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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Reasons to love PROC DS2](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/02/ProblemSolvers.jpg)
PROC DS2 (DS2) is a new SAS programming language that extends the power of the traditional DATA step. Some customers have wondered if this new functionality is simply the “DATA step on steroids,” meaning that we simply added more robust functionality so that it’s a replacement for the DATA step.
![DataFlux Data Management Server 2.7: REST APIs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/02/RESTAPIs.png)
REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing web services that access a system's resources using HTTP methods. With the release of DataFlux Data Management 2.7 earlier this year, three new REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are now available: Data Management Server Batch Jobs Data Management Server Real-time
![Data Governance Series: Share DataFlux Data Quality profiling metrics in SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/02/profiling-processes-results-in-SAS-Visual-Analytics..jpg)
This is my first blog post, and the first of a long series around Data Governance. The first thing I want to discuss is the ability to Share DataFlux Data Quality profiling metrics in SAS Visual Analytics. This post will illustrate how to extract profiling data from the DataFlux repository
![New year resolution: Don't let old stuff slow down your SAS Grid](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/02/GridAbstract.jpg)
As another year goes by, many people think about new year’s resolutions. It’s probably the third year in row that I’ve promised myself I’d start exercising in the fabulous SAS gym. Of course, I blame the recently concluded holiday season. With all the food-focused events, I couldn’t resist, ate way
![Accessing the provided Relationship Report in SAS Visual Analytics 7.3](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/01/Relationship_Report_in_SAS_Visual_Analytics.jpg)
In SAS Visual Analytics 7.3, the usage reports accessed from the administrator includes a relationship report. This report provides very basic lineage and dependency information for selected object types. The data to populate this report comes from the middle-tier relationship service. Once you enable the collection and extraction of this
![Introducing data-driven loops](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/01/data-driven-loops.jpg)
Programming loops are a staple of any computer programming language. In essence, loops are what make programming languages so powerful. In all programming loops, a group of statements is executed repeatedly based on the value of an index variable that changes from one iteration to another. The iterations are continued