Tag: Information Maps

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Using Stored Processes to Improve Information Maps

Integrating Stored Processes into Information Maps can improve process performance as well as provide extra flexibility and complete query generation control. In order to showcase how powerful this combination is, I am presenting this topic during a SAS Talks webinar session this Thursday, December 16th. The scope of the example will

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CASE statement syntax in Information Map Studio

CASE statements are a powerful mechanism in SQL code to analysis, recode, etc data. In Information Map Studio, you can utilize this CASE statement via the Expression Editor Window. Create a new data item and click edit in the 'Expression Settings' area. From the Categories - CASE operator folder, there

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Capitalize the 1st letter - or better yet not

So you are viewing your SAS Web Report and find that all the data elements capitalizations have changed - instead of no caps or all caps, everything is prop cap (or at least PROPCASE). This is actually a default option in Information Map Studio. To turn it off, select Tools

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Parameterized date filters in Information Maps 4.2

The 4.2 version of SAS Information Map Studio provides data managers with the ability to create a dynamic filter based on dates. This is extremely valuable for things such as daily reports. Included below is an example of a new filter that is built off a date formatted data item.

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Using custom formats in Information Map Studio 4.2

The easiest option is to simply move your 9.2 format catalog to Lev1/SASApp/SASEnvironment/SASFormats/formats.sas7bcat. But you can also modify your SASv9.cfg configuration file to point to a different location: -set fmtlib1 "E:\sharedformats" -fmtsearch (fmtlib1.formats) So e:\sharedformats is a shared location for the format catalog, and formats (filename formats.sas7bcat) is the name

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