As an outsider, I have no idea on how discussions and positioning from SAS side towards Gartner works.   SAS investment in DI Studio was due to that fact they could cash in on the general BI and data warehouse era in the late 90s and 2000s. Now that market has transformed, and SAS hasn't been able (wanted to?) follow and have focused on in-memory processing and different analytical use cases. Even if product managers say that data management/integration is a big focus, I think product development tells another story. Viya has been around for more than ten years and still the data management offering is weaker than 9.4. The focus now I think is to keep existing DI Server customer and make them migrate to Viya, but I see no actual attempts to be a player on the data integration/data engineering market.   ... View more

The extension XPT has no fixed meaning.  So it MIGHT be a file in the SAS V5 Transport format that can be read with the XPORT library engine.  But it might be a file created with PROC CPORT that would require using PROC CIMPORT to read.  Or it might be a SAS V7/8/9 Transport file create by the %LOC2XPT() macro in which case you would need to use the %XPT2LOC() macro to read it.   I don't use JMP, but perhaps the information that it can be imported by JMP would tell someone that is familiar with JMP what type of file it is.  ... View more