We routinely use Patrick's approach for transferring files from the mainframe to the PC.  It is particularly helpful for us, as the PC people do not have mainframe accounts.  The program on the mainframe creates the output product and FTPs it to an FTP server that we have mutual access to.  The PC then connects to the same FTP server and moves the data to the PC world for further processing.  We do the same thing in our *nix environments.  The various batch jobs are run with the task scheduling tools that come with the different hosts.  The last step includes an e-mail to me so I know if everything worked OK. Doc Muhlbaier Duke ... View more

you've already asked that question in two other forums.  Please try to keep the tread all in one place. ... View more

Yes.  and one thing that I neglected earlier.  We often don't know the target number of sites, let alone the actual number, when we are doing the sample size estimates; it is one of the things that is negotiated in the budget. ... View more

When designing studies for Pharma, we typically do not include the site in the design.  There are several reasons for this 1) the randomization should address the inherent skill levels of the surgical teams 2) most sites are too small for any one site to have a major impact. 3) it is quite rare for the sites to have even close to the same sample sizes and sponsors don't want to cut off the high enrollers. That said, we often test for regional effects as a post hock test to understand some variability there.  It is more of a data quality check.  We have rarely found differences in relative outcome, but sometimes found differences in the underlying disease burden of those randomized. Doc Muhlbaier Duke Clinical Research Institute . ... View more

The task scheduler in both XP and Windows 7 Pro include the capability to run a task when the user is logged off.  The syntax is different by it is just a check box about 'run only when user is logged on'. ... View more

Have you tried CHREF=(red green) ?  That's the format other procedures use for multiple colors. ... View more

It appears you are running out of memory because you are asking SQL to do a Cartesian product. ... View more

with just three variable, the easiest thing might be to compute the expected probabilities for both models in a DATA step.  It's a bit brute force, but is more bulletproof than using the ODS output datasets in IML. ... View more

I get that message when I have two instances of SAS open at once (or one EGuide and one SAS).  The second one in loses. ... View more

Tarun, Reeza's approach won't work with the point-n-click interface to the EGuide export file task.  It would only work with hard-coding for exporting SAS datasets. I've never been able to do it, but would love to know how.  I've also tried to include the macro value in the result name to no success.  It may be an item for a SAS Ballot. Doc Muhlbaier Duke ... View more