What's New in the SAS 9.2 Companion for Windows

SAS under Windows enables you to complete your data and computation tasks in SAS while integrating with the Windows applications that are already in place on your desktop and within your enterprise. SAS supports information sharing through Windows tools and techniques.

The following changes and enhancements are new in SAS under Windows:

• SAS default directory path

• word tip

• software migration

• Windows NT, 2000, and Vista

• running SAS in batch mode

• SAS disk cleanup handