831196  ... View more

Not the most important functionality but still very useful: Please provide for closing Tabs in SAS EG and SAS Studio functionality similar to Notepad++   SAS EG:   Notepad++ ... View more

The SAS Enterprise Guide 8.x Start Page features the Recent Items and Pinned Items area which is useful, but quickly gets clogged up.   I know that a right-mouse click offers options [Remove from List] and [Clear Recent Items] to keep the list in some sort of order, but these options are either laborious or heavy-handed.   I suggest that we should be able to select several non-contiguous items, in either list, and then right-mouse click and remove them from the lists in one action. The selection could be made with a Ctrl-click combination, or by placing a check-box against each item, as offered by Windows Explorer. This would be a distinct improvement of this feature.   The screenshot below shows a typically congested Recent Items and Pinned Items area Cheers,   Downunder Dave Wellington   ... View more

Dear SAS-users, I work with registry data from national registries and often, when doing survival analysis, I have to account for left-truncation. I am a big fan of using the 'assess ph' statement to evaluate proportionality and linearity of covariates, since it is superior to manual, individual testing of each covariate and has been proven/evidenced to be reliable. Unfortunately, when using Proc Phreg in tandem with delayed entry, using either syntax : "model (start,stop) * event(0) = " OR "model (stop) * event(0) = / entry = start" The 'assess ph' statement is not included/functional. The zph statement is a poor substitute, as the supremum test P-values are not valid (no scientific backing) and relies on graphical interpretation.  This forces me to use R and the packages (prodlim) and (mets) instead. However, I would really like to stay within the SAS working environment, not having to skip back and forth between the two.  Would it be possible to add this feature?   In advance thanks for reading my suggestion 🙂  ... View more

I like being able to see a dataset or folder etc. is selected when clicked once. In this version of SAS EG, clicking on a dataset or a folder doesn't highlight/select it. You need to click it twice.   Also if you right click on an item, it doesn't highlight it.   This is minor but would be a simple and quick change. ... View more

Hello,   I do not know if this is possible, but can there not be a button or something to clear a process flow and/or all output from programs in a process flow? (results, log, external files, data sets).  It seems crazy to me that I have to manually delete all of these items each time a branch is ran.   I know there are options to select the number of data sets to add (Project Properties) and Show Generated Results, Add Output Data etc. (Tools->Options).  But I still have to set these options and then reset them and then set them again depending on the task.   Moreover, I cannot accomplish this via ComObjects either.   I do not yet have access to EG 8, so maybe something is in there?  I love SAS, like LOVE SAS, but not being able to clear results has turned into a seriously frustrating problem for me and my team.   Thanks for everything you all do, it is appreciated! ... View more

Are there any plans for SAS Studio custom tasks to be supported in EG or to include the SAS Studio task creation methodology (XML+Apache Velocity) inside EG? The current methodology for developing custom EG tasks is a real bind (as it involves .NET and publishing that, loading it into EG, testing it there, finding issues, going back to the source code, etc.). SAS Studio task development is much easier to develop and test custom tasks. being able to utilise these very powerful tools will enhance EG considerably. We have SAS-supplied SAS Studio tasks available in EG but it would be good to be able to use custom-created SAS Studio tasks in EG as well. ... View more

Create an option to enable  / disable to allow (or not) a program to run in program context menu. It's also usefull change program icon show it is disable. ... View more

Include in library context menu an option Browse ... View more

Hi,   The much under-loved Go To feature which allows a user to quickly scroll to the desired column when viewing a very w-i-d-e dataset is really, really useful, but so few SAS Enterprise Guide users know about it.   The feature would be greatly improved by allowing the user to choose whether the drop down list of columns were displayed in dataset order, as it is at the moment, or alphabetical order. Datasets with several hundred columns can be a nightmare to navigate through. This screenshot below shows a typical (mythical) dataset as presented by the Go To Cell dialog box (Ctrl-G for you keyboard folks). In this case the dataset only has 45 columns, but an option to display in alphabetical order would make this feature much easier to use. Giving the user the opportunity to choose how to see the columns listed would greatly improve this tool. Query Builder already offers this and SAS Enterprise Guide  8.x offers a system wide option to allow column lists inside tasks to be presented in alphabetical order.   Cheers, Downunder Dave Wellington     ... View more

