Dear SAS Comunity,    I see lot of technical papers around for wide variety of topics in SAS. All of them are presented by techies during their SAS User Group Communities conferences.     I would like to know, What are the different SAS User Groups exists? Does SAS officially organize these conferences periodically ?  Who is eligible to submit papers? As a SAS learner, How can I easily find out high quality SAS papers that will speed up my learning.    I know SUGI and MWSUG till now. Provide me as much informatin as you can. Do you have any ratings given to these papers based on their content as Beginner, Advanced, Expert etc.   ... View more

Hi SAS Expert Team,    I have a query reading the large VB file in Mainframes. File specs are below.    File length = 11504 File Type = VB (Variable block) Contains Records with variable length.  Example : If record 1 have the length of 765, then the rest of the characters in the observation 1 are null values. At position, 766 there will be CRLF that will specify the end of the observation.    All the obseravations start with the date in the format 'YYYYMMDD' format.    Many instances, thre is a need to filter data on basis of  > DATE in the first 8 characters and  > customer-id placed randomly in the observation   > Invoice Number placed at the fixed position of 65.    How should I write a DATA step to read a Mainframe VB file and create sub-file based on the criteria.    Regards, Kumar.   ... View more

Dear SAS Team,    What are the different ways of getting discount vochurs for SAS certification as an Independent learner.   Besides this,           My employer is a big SAS user and has e-learning license as well for employees. Does employers get any discount vochures for their employees. How to know the point of contact for this.. ... View more

Hi All,  I have started learning Base SAS recently and the pace is good so far.  Please recommend me few sites where I can practice real time case studies on various concepts I learn in Base SAS.     ... View more