How to use the SAS® 9 Content Assessment Tool
SAS' Ben Yarbrough reveals the four questions to answer and four steps to take as you transition to SAS Viya.
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Important caveats to consider when you run a DATA step on CAS tables
Kevin Russell of SAS Technical Support reveals the effects of data size and language elements in your code when you execute the DATA step in CAS.
Tips for Scheduling Flows with SAS Viya Environment Manager
Set it and forget it. That’s how SAS Viya Jobs and Flows should work, right? Well, just like most other things in life, it’s not that simple. What if you have multiple Jobs set to run in a Flow and one fails? Do you exit the process or continue with
Creating a report that displays only the column headings for a data set containing 0 records
This blog demonstrates how to create a report that provides only the column headings for data that is missing. The blog also explains how to create, select, and exclude output objects as well as how to generate reports with the SAS® Output Delivery System (ODS). These concepts are relevant to the task of generating a report with the column headings for a data set that contains no (0) observations.
Tips for working with date, time, and datetime values in DS2
Date and time values are handled differently when programming in DS2. It can process databases and has access to ANSI data types, which have greater precision.
Turning external files into SAS® data sets: common problems and their solutions
Amber Elam of SAS Technical Support reveals common challenges and solutions when you convert external files into SAS data sets.
How to schedule and manage your SAS hot fixes
This, the third of three posts on our hot-fix process, provides a spreadsheet and tips to track and manage your SAS®9 environment.
Understanding the SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool Report
Passionate about helping SAS customers, Sandy Gibbs of Technical Support sheds light on the SASHFADD tool report. This is the second of three posts on our hot-fix process.
The SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment (SASHFADD) Tool
SAS' Sandy Gibbs kicks off a series of posts on hot fixes for SAS®9 environments.
Debugging SASUSER issues when you use SAS® software
When you use SAS software, you might occasionally encounter an issue with SASUSER. This post helps you debug some of the more common issues: a warning message indicates that SASUSER.TEMPLAT is not an item store or that you cannot write to SASUSER.TEMPLAT a note in the log indicates that SAS