Proposing the macro variable name "_CLIENTTASKLASTRUN", such would be inserted in to the code like so.  (How it would look in a program node log": 1 ;*';*";*/;quit;run; 2 OPTIONS PAGENO=MIN; 3 %LET _CLIENTTASKLABEL='LIBNAMES'; 4 %LET _CLIENTTASKLASTRUN='17OCT1991/14:45:32'; 5 %LET _CLIENTPROCESSFLOWNAME='Logs'; ... If the node has not been ran yet, last-run date would be null, and therefore... ... 4 %LET _CLIENTTASKLASTRUN='.'; ...   ... 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

Horizontal scroll wheels on mice, for example the Logitech MX series, do not work in SAS Enterprise Guide (8.3 but haven't tested on earlier versions) for either scrolling through wide tables or long lines in code files. This feature is working in Display Manager, and works in similar programs with table interfaces e.g. Excel or Access.   Presumably this feature has just been overlooked, would be great if it could be included! ... View more

In previous versions of Enterprise Guide, we were able to split our workspace horizontally or vertically (similar to EG 8.2). However, we were also able to set which is the primary window where any programs/datasets that open will be displayed. In complex EG projects where there are multiple Process Flows and within each flow, multiple programs and outputs, navigating them was extremely easy in EG 7 and below. I can double-click on any Process Flows and it will replace the previously opened Process Flow on the top horizontal workspace. I can then proceed to go through various programs/data sets in the Process Flow and these will open in the workspace below which is defined as the primary workspace. Everything makes sense.   Now in EG 8.1 and above, Process Flows are opened in the same workspace as programs. A new program will cover up the Process Flow and I will have to select the flow again to navigate around. I then try to set up a split horizontal tab. Unfortunately, every time I open a program or data set, it ONLY opens in the first horizontal tab. I then have to manually move it to the bottom tab. This is extremely counter-intuitive. The Process Flow should drive the navigation and have a dedicated window for them.    Furthermore, SAS Programs now default to a horizontal/vertical split of Code (top/left) and Log/Result/Output Data (bottom/right). This view barely works when you only have a single workspace. If you have a horizontal split, opening a program results in 3 horizontal splits! You barely have space for anything. When I am writing hundreds of lines of code, I want full visibility of my code. I don't care about my Logs until I run my code. Previous versions of EG worked very well. Now I have to manually move the Code tab down to the Log/Result/Output data tab. But if I open another program, it gives me the same view yet again! Extremely frustrating trying to do proper programming work in this new interface.    I suspect EG 8 will forever be in the same category as Windows 8 in my mind. If the original interface was not broken, don't try to fix it! ... View more

By system activity indicator I mean when a user queries a dataset using the "where" filter in EG while viewing a dataset, let there be an animated icon, progress bar, or some other indication that the system is working with the newly entered "where statement" indicating that it is or not finished with preparing the results. ... View more

There should be a section added to the settings that lets you direct the Log Summary view (which is already structured basically like a table), to a dataset within a sas library folder, or to external format like excel. It should include options to retain the log output to the window in addition to the external dataset output- you should not have to choose between one output or the other.  Also, it should give you option to limit the output going to the data set to only the content of interest, ie, just Errors,  or Errors and Warnings.   Using Proc Print To just saves all the messy text to a text file.  People need an easy way to send just the Errors for multiple programs to one cumulative TABLE  every day. ... 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

In Output Data window, use "smart" auto column sizing to prevent useless single character object/table names. Especially exasperating when you expand the window to the point where empty white space exists on RHS and still get single character width names....yes, you can adjust the column but surely the default should be more useful than a single character width?   EDIT: btw, adjusting width wouldn't be so painful if it wasn't for the pixel hunting required to do so. This and all other window/tab borders and sub-compartments.... ... View more