SAS code like:  IF A  < B THEN;   shall be flagged. Perhaps incorrect.   SAS Software has in some aspects a syntax that is different from other languages.  When users move between different languages, they are more likely to make mistakes. What I suggest is some kind of Very careful syntax checking mode - wherever that is possible, / Br Anders     ... View more

I suggest the creation of additional methods for hash objects which provide the capability to first "position" a pointer in the search tree (e.g. hash.pos_key()), even if the key is not found, and then find the next key in the sorting sequence (hash.next_key()). The second method should have an option to search "up" or "down", the default being "up". The first method will always return a zero, while the second method will return a non-zero return code if the beginning (while searching "down") or the end (while searching "up") of the hash has been reached. Multiple entries for a given key should be treated as one.   ... 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

I want a Button inside VA, where I can trigger events. In my case I want to send some parameters to an REST API. ... 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

https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-On-Air/The-Prediction-Profiler/ta-p/255405   Hi,           An app like the Prediction Profiler in JMP(Above) would be great in VIYA. Students would love it!                      Thank you   ... View more

I am trying to set up a not particularly complex Path Analysis in SAS Visual Analytics 8.5 (in SAS Viya 3.5).   The problem that I have is that the Node labelling seems to be truncated at small number of characters (depending on the width of the node) and the link labelling only appears for the larger nodes.   It would be very useful if these labels could appear a consistent (useful) length across nodes regardless of the node width.  At present you have hover the cursor above the link to get the size, but that's not ideal and cannot be used on pdf print outs.   Thanks  ... 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

SAS ABM exportaba la tabla con formato de campo 64 caracteres. Tras el cambio del producto(migración), SAS CPM exporta la tabla con formato de campo 260 caracteres siendo necesario aplicar una conversión para formatearla en 64 caracteres y poder manejarla más fácilmente. Eso en cifras significa que, con SAS ABM generábamos una tabla de unos 45/50Gb, mientras que con CPM partimos de una tabla de más de 200Gb que es necesario formatear, necesitando por tanto más de 150Gb que finalmente son liberados.   Adjunto el código del formateo que se le aplica en SAS Guide: se cogen todos los campos (columnas) de la tabla STL_ASSIGNMENT, se convierten a 64 caracteres y se sobreescribe la misma tabla. Tras esa transformación pasamos de una tabla de 204Gb a otra de 50Gb que es la que finalmente usamos para continuar el proceso. Es una tabla de 12 millones de filas y no es fácil trabajar con ella.       Necesitariamos una investigacion y se proporciona alguna alternativa dado que es brutal el tamaño que se genera. ... View more

I am using SAS Visual Analytics 8.5.1. It would be extremely useful to be able to customize the data tip in the following ways:  Remove/rearrange fields that added automatically because they are used in other data roles  Remove field labels Turn off data tip Format appearance of text Add plain text ... View more

It would be nice if there was a way to define custom minimum and maximum values to get a comparative parallel coordinates plot in the Cluster object of SAS Visual Statistics. This would allow the user to define the min/max values for each item in the cluster analysis rather than just accepting the default numbers generated. This could greatly help with the visual aspect of this tool. See attached PDF highlighted section in RED for example. ... View more

For now, there is a feature for autosave in SAS Visual Analytics every 5 seconds. But sometimes when I lost connection in doing a report, the autosave report cannot load. When the load autosave report pop-up shows and I click it, it showed an error pop-up with detail that said either the report doesn't exist or failed to load with no further explanation. But when it did load, the report that loaded was the autosave from 30 minutes or in my worse case, 1 hour before. It didn't load the 5-second autosave version report.   Perhaps there is a way to add configuration about autosave feature where you can edit the frequency of autosave, or an autosave that saves the report as a new file in the same folder of the report every 30 minutes with a new name. Thanks ... 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

