Thanks @Sam_SAS that looks like it would do the trick. As with several other issues, I'm going to have to look forward to upgrading to M6 and 7.5. ... View more

Thanks @Madelyn_SAS (and @Sam_SAS ) for your responses. I'll look forward to this for the future! ... View more

@SASKiwi An upgrade to 8.2 is planned as part of an overall upgrade of our environment, from M5 to M6. This is primarily to upgrade VA to 7.5 before Flash finally goes out of support. But we have a freeze on all system changes at the moment so it's not going to happen until that is lifted. And, in terms of the client packages, that also won't happen until people are back to working in the office, or are at least able to go to an office. This is because of the size of the deployed package: policy is only to allow this except on a wired ethernet connection. I'm certainly interested in what EG 8.2 is like. It looks like there will be some functionality that my users will like. In particular, there was a (minor!) outcry when a previous upgrade removed the ability to have multiple items open in tiled windows: one outspoken user described it as a "car-crash of a version"! Can't say I agreed with him, but I can understand that a lot of experienced users will like having this ability again. I will be doing a lot more reading up on 8.2 before we finally upgrade because I think users will need to be made aware of the way in which it differs from 7.15. Thanks for your thoughts on this. ... View more

Not really seeing any noticeable slowness opening projects from a shared drive. ... View more

That's interesting what you say about the hops being the source of the latency, Kurt. It makes sense given that, as you say, the amount of data being uploaded in a piece of code is pretty small. I have advised users to turn off opening data and output on task completion, and also opening data when it's added to a project.   Being basically a sysadmin, and in SAS terms a platform admin, I don't do a lot of developing myself - the project I was describing is one instance, where I'm actually monitoring and trying to forecast disk usage on a completely separate system. But we have a considerable number of analysts, mainly statisticians, economists and data scientists, for whom EG is their main method of working in SAS. It's these people who I've been trying to advise on the way they work. It's mostly interactive: there's very little batch running. ... View more

Some interesting points here. I'm not sure how the location that the project is saved would affect its performance. I'm opening it on my laptop (so I can see that there might be a performance issue in actually doing this) but once it's open, it's running from my laptop, wherever it has been saved (or am I wrong about that?)   Unfortunately, connecting into remote desktops isn't an option for us, as desirable as it might be!   Thanks for your advice. ... View more

By PROC IMPORT, I mean the code. I originally started off with an import task in the project but converted that to straight code. In fact, it's a modification of the data step code generated by the EFI which I've used rather than PROC IMPORT itself. The file itself is in a shared drive on our network, so there shouldn't be any extra latency in importing it from there, as it's on the same subnet as our compute server. Some useful/interesting comments from @Kurt_Bremser and @SASKiwi below. ... View more

Thanks @ChrisHemedinger, always useful to get information from the horse's mouth (not that I'm suggesting...)!   There are a few good things to try here, and I definitely have a few objects with ActiveX output so I'll try changing these to PNG. Unfortunately, being still with 7.15, HTML5 and SVG don't appear to be options. We have a freeze on system changes at the moment but when things get back closer to normal we are planning an upgrade to M6, mainly to escape Flash in VA 7.4, but that will also include the latest version of EG, I would imagine. Having briefly skimmed through a "what's new" posting here, I'm quite excited by that.   Interestingly, it's not just output which is the problem. My first step is an import of a CSV, using PROC IMPORT in code from a shared drive. This is also very slow to get going. It sits for a minute or two with the message "preparing the server..." in the Task Status. ... View more

The projects are stored in various places, mainly shared drives, but they are opened and run in Enterprise Guide on users' laptops. We don't have a way for users to work directly off the server. ... View more

Thanks Kurt. Obvious really! ... View more