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ColmSmyth · ‎04-18-2018

Agreed.....oddly I have tried your code and the e8601dt16. format is saying not valid yet I see it in the list of formats for SAS EG...VARIABLEX is character so the input should work

ColmSmyth · ‎04-18-2018

Hi there Thanks for your reply, I was only representing the number date in brackets etc, but think I mixed them up anyway. Not to worry though as per my reply below to Kurt what I want is not possible. Thanks colm

ColmSmyth · ‎04-18-2018

Hi Kurt Yes, I did mix those up but yes as expected I did not think this is possible. Ultimately here my goal is to try and compare dates where one may have a time and another may not. If i split per your suggestion and then remake as a datetime value for example SAS will have 00:00:00 etc into it which gets considered in any equation as midnight. I have other ways around this though but thank you for your suggestion. It would be great however if SAS came up with a format for a date that could understand dates and datetimes in one field Thanks Colm

ColmSmyth · ‎04-18-2018

Hi all I am fairly sure this is not possible but I want to know if I can have one numeric date variable that has a mixed values some of just dates and other with date and times. For example, I have VARIABLEX which is character with values such as 2017-09-27 (1822089600) and 2017-10-12T08:35 (21093) where the number in the brackets is the numeric values of each date. Can I make a new numeric variable which these values formatted ? Thanks Colm

ColmSmyth · ‎04-07-2017

Hey again Ok...some sucess....I have it now satating in the log that it has assigned the libname test which is perfect and what I wanted...however if I refresh the SASApp server tree there is no test libname....any ideas ? Thanks Colm

ColmSmyth · ‎04-07-2017

Sadly this does not work either

ColmSmyth · ‎04-06-2017

Hello I have what I hope is a really simple enterprise guide issue for the experts. I am very new to programming prompt windows in EG so I may not fully understand your responses so stick with me. I have created a simple prompt which is called Project_Prompt and there are 3 static values that the user will be presented with when the stored process runs. When the stored process runs a window pops up with a pompt for the user to select a project, this value as I understand it is stored in &Project_Prompt and lets say the unformatted project number is A12345 I have added SAS Code into the prompt area that is basically macro code that says: %if &project_code='A1234' %then %do: libname source "my daya"; %end; However while this code runs and there is no error in the log there is no new libname assigned. If i remove the macro code and just leave the libname assignment it works. Am I referencing the prompt incorrectly ? Thanks Colm

ColmSmyth · ‎05-01-2012

Thanks everyone for your opinion and advice, let me say though this is purely a topic i started with the intention of info gathering on the subject, I absolutely do not need to do this, nor probably allowed anyway in production. But I wanted to see what was possible, and it looks like to a degree it is, even better would be a built in feature of SAS itself to actual obscure un-obscure the code via password prompt, but would be run-able either way. Thanks everyone C.

ColmSmyth · ‎04-30-2012

Hi Jason, Great stuff....tried this out and works quite well, reversing did not quite bring back all the code identically especially for commented portions of the source code. Now, further to my original post, my ideal situation is that write code, its validated, stored somewhere safe, then its obfuscated, and that obfuscated program would be recognized by SAS and would be run-able. However I dont think SAS can do this other than with PWENCODE, i.e it knows what that scrambled code is as its a built in function etc. Thoughts ? EDIT: In fact if SAS could use the Oracle dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.DESDecrypt feature you could obfuscate the entire program, then read in the scrambled program and decrypt it on the fly to a self deleting temporary file for example which is run during the process...if that makes sense

ColmSmyth · ‎04-19-2012

Hi all, As the original OP of the question Renne on Twitter (@colmsmyth) please let me clarify more what I meant. This is kind of for IP protection but also just to be a bit fancy really. Is there a way that you could open a *.sas program and the code is already garbled or obfuscated etc, this would have been done via a saved macro or something like that. However, I would then also want the ability to de-scramble it again by calling a save macro perhaps from saved shortcut button on the tool bar, perhaps prompting for a password before the de-scrambling happens. So you know when you get a file in a particular format and you try to open it with the wrong application, it opens but it looks like webdings basically....thats kinda what i want Cheers

ColmSmyth · ‎11-07-2011

Hey everyone, Is there or will there ever be the ability for SAS to connect to SFTP without the need to installing back end software such as putty and with the need for keychains. Seems reasonable that all you should need is the below : filename outfile sftp '/home/myfile.DAT' host="host.com" user="bigdaddy" passwd="Something"; data _null_; file outfile; do i=1 to 10; put i=; end; run; Problem seems to be that there is no Password options, surely if this feature was added there would then be a way for this to work ? However this right now does not help me....at the moment my company seem to have coreftplite setup on our sas server, would anyone have any instructions or code to allow me to connect to an SFTP and take down files. I also want to do all this interactively, not in batch. Kind Regards Colm

ColmSmyth · ‎05-17-2011

Could you please let me know how you connected to an SFTP, i tried the documentation at the paths provided and they do not work for me. I dont seem to be able to connect as there is no password option in SAS to do it. basically all i want to do is connect to an SFTP, i have username and password for this and IP address, then tell sas where to look and then use a command to grab a file... initially though just to connect is my issue. Hope you can help

ColmSmyth · ‎05-17-2011

It strange then as im running Base now and i get the error on 64...ohh well perhaps some installations are different ? At any rate I have work around now so its ok. Cheers

ColmSmyth · ‎05-17-2011

Thanks Chris...I have just moved my clear statements to after each out file so it clears as it goes.

ColmSmyth · ‎05-16-2011

Hi all, Is there a max number of connection libnames in SAS 9.2, I have code that outputs reports to many seperate XLS connections using libname. Some info on google about it regarding limit of 65 connections but nothing official from SAS. The error I get is: ERROR: Connect: Unspecified error If will not go away unless i clear a a libname to free up the connection space. Thanks Colm

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