I think some of the confusion is that SAS/IML Studio has two purposes. Some people use it for point-and-click exploratory data analysis. Others use it as a development environment (IDE) for writing IMLPlus programs. If you want to use SAS/IML Studio as a replacement for SAS/INSIGHT, put your data in a permanent libref and open the data set in SAS/IML Studio. If you want to use SAS/IML Studio as a development environment for creating and debugging IMLPlus programs, open an IMLPlus Workspace and start programming. You can create IMLPlus programs AND ALSO use all the items on the Graph and Analyses windows to explore data sets that the program creates, whether they are created in WORK or in a permanent libref. The SAS Wokspace is provided as a convenience for the SAS/IML programmer who needs to integrate his program into a larger SAS workflow. They need to write the analysis in classic PROC IML, use macro variables, and so forth. A SAS Workspace does not support IMLPlus; it only executes classic SAS statements and procedures. The items on the Analysis menu call an IMLPlus programs. That is why the Analysis menu is disabled when you are in a SAS workspace, but available when you are in an IMLPlus Workspace. So to use the Analysis menu, be sure to open the data in an IMLPlus Workspace.
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