When copying code from SAS Studio from a browser to Word the syntax highlighting disappears so the code appears all as black, rather than have the same highlight colours as in the browser.    This makes making documentation, presentations and tutorials more difficult as the colours may not match between the views.    This is based o this question here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Copy-and-paste-SAS-Studio-code-to-Word-Document/m-p/644502   ... View more

There are Linux PAM modules like pam_oddjob_mkhomedir and the older pam_mkhomedir that do the job of automatically creating a home directory for a user that has not logged in before. This removes the requirement for administrators to manually create home directories for new Linux platform users. Unfortunately this does not work as expected with the SAS Object Spawner as it seems that the sasauth module does not trigger PAM session handling. There is a comment in the sasauth.conf file that confirms this (with respect to the use of Centrify): "Centrify requires that pam_setcred be called. sasauth traditionally has not done this, since there's no "session" like an interactive login." The Configuration Guide for SAS 9.4 Foundation for UNIX Environments also states that “Session and password modules are not supported”. In addition to SAS 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4, this also applies to the SAS Object Spawner used by SAS Studio 4.2 with SAS Viya 3.2   Whilst this no-session would be true for SAS Metadata Server authentication, it doesn't seem correct for the SAS Object Spawner, when launching standard SAS Workspace Servers as the requesting user, since that launch will fail if the user has no home directory.   Can we get the sasauth module enhanced to trigger PAM session handling and avoid the need for workarounds?    See the blog post and comments at https://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2017/04/sas-user-linux-home-dir-auto-creation/ for a discussion of why a workaround is necessary because of this.   Thanks Paul ... View more

SAS studio is missing the Prompt feature from SAS Enterprise guide. The current work around is difficult and if we were to use SAS studio as a replacement for Enterprise Guide, we need this feature. ... 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

In SAS Studio, when you add a repository to the Git Repositories list of tracked repositories, it gives it a name that seemingly comes from the root folder the repository is stored in (the local disk folder, not the SAS Folder name). This name cannot be changed.   In my use case, all of my repos are stored in folders named the same thing - because they're in "[[project]]\src".  So I have all "src" repos, and can't change them.   It would be a better user experience if we either could relabel the repo while we add it (or afterwards), and/or if it defaulted to the SAS Folder Shortcut label if that is what it was added from.   Example: I have a SAS Folder shortcut named "MyProject" which points to //disk/MyProject/src/.  Right now, if I Open a Local Repository based on the repository that exists there, I will end up with a repository named "src".  It would be better to take the name from the SAS Folder shortcut, "MyProject", and further to allow me to relabel the repository with whatever makes sense - particularly as often Prod and Test will be identically named other than a higher level location difference. ... View more

It would be nice to have some dark or customizable themes for SAS Studio. Since it works in the browser some browser extensions can be used, but having customizable settings in the IDE would help for programmers moving from other IDE's.        ... 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

I'd like the ability to edit non .sas files in the SAS Studio editor.  e.g.   .txt .sh .php   etc...   Also, the ability to "save-as" as non .sas file would also be welcomed. ... View more

There are many fiddle websites that promote exchange of ideas and demonstrate sample code in a working environment.   There's a fiddle for that - https://fiddles.io - lists 40 or so, make a site so SAS can be added to the list.   If free to use sounds unpalatable, gate the site to SAS community accounts. Code the whole thing in SAS products because, well, ya got to "Eat your own dog food" (wiki)  Could be a wrapper app around a shackled but open SAS Studio login. ... View more

    As a SAS Studio user, I want SAS to provide an update to SAS Studio that will make the browser provide notification when a job is complete. This feature is needed to improve the user experience for the SAS Studio product.   Example: Many times we must run programs or projects which take a considerable amount of time to complete. Due to unknowns such as server and database usage, the job may take much longer or shorter. Since SAS Studio does not provide visual feedback on the task bar, the only way to check if anything has changed, is to open the Studio window and visually inspect if it is still running. Many windows applications (including web-apps) provide a blink or highlighting feature on the task bar for the application to indicate something has changed in the application or some input is needed. I would like Studio to implement this sort of 'blink' effect when a job or project run has been completed.   We are currently on 9.4m6, Studio 3.8.  ... View more

