I allowed myself to spend a moment in possible improvements for documentation.sas.com. It was not easy, because it is already working really well. In the end, I came up with 3 main ideas which could have most impact in the relationship between SAS expertise/best practices and the SAS users. I will propose them separately, to let them evaluated also separately.   One of them is reflected in: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SASware-Ballot-Ideas/Local-mirror-of-documentation-sas-com/idi-p/691505   The next one would be the one in the subject: the capability to subscribe to SAS documentation updates.   Prelude: I think the initiative to post hotfixes in the communities is really helpful, and one can subscribe to those, or to updates in the SAS Library, or other communities. I believe those subscriptions have increased exponentially. It definitely helps me to be more productive.   Suggestion: I am not sure of the engine behind documentation.sas.com, and its potential for customization, but I think it would be huge improvement to have similar capabilities. If one has the option to subscribe to individual subscriptions on what is being added, or updated pages/documents.   Cases:  - What’s New in SAS 9.4 Guide to Software Updates can help to understand the updates and minimize iterations with the Tech Support folks, as it is really clear. It would reduce also all sort of unnecessary surprises.   - Subscriptions could be at a document level, page level, industry, product, etc. Of course, I guess the most easy to implement would be document and page, as the others might need a certain intelligence or map.   - If one is subscribed to a document or a page, it would be useful to receive updates when a page/document is updated, or a related page is added in the scope. Furthermore, as there are documents/pages based on versions, it would be nice if the subscription could apply for an independent version and optionally for all of them.   - Perhaps some would be interested as well in the subscriptions to the Knowledge Base resources, such as Notes and Samples  https://support.sas.com/en/knowledge-base.html They have the potential to trigger wonderful ideas.   Thank you for your attention, looking forward for your thoughts! @SimonMcGrother , I am not sure if this could be something of your interest. Let me tag you just in case it might be.   In any case I imagine our community managers will address the engagements.   Ps. I will add in a moment the last idea. ... View more

I saw a huge improvement in the SAS documentation, and the Libraries here in the Communities. Massive kudos and thanks to everyone involved.   Now with the SAS partnership with Microsoft:   Would it be possible to create a portal focused on this partnership? The content can be where it already is, the point would be offering a view/portal where the resources can be found and prioritized in one go. As I realize it is not being obvious to many, I thought it could be useful.   The idea would be to collect those amazing resources and create subsets by matter of interest:   - SAS Administrator/Architect: architecture, requirements, deployment, quick starts, kubernetes, containers etc - Programming/Analytics: where some topics might be linked to above, i.e DevOps, SAS Model Manager, etc - At the top, a handful of resources, the most important ones as main guidelines; then below the full list, which are important, but depend on area of interest.   I.e, my personal top 4 / starting point are:   Important Performance Considerations When Moving SAS® to a Public Cloud (M. Crevar, update APR-2020): https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2020/4312-2020.pdf (Video available as well)   Best Practices for Using Microsoft Azure with SAS® (M. Crevar, update AUG-2020): https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Best-Practices-for-Using-Microsoft-Azure-with-SAS/td-p/676833   Azure Storage for SAS Architects (E. Riva). Part 1 (update FEB-2020): https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Azure-Storage-for-SAS-Architects/ta-p/681162 Part2 (update SEP-2020): https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Azure-Storage-for-SAS-Architects-Do-You-Want-to-Share/ta-p/687864   Perhaps a single SAS Communities Library article would do for starters, but with all the content being shared, it might not be enough.   ... View more

This post from @Kurt_Bremser triggered an idea I had for a while but I keep forgetting to share it. https://communities.sas.com/t5/Community-Matters/documentation-sas-com-inoperable/m-p/691501#M4399   It is not very often, although sometimes documentation.sas.com is offline or has hiccups. It is however often than documentation.sas.com might be blocked in certain scenarios, and it is often that this resource is critical in certain scenarios.   Would it be possible to create a procedure to generate a local mirror of documentation.sas.com?    - On one side, this was considered in the past, as SASWebDoc is an app to have documentation of SAS Base locally available. So the idea is not really new.   - On other side, I assume the collection of documentation.sas.com can be quite large and it has periodic updates. This is something to consider.   My idea is that it would be interesting to have the following functionality:   - Enable subsets of documentation.sas.com, based on products, solutions, etc - Have an updated list of those subsets, their sizes and the last update date - A procedure that would allow to create a mirror of selected updates, and to update them (only the diffs) per request   What do you think of this idea? Feasible? Other requirements to add? ... View more

This suggested NOTE would be issued when, in a DATA step, a variable is retained which is present in an incoming dataset; since such variables are automatically retained, this points to a mistake on the part of the coder who wants to create a new variable, and who will be surprised that "the RETAIN does not work" because the retained value is always overwritten by the next observation that is read. Something like NOTE: Variable XXX is read from dataset YYY and therefore automatically retained. ... View more