Parsing strings into variables is a common task, and it takes a lot of coding to loop over a string, pull out the elements and convert them to variables of the right type. It would be nice to have something that works like the Parse Arg instruction in REXX, so a string could be passed with a template similar to the INPUT statement.   So I have a wish for the new year, a new Call Parse Routine. It would not fit into the general SAS syntax as a function, because the purpose is to create several new variables or assign new values to existing variables instead of returning a single value, but it should fit in implemented as a Call Routine:                   call parse (string,template);   The template is a string containing parse instructions with the same syntax as arguments to the Input statement excluding the trailing @ and @@, which wouldn't make sense in this case. A possible expansion of the syntax could be a way to specify an array name, so any array - including a temporary array - could have values assigned to all variables in one call.   ... View more

Could we add “Replace" option for global promote table in SASViya/CAS future version, which will be easy for process, and less confusion for both global and session tables with same name but not created in same time? Thanks. ... View more

Hi,   The data set is required to compile data set based hash functions in PROC FCMP. It is fine for run time compilations, but if you desire to store fcmp functions in a catalog and recompile them frequently creating actual data sets that feed into the functions/procedures is cumbersome. Furthermore, compiler does not really care about the metadata, but only if a dataset exists. The current workaround is to create dummy data sets for compilation. Needless to say not an optimal solution.   Thank you.   Current workaround: %if %sysfunc(exist(&rules_ds.)) %then %let l_temp_var_rules_ds_created=0; %else %do; /* create dummy data set for compilation*/ data &rules_ds.; run; /* set a flag to wipe out the data set*/ %let l_temp_var_rules_ds_created=1; %end; proc fcmp outlib =&outlibname.; function RULES_HASH_C (ruleid, rule_ref_name $ ) $ label="&rev. Retrieves all metadata for rule id."; length rule_name rule_state rule_action $ 32 rule_label $ 256; declare hash loansmeta_char (dataset:"&rules_ds."); rc=loansmeta_char.definedata("rule_name","rule_state", "rule_action","rule_label"); rc=loansmeta_char.definekey("ruleid"); rc=loansmeta_char.definedone(); rc=loansmeta_char.find(); if STRIP(UPCASE(rule_ref_name))='RULE_NAME' then do; if rc eq 0 then return(LOWCASE(rule_name));else return('.N'); end; else if STRIP(UPCASE(rule_ref_name))='RULE_STATE' then do; if rc eq 0 then return(rule_state);else return('.N'); end; else if STRIP(UPCASE(rule_ref_name))='RULE_ACTION' then do; if rc eq 0 then return(rule_action);else return('.N'); end; else if STRIP(UPCASE(rule_ref_name))='RULE_LABEL' then do; if rc eq 0 then return(rule_label);else return('.N'); end; else return('**** rule ref name not defined ****'); endsub; quit; ... View more

Hello!   Currently there is no way to pass hash object(s) in/out of PROC FCMP functions.Specifically, when calling functions/procedures from within a data step. This ability would help tremendously with code simplification and modularization. Current, workarounds involve passing arrays back and forth or running hash within proc fcmp and passing out strings/arrays etc.   Thank you for consideration.   Something like this would be desired:   /*hash definition or population from ds*/ function MY_HASH1() hash; length name1 name2 $ 32; /* you can define structure/populate it manually or get it from ds*/ declare hash hashtopassout (dataset:"mylookup"); rc=hashtopassout.definedata("name1","name2"); rc=hashtopassout.definekey("id"); rc=hashtopassout.definedone(); return(hashtopassout); endsub; /*hash passing in out*/ /*this could also be call procedure*/ function PASS_HASH_INOUT(newid, newname $, hashobjectname hash) hash; declare hash hashobjectname; /* define data, key or iterator should be anchored to incoming hash object hashobjectname*/ /* i.e. adding/recplacing newid & newname*/ rc=hashobjectname.replace(); return(hashobjectname); endsub; /*use in data step*/ data dout; set somedata; /* declare function from function hash*/ /*would allow modularization of all hash objects*/ declare hash hashobjectindataset(MY_HASH1()); declare hash hashobjectindataset2(MY_HASH1()); /* this could be also call procedure if this type of assignment would not work*/ hashobjectindataset2 = PASS_HASH_INOUT('23', 'sasideas', hashobjectindataset); run;                   ... View more