I'm not familiar with SAS BI Dashboard, but there is some how-to docs in the SAS Knowledge Base (and other docs on the web) that could point you in the right direction. Here is a sample at http://support.sas.com/kb/34/704.html (applies to BI Dashboard 4.2). Reading the instructions, it appears that you need to have libraries defined (e.g. the SASHELP library used in the example must be defined first). That would be consistent with how SAS functions in all of their other products. Here also is a link to their BI Dashboard Guide (v. 4.3) http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bidbrdug/63081/PDF/default/bidbrdug.pdf ... View more

To expand on what Tom is saying, the default length of a numeric variable is 8 bytes (not to be confused with 8 digits or 8 characters). The largest integer that SAS can store in a numeric variable with the default length of 8 (bytes) is 9,007,199,254,740,992. Formats are just a way for SAS to display the stored numeric variable. ... View more

Linking in Enterprise Guide does not explictly control the order that tasks are performed. You can explicitly specify the order of tasks by using "ordered lists". From the EG 4.3 Help documentation (sorry about the highlighting): Creating an ordered list of tasks You can create a list of tasks and programs in the current project that can be run in the order that you choose. You can select objects from more than one process flow. In this way, you can group objects without changing their positions in process flows or their relationships to other objects. Each ordered list is available from the recently viewed items button at the top left of the workspace and in the project tree.  To create an ordered list of tasks and programs  Select File then New Ordered List.  In the Ordered List window, click Add to display the tasks and programs that are in the current project. Select one or more items and click OK to add them to the ordered list.  To change the position of an item in the list order, select the item in the Ordered List window and click Up or Down.  To remove an item from the list, select the item and click Remove.  When the list is complete, click Run to run the tasks and programs in the list, or click Save to save the list.  ... View more

The percentw.d informat instructs SAS to read data containing percentages as numeric. Refer to https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000204437.htm The percentw.d format does the opposite, it writes numeric data as percentages. Refer to https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000205182.htm ... View more