There currently is not a way to bulk load user IDs into a custom group in SAS Viya.  We use Active Directory (LDAP) groups to get access to the SAS Viya system, but use custom groups to control access to specific reports.    However, other than selecting them one at a time in the SAS Environment Manager GUI or doing one line at a time using the sas-admin add-member CLI tool is not the most efficient way to do this.  This is especially true in our environment where we could have 1000+ users that need to be added to one of the custom groups.  Having the functionality to be able to import a list of user IDs would be a HUGE help in this process! ... 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

We would like to add automatic warning or comment about confidential data to the exported VA data. For, example exported data in Excel format could have additional sheet with information how user is allowed to use the data. ... View more

When you browse to where you want to go, it’s expanded. When you add a new file via an ODS or other statement or you save a program, after you’ve done so it reverts back to being collapsed. This can become encumbering particularly during development so if there is/was an option to keep this expanded, that would be great.   ... 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

There appears to be no way to turn off the option to "Schedule as a Job" in SAS Studio V.  Our scheduling responsibilities are handled by our SAS Administrators, but there is a rule for this feature. ... View more

Provide one warning when a string longer than 28 characters is given as input to a sheet_name or sheet_label option.  Suggestion:   WARNING: Sheet tab name(s) over 28 characters long will be truncated.   Related Forum posting: "Excel sheet name length limit" ... View more

It would be nice to be able to save the 'Manage Columns' in various administration tables used in SAS Environment Manager such as the Session view.   It is quite annoying to have to add the needed columns every time I open the management table. ... View more

I'd like a check box or some type of toggle option in the slider object itself that allows end users to select "missing values."   I've noticed when I use slider filters, like for a date filter, if the row of data has date = NULL, then the slider actually filters those out.  I'd like the option to use the slider for dates or other measures, while still allowing "missing values" to be shown if a user chooses to.   In addition to this, on the designer side, it would be nice to have the option to show or hide this toggle option to an end user.  That way if I don't want the missings to be selected by an end user at all, I can hide that option from the user entirely. ... View more

It would be nice to be able to set a default tab layout for SAS Studio V.  Every time I run a new program, I need to reset to the lay out to 'Single'.  It would be nice if this can be set in the properties. ... View more

You can currently use the dataset option RENAME= to change the NAME used for a variable. It would increase flexibility if you could also change other attributes of the variables, such as the FORMAT, INFORMAT or LABEL using a similar syntax.  To avoid conflict with the existing LABEL= option for setting the member name and to follow a similar naming convention as the RENAME= option we might call these options REFORMAT=, REINFORMAT= and RELABEL=.  It should be possible to do it one both input and output dataset references.   Example: data want; set sashelp.class (reformat=(age=5.2)); run; Here is problem that made me think of this.  I was able to attach formats to variables being created with PROC TRANSPOSE by adding a FORMAT statement, but it generated WARNINGs in the log. 88 %let fmtlist=x xfmt. z zfmt.; 88 proc transpose data=have out=want(drop=_name_) ; 89 by id formset ; 90 id var_name; 91 idlabel var_label; 92 var var_value; 93 format &fmtlist; WARNING: Variable X not found in data set WORK.HAVE. WARNING: Variable Z not found in data set WORK.HAVE. 94 run; NOTE: There were 12 observations read from the data set WORK.HAVE. NOTE: The data set WORK.WANT has 4 observations and 5 variables. ... View more

With an option to enable/disable.  Perhaps the same functionality for other enhanced editors. ... View more

On the up coming version of SAS EG, can we put back the feature to have SAS Developers the option to create new tab or replace results. ... View more

I've recently started using VA 7.5 from VA 7.3 and noticed it doesn't let me use the same name for different objects.  This isn't an issue for most objects as the title is what is visible to an end user, but for containers, the name is the text that shows on the "tab" for the container.  I'd like the tab text to be whatever I want, even if its a duplicate name from another container/object.     This is already possible with Prompts containers, where the Name of the prompt container is a separate field than the Prompt container text.  I want this same flexibility for all containers so the tab text in a container (for me specifically a stack container) can be duplicated, even though the name of the object needs to be unique.   Reason: with the capability to put containers in containers, I routinely name an outer container something higher level, with inner containers being refined to save on horizontal real estate and reduce redundancy.  I could provide the same breakdowns such as "claims by model" within two different outer containers that segment the data by continent for example.  With the current naming limitation, I need to name the internal containers differently even though they are for the same breakdown, just of two different input data sets. ... View more

An option should be available to keep the 'Table' format by default when it loads instead of Tiles format in SAS Viya Model Builder hoempage. This helps in quicker Models loading when the page opens. ... View more