Overview

This document extends the concepts presented in Getting Started with SAS/ASSIST, providing additional details on the features and capabilities of SAS/ASSIST software. Additionally, features of SAS/ASSIST software not covered in Getting Started with SAS/ASSIST are introduced in this document.

Readers of this document should be familiar with the concepts presented in Getting Started with SAS/ASSIST, and should have installed, at minimum, base SAS software, SAS/ASSIST software, and SAS/FSP software. To perform the graphics tasks, users should have SAS/GRAPH software installed. To perform tasks that access or create DB2 files, or files from other database management system (DBMS) vendors, users should have installed SAS/ACCESS software and the SAS/ACCESS interface to their desired DBMS.

The illustrations and examples from this document were taken from SAS/ASSIST 9.1 under the Microsoft Windows operating environment. Your screens might look different from the illustrations in this document.

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