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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![SAS tools for GDPR privacy compliant reporting](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/04/protecting-personal-identity.jpg)
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect on 25 May 2018 pertains not only to organizations located within the EU; it applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location. Here are four selected SAS tools for GDPR that allow you to protect personal data in SAS reports by suppressing counts in small demographic group reports.
![How to expand the number of available SAS functions within the macro language](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/ProblemSolvers_Graphic-400x336.jpg)
The %SYSFUNC macro function allows you to access most SAS® functions. In this blog post, I demonstrate how %SYSFUNC can help in your programming needs when a macro function might not exist. I'll also share the formatting feature that is built in to %SYSFUNC and introduce the %QSYSFUNC that masks the returned value.
![SAS Visual Analytics filters on periodic calculations: Apply them or ignore them!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/04/Filters8-702x336.jpg)
SAS Visual Analytics filters in 7.4 and 8.2 enable you to improve the appearance of reports based on calculations that use periodic operators. Parameter settings also enable you to provide users with a prompt for choosing the data to display in a report, without having any effect on the calculations themselves.
![How to Emulate DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS® Viya™](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/04/DESCENDING2-657x336.png)
DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS Viya
![Peak moments define SAS Global Forum 2018](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/04/Peaks-702x336.png)
At the Executive Conference at SAS Global Forum 2018 speaker Dan Heath says customer experiences are defined by peak moments. In this blog post, E.G. Nadhan, Chief Technology Strategist at Red Hat, shares his peak moments from SAS Global Forum 2018.
![An introduction to SAS Visual Forecasting 8.2](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/04/VF15-702x336.png)
This post is an introduction to SAS Visual Forecasting 8.2. We'll build a Visual Forecasting (VF) Pipeline, which is a process flow diagram whose nodes represent tasks in the VF Process. The objective is to show how to perform the full analytics life cycle with large volumes of data: from accessing data and assigning variable roles accurately, to building forecasting models, to select a champion model and overriding the system generated forecast.