In reply to Paul Homes.

The Restricted Options feature is no longer a unique feature of SAS Unix; it is officially available for SAS Windows too starting with version 9.3 (but it already works with 9.2 ;-)

See page 7 :
http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikfdtnwx6cg/64433/PDF/default/config.pdf

The only "restriction" that still applies for Windows is the ability to define a restriction list at Group process level for SAS Unix: for Windows, scopes are only twofold : global / per user basis.

The case for discussing with the users as regards their XCMD personal requirements is very strong from my experience; sometimes - if not always - you might make then adopt as best practice pure SAS code instead of the nefarious System Commands (unstable, difficult to debug, OS-dependent or even shell-dependent etc.).

Ronan