SAS Output

SASware Ballot® Results Base SAS® Software
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Part I SAS Language
General
SAS Language	3	1	744	provide an option that enables you to turn off or on certain notes that are written to the SAS log; for example, notes about data set compression, invalid data, or invalid argument to a function
	25	3	363	provide the ability to define SAS data set and variable names with a length of up to 70 characters
	40	11	177	add a method for SAS to estimate the number of observations in a view in order to estimate resource needs
	44	12	166	generate a log message to indicate a loss of precision may occur when changing a numeric value from 8-bytes to a smaller number of bytes
	52	14	144	allow multiple SAS jobs to function as batch SAS command line parameters
	57	15	129	allow the usage of special characters such as: !, &, %, and when creating or applying passwords with PROC DATASETS or other SAS processes
	59	16	125	provide the ability to enter numeric option values with commas included as in FIRSTOBS=256,789
	66	19	115	add the ability to create bit map indexes to enhance performance and take up less space
	88	24	95	provide a PROPCASE value for the VALIDVARNAME= option to capitalize the first letter in each variable name

DATA Step
	27	5	294	set a DATA step variable to indicate which data sets contribute data for a MERGE statement
	30	7	236	add a window to the DATA step debugger that lists the values of all variables
	121	27	58	add an option similar to DKRICOND that enables you to set the level of message when you get the message "SAS went to a new line when input statement reached past the end of a line."

Functions
	26	4	323	add an option to the SUBSTR function that enables you to enter the ending position of the substring to extract
	28	6	265	add a function that shows the current line number of the code from which that code was called
	34	9	205	add a function or CALL routine to set a variable to a value when passed the name of the variable to set and the value to set it to
	49	13	150	allow the DATA step OPEN function to open a data set for write and update access, and provide functions to add and update observations in a data set
	85	23	97	add a function that allows you to abbreviate the value of a variable in order to better make use of space in the output
	125	28	55	add an option similar to FMTSEARCH that enables you to specify an alternate location for the zip code data set

Display Manager System & Enhanced/Text Editor
	4	2	737	provide the functionality to stop a SAS process in interactive mode exactly as the ERRORABEND option stops a process in batch mode - immediately stop the process upon error, produce a log, and not terminate the session
	31	8	228	add the ability to highlight and submit multiple discontiguous blocks of code
	36	10	202	add the ability to submit the PROC or DATA step in which the cursor is currently positioned without highlighting the code
	61	17	124	provide a method for the recently used files list of the SAS Explorer window the ability to expand the width of the text displayed, or display enough text to distinguish as unique
	71	20	108	allow keyboard macros to issue SAS commands
	95	25	83	add the ability to search macro descriptions in the Keyboard Macros window
	105	26	74	add the ability to set the foreground and background colors for both selected (highlighted) text (when the Find window is active) and selected text not in focus (Find window closed)
	169	29	28	issue messages to indicate that a font size is incompatible with 3270 programmed symbols

Viewtable Window
	63	18	120	provide an option to disable text wrapping
	74	21	107	provide the ability to set justification of column values
	80	22	105	provide the ability to scroll horizontally via a function key


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Part II Base SAS Procedures
PROC CPORT
Base SAS Procedures	55	12	131	provide an option to allow the encryption of transport files

PROC FORMAT
	7	1	670	add the ability to create multilabel formats using CNTLIN data sets

PROC FREQ
	66	16	115	increase consistency between the crosstabs template and other table templates
	120	23	59	provide the Mantel-Fleiss criterion for the stratified Mantel-Haenszel test

PROC MEANS
	97	20	81	provide an alternate form of the AUTONAME option

PROC REPORT
	32	3	210	provide the ability to suppress summary lines when there is only one observation for a group
	37	5	196	add an option to prevent groups from splitting across pages
	43	7	171	provide an option to specify an indention when text flows to the next row
	45	8	156	for ODS HTML, PDF, RTF, and PRINTER output, optionally suppress the printing of a blank LINE statement when all of the variables used in the LINE statement are either blank or missing
	50	10	147	provide the ability to conditionally execute LINE statements in a COMPUTE block
	55	12	131	provide the ability to dynamically align text from LINE statements with report columns
	62	14	123	support COMPUTE BEFORE _PAGE_ and COMPUTE AFTER _PAGE_ with ODS RTF output
	63	15	120	provide the ability to have multiple justifications for LINE statements in a COMPUTE block in ODS output so that each LINE statement can be customized, and make each LINE statement an individual cell in ODS destinations
	71	17	108	provide the ability to use multiple BREAK statements on the same GROUP or ORDER variable
	85	18	97	change the way output is printed when ACROSS variables are used to align values in the same row
	94	19	88	provide an option to produce a line, like the HEADLINE option produces, below the report after the detail rows on a page and above the footnotes on each page
	97	20	81	eliminate the requirement that each item in a LINE statement have an accompanying format
	104	22	75	add labels created from a combination of column header values to the ACROSS variable columns in output data sets

PROC SORT
	45	8	156	provide the ability to sort all variables except variables listed on the BY statement

PROC SQL
	12	2	605	add a NOWARN option to prevent WARNINGS from being returned by PROC SQL
	33	4	207	add the ability to use a CALCULATED reference on an ON clause like you can on a WHERE clause with PROC SQL
	41	6	175	provide the ability to create a macro variable range without having to specify an upper bound for the range using the PROC SQL / :INTO syntax

PROC UNIVARIATE
	51	11	146	add confidence interval options for nonstandard quantiles


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Part III SAS Macro Facility
SAS Macro Facility	1	1	859	assign line numbers to code seen in a log generated by a macro in order to correlate with any LINE:COL messages given at the bottom of a DATA Step


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Part IV SAS Output Delivery System (ODS)
ExcelXP
SAS Output Delivery System (ODS)	54	1	140	provide the ability to determine the location to start writing data using the ExcelXP tagset
	70	2	110	provide the ability to populate the VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions using the ExcelXP tagset
	74	3	107	include procedure titles in output that is created with the ExcelXP tagset

PRINTER (PCL, PDF, PS)
	83	4	102	allow access to page numbers in ODS PRINTER destinations (PCL/PDF/PS) as macro variables
	102	5	77	provide the ability to reset LASTPAGE in the ODS PRINTER destinations (PCL/PDF/PS)