I was involved with starting an in-house group at the City of Dallas called 'the Mainframe SAS Users Group' back in 1984, co-founded the local users group in 1986 that still meet each quarter called the North Texas SAS Users Group (notsug.org). I was a co-founder and past president of a regional called South Central SAS Users Group (scsug.org), and served 4 times as a SUGI section chair, 10 times as a SUGI session coordinator, and worked as a room facilitator with the SGF held in Dallas. One thing that's common at each level is the desire to share SAS with fellow SAS Users. The rest comes together. Since starting a group and being involved is volunteering, keep it fun.  ... View more

SCSUG haven't planned our 2022 event, but were looking toward our RUG fall time frame. This change from SAS without advanced warning isn't helping in RUG planning for 2022. Hopefully SAS will move their events to spring/summer, but keeping the volunteer regional user group planners informed will go a long way toward smooth operations for everyone. ... View more

With this change from Spring to Fall for SGF, this will impact the regionals since they are usually scheduled during the fall. As a regional user group planner, my group's concern will be with the level of SAS support for our groups since we would be planning for the same time frame that the SGF will be held. There are other issues that will impact how the regional groups plan their next few forums. ... View more

Cool swag. I'm always needing a charger, so I hope to see you in the Quad ... View more

Looking forward to seeing the demos and visiting the  documentation area. There's always some cool toys to collect, so I'll make sure to get there early. And it's always good to see what wares the vendors are pushing to help use SAS better. ... View more

Hopefully a data needs assessment will help to determine what data is needed for SAS and they can do a shadow data lake closer to the users. If they are doing a lot of reading of operational data, maybe they should do scheduled pulls. Sounds like a fun project. ... View more

Solution 2 is your best option and easiest to maintain going forward. Set security at the highest folder, and as new data is added it carries the rights within the folders ... View more

What @KirkBresmer said. You can still do the macro var, but it is the same value as order_quantity ... View more

This is a fuzzy! Check out Kirk Lafler's paper at http://www.scsug.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Fuzzy-Matching-Programming-Techniques-Using-SAS-Software-SCSUG-2017.pdf ... View more

You also can use footnotes ... View more

I'm room facilitator in d164 so I will be there for a few of these great presentations. ... View more

Thanks. So, what version control/change management tools does SAS use in-house? Asking as a CSQA and SAS user. I'm retired, but I installed PVCS Version Manager for our non-mainframe developers ... View more