Are there any ways to improve readability of data stored as hex values in EG?   I prefer to use EG because I find the readability/code editor more user friendly than base SAS but the display of this data as a bunch of ascii text makes it less than ideal.   Obviously I can read in the formats, but since swapping between 32/64bit format issues are an on-going pain I'd like to know I'm looking at "a1"x not "å" as a bit of a stop gap measure to alleviate the burden and at least make it on par with Base SAS. ... View more

I'm using SAS EG 5.1 64bit.   Yesterday I was running proc genmod and looking at the ODS output of parameter estimates, today I unlock my computer and run some new models but all the ODS output is supressed. Options are all the same, I can't force the output at all, even using something like proc contents.   If I close the project and reopen, it works fine, but I don't want to be doing this all the time, anyone know of any solutions ? ... View more

I'm trying to create an AWS signature, however I can't get my Line Feeds ('0a'x) to work exactly right when I'm trying to output a textfile of the string I want to hash. I'm using a textfile to check that the string (to be stored as a macro variable) is correct and can be hashed correctly.   Due to the line feeds not being exact it's causing the hash to be different from what I'm expecting (even when hashing the string directly)   Here's what I have currently; from googling around various documents:   data _null_; file "W:\sigtest.txt" TERMSTR=lf recfm=v; signature = 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256' || '0a'x || '20150915T124500Z' || '0a'x || '20150915/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request' || '0a'x || 'ef7c45cc2b0f100ea5d65024643f5cbaf83e7ba2717108905acd605cfe17bc6b'; put signature; run; However when I check the output in notepad++ I get the following:   When I'm expecting the following:   The extra line causes the hash to be different, however if I drop: TERMSTR=lf recfm=v and use: recfm=f  I get the requisite number of lines (4), but I have trailing blanks/spaces after the hash key, which I can't get rid of.   Appreciate any help anyone has for this problem. ... View more

 Just starting out with Stored Processes, I've got my HTML and Javascript stored in an external HTML file that I'm able to call using a filename and %include statement.    However in the external HTML I still need to specify &nl; to trigger the following: %let nl = &streamDelim newline; .   Is there anyway around this? Can I just code it up purely as HTML? ... View more

Hi, I wasn't sure if this belongs here or in the SAS EG forum which is what the majority of my team uses. I'm responsible for updating a library of commonly used datasets, however I can't update a premium table due to one team member having it open which is causing a Lock. This team member has gone on holiday for a week, which means I can't update the table until she gets back, unless I reset her computer which wouldn't be ideal. I was wondering if there is a way to specify a "NOLOCK" option in the libname (similar to the passthrough option used in PROC SQL) or something similar to prevent this from occurring in the future. I've tested the "ACCESS = READONLY" libname functionality but that doesn't seem to stop a lock on the data when one member is viewing the data. Cheers for any help ... View more