In EG, when you double click on a task (e.g., a Query Builder), you are provided a view with four tabs: Input Data, Code, Log, Output Data.  The Input Data and Output Data tabs have dropdown menus if there are more than one datasets input/output by the task.  Programs in the flow, however, leave out the Input Data tab and only show the last three.  Often, when I am writing my programs I end up flipping back and forth between my input sets and the program, which without this tab can be annoying. I think adding this tab could be accomplished in one of two ways:   Show datasets which are linked to the program in question (using the Link [Dataset] To... context menu or by dragging an link arrow) Scanning and parsing the program for datasets which are being referenced in the program. ... View more

I would like to see query builders have an option to perform a SELECT * statement.  For instance, I don't believe the following is possible using a query builder:   PROC SQL;   CREATE TABLE WORK.TMP AS   SELECT t1.*, MAX(t1.Age) AS Max_Age   FROM SASHELP.CLASS t1   GROUP BY t1.Sex; QUIT;   Currently when you right click on a table in the left hand pane and choose "Select All Columns" it inserts each column separately and ends up building the following code:   PROC SQL;    CREATE TABLE WORK.TMP AS    SELECT t1.Name,           t1.Sex,           t1.Age,           t1.Height,           t1.Weight,           /* Max_Age */             (MAX(t1.Age)) AS Max_Age       FROM SASHELP.CLASS t1       GROUP BY t1.Sex; QUIT;   I often have very long process flows with several query builders that are bringing all columns forward with them.  If I add a new column to a table at the beginning of the flow, I then have to open each subsequent query builder and add the column.  Having a special "select all" row in the select data tab of the query builder would alleviate this issue. ... View more

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Allow Conditional Processing to have access to the dates associated with items linked up to and away from the target object.  Dates of code blocks, SAS datasets or tasks including: last modified (especially) created last accessed date project saved and today's date etc. ... View more

Ideas: Change the algorithm so that the placement of the icons is more compact, vertically. Allow different auto arrange algorithms to exist and to be chosen from a list. Add option to manually added links that "lock" the relative position of those objects which are linked.  By "lock" I mean that an Auto-Arrange algorithm will not be given "privilege" to change the relative positions of the objects.  Auto Arrange might be allowed to move the objects as a collection. Allow individual process flows to have settings enabling or disabling Auto Arrange or default to the setting in the user's options. ... View more

As a programmer, I can often be more productive using a 3rd party text editor like UltraEdit.    It would be great to be able edit programs in an external editor with the ability to edit multiple programs at the same time.    Ideally, I am looking for  the same type of functionality that exists in the program WinSCP for editing files. ... View more

As a heavy macro programmer, it would be very helpful if macro variable references had their own syntax highlighting rules.   Currently macro variable references are considered macro text within a macro definition, and I think they are considered normal text outside of a macro definition. ... View more

Internally, we would like to show year over year growth of 20% with 25% being a stretch goal. Standard visuals only support one target for a targeted bar chart. Also we are unable to show the data values for this target within the report, only within the data tip values.   Here is my current solution build using the custom graph application:     We would like to see the high/low target range shading similar to below:   This was built with the customer builder as well, but it does not look the best in the standard data styling skin consistent with the rest of our reporting.   -shawn ... View more

The data step debugger are a practical tool for solving problems in advanced data step programs. Please make this functionality available when using Workspace Server programming clients such as Enterprise Guide and Data Integration Studio. ... View more

We very commonly use macro variables to automate import, export, and other SAS code in PC-SAS.  In EG, there are circumstances in which it is easier to use Tasks, rather than code ... or would be if the functionality existed to pass prompt/macro variable values into the Task.  For example, you cannot (as far as we have been able to determine) pass a list of filenames in macro variables into the upload task.  Instead, the file list must be manually edited each time it is changed. ... View more

32 characters is rather short these days, especially when dealing with external (DBMS, excel, etc) data. Why not allow longer variable names? and labels? and likewise for data members? The data structure would not be affected, just the metadata. The change from 8 to 32 (40 to 256 for labels) characters took place for version 7 almost 20 years ago; time for a new enhancement.   Of course, longer text strings in SAS variables (200 to 32k en V7) and macro variables (no change in V7 iirc) would be nice too, but the metadata upgrade should be both easier and more immediately useful. ... View more

Currently unable to move import data steps between process flows (like queries or tables etc). Have to create the Import step anew and reference it in a flow that was moved from elsewhere. ... View more

1. Merge 'Normal View' and 'Page View' functionality so text can be edited and 'Modify Report' accessed from a page view of the report. 2. Improve 'Edit Report Contents' functionality      - Allow 'Edit Report Contents' window to be resized vertically rather than only horizontally.      - Enable 'Edit Report Contents' 'Select SAS items' to be ordered alphabetically.      - Prevent automatic realignment of items (frequently pushes a column of items into a further column) 3. Allow manual control for setting image dpi for EG pdf export (even changing dpi under global results pdf option 'Advanced Additional Options'  gets overridden by a default setting of lower quality). 4. Allow definition of a custom palette to be accessed throughout a project (currently have to define each colour within individual item/function/report). 5. Allow access to modification of tables/graphs through the Custom Report interface. 6. For inserted text, combine 'Properties' 'Text Properties' editing options for border and background with double-click 'Edit Text' function. ... View more

In Exploration mode, when creating a bar chart, the legend is sorted alphabetically, which may not be the same order that the bars are displayed.  It would be nice if the order of the legend and the display could be synced up.  In Report mode, the legend is in the same order as the bars are displayed.  But when I'm exporting an Exploration as a Report, the only way to overcome this limitation (and keep calculated items) is to create a new bar chart. ... View more

It would be nice if you could combine Containers in VA to create some more dynamic reporting.  For instance you could put a horizonal container inside of a stack container allowing the user to flip through pairs of visuals together.  This gives you more control over content presentation within a single sheet. ... View more

When I have multiple sections in my report the user has to select the department on every section. They sometimes forget this and spend time looking at section two that contains information from another department.   I can't always use linking between sections. Fx. when first section contains a filter on year and the second section shows data from all years.   Therefore I would like to have the opportunity to make af filter prompt on reportlevel. ... View more

I would like to be able to display our data in a Radar Chart i VA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_chart ... View more

When I create a report in SAS VA 6.3 with information about telephone calls and I want to put an extra drop down list next to the drop down list "Selecteer categorie" I cannot put the new drop down list next to "selecteer categorie" immediately (see figure 1). I first have to put it on top of the page, see figure 2 (create a new line above "selecteer categorie" or put it somewhere below selecteer categorie) and then I can add it next to "selecteer categorie" (see figure 3)   figure 1:   figure 2: Figure 3:   So my idea for further development is to create something that allows us to put new drop down lists next to existing one's immediately (see figure 1) ... View more

In SAS VA 6.3. category variables in treemaps which contain many characters show an empty line in treemaps. Instead of using substrings to limit the number of characters in advance it might be valuable to create an option which can select a certain amount of characters of the variable (for example:"1533 Maligne neoplasma colon sigmoideum" becomes "1533 Maligne neoplasma..." instead of "...") . Hence we don't have to prepare the data with substrings every time we use variables which contain a high number of characters   ... View more