Hello,   A lot a usable space is lost on the SAS Logon Manager web page. I find it useful to reuse part of it  in order to display Important/Urgent messages to the incoming users :   for example, maintenance scheduled with outage at < day, time> , system operation scheduled at etc.   I know it's not officially permitted but I have already modified the Logon HTML code , inside the deployed hierarchy of SAS Web App Server to allow this. It worked fine altough the content update process was risky and required editing manually a file on the midtier machine ...   Wouldn't it be nice to allow this kind of feature to SAS 9.4 admins, using an update channel well-devised and somewhat easy to use (for instance, a Stored Process with text fields and some little typographical enrichments to be selected optionally like Red colored text, bold font etc.) ? This would replicate the Message Of The Day (motd) broadcasting feature known for a long time on Unix systems or SAS-wise the (little-known) NEWS system option.   To illustrate my point, I've taken the liberty to take a caption of such a Logon modified page (courtesy of SAS Institute ; )    See picture above.   Thanks for considering this idea !   Ronan   PS I've tagged this idea with SAS Studio even though it's broader actually ... View more

When switching between the CODE / LOG / RESULTS tabs in SAS Studio, it would be nice when clicking on the CODE tab (with the mouse) to always change the cursor focus to the actual editor window.   Currently after clicking the CODE tab, you need to click down in the editor window in order to start interacting with it.  The problems with this are:   If you forget to click in the editor window and press an arrow key, it changes to a different tab If you click in the editor window, whatever was previously highlighted is deselected If you forget to click in the editor window and start typing, you realize you forgot to click and need to move your hand BACK to your mouse and then back to the keyboard, ugh.     ... View more

When editing the details on an object in SAS Studio we have the ability to add 'notes' it would be nice to be able to use markdown to 'beautify' the notes. ... View more

The "Submission Status" within SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Studio in SAS 9.4 always puts the most recent entry at the end of the list.  However, if numerous jobs have been run, there may be scrolling needed to view the last entry.     The suggestion is to either have the list in date descending order even better, have list sort-able by any of the fields. ... View more

Create an "FIFO stack" of log references "in" each node.  When a new log listing for a node is created because the node's operation ran, "push" the new log on the stack and "pop" the oldest one off and discard it.  Create a way to view prior logs saved in the "stack".  Keep three logs by default, allow for more or less by providing a setting to control stack array length.   You never need to see an old log result, until you do  When you do, you just ran something and discarded the log result you wanted to review. ... View more

Can you add something like, if we add ? before the function, it opens the help doc in result viewer. The help doc should give brief description of what the function is, what are the required arguments and optional arguments and brief description of arguments. For example, If i write ?strip(), it will open the document with description of what strip does and all required and optional arguments. This can be done for procedures too, For example, ?proc import, this gives brief description of proc import, required/optional arguments/options. I have seen something like this in R-studio. ... View more

Currently in SAS Studio, under Preferences -> Editor, there is an option for font size but not the font typeface. It would be great if the user can change the font type face. The current font is a bit too thin. I prefer Consolas.   P.S. I did not find SAS Studio to be an Idea Label so I listed this under SAS Visual Analytics. Please move this if not in the right category. THanks. ... View more

SAS needs similar functionality as RMarkdown that allows for code and output to be more directly controlled.    This would make it easier to create tutorials and reference materials for students, teaching and blog posts. Jupyter Notebook offers some functionality that's similar but doesn't have the full suite of capabilities as RMarkdown.    https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/create-SAS-help-pages-and-examples/m-p/716671#M24844 ... View more

As of right now, you have to right click on the dataset on the left pane to export it. After that you have to navigate to the file to download. It would be nice as a simple button when you get an output of a dataset. ... View more