SAS released Hot Fix A53007 for Enterprise Guide 4.22 on June 29, 2010. This Hot Fix applies to 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. The Hot Fix address two issues, including: Issue 38357 – SAS stored process might fail to run when the language is set to Norwegian Issue 40130 – Errors might occur [...]
I had been using SAS Enterprise Guide 4.22 for months without any crashes, but in May I installed the SAS Hot Fix A53005 primarily because it was available. After installation of the Hot Fix, whenever I attempted to run the Create Format task, even in a brand new project, I received the following error: SAS [...]
Even though we have Maintenance Release 2 installed on our SAS clients, we will still get undo problems in Excel. Here is one more step that needs to be performed: The issue described in SAS Note 36601: Cannot undo changes in Microsoft Excel when the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office is installed can be fixed [...]
from Chris Hemendinger, senior software manager in SAS R&D and author of The SAS Dummy Supported Versions and Combinations: You can use EG 4.1 with local SAS 9.2 (no metadata server). Everything local on your Windows machine; it should just work. You can have both EG 4.1 and EG 4.2 on your local machine, along [...]
A strong point of SAS Enterprise Guide is that it interacts seamlessly with many data types using the Microsoft Jet Engine (Excel .xls, Access .mdb, dBase .dbf, Lotus.wk?, Paradox .db, and text files .txt .csv etc). To provide even more flexibility, there are also a few different ways in Enterprise Guide to output data to [...]
I was one of the unfortunate ones who was unable to attend the SAS Global Forum in Seattle last week. Thanks to discussion forums, blogs, and Twitter, I was able to keep up with a lot that was going on. I was particularly interested in some of the new features that will be available in [...]
SAS recently released Hotfix 41EG14 for Enterprise Guide 4.1. The hotfix resolves issues identified in: Problem Note 39149: The SAS Enterprise Guide editor’s width of caret position panel within the status bar does not accommodate for large row and column number schemes Problem Note 38003: Unable to edit existing parameter in SAS® Enterprise Guide®
from support.sas.com… The following considerations apply to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 customers who have used SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 or earlier releases. Support for SAS Enterprise Guide repositories has been discontinued; all metadata must be stored in a SAS Metadata Repository. Servers are no longer administered through SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer, and must now be [...]
You probably have many SAS data sets that you regularly work with where numbers are stored as text for formatting purposes. A great example is the social security number, and many other customer, product, or invoice numbers are formatted similarly. They frequently utilize leading zeros in their storage and display. You probably also frequently receive [...]
I attended SAS Programming 3: Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies training recently at the SAS’ Austin Training Center. Programming 3 demonstrates many ways to make your SAS code and programs more efficient, but I also picked up one tidbit that makes coding and testing even easier. When using the enhanced editor, to create comments in your [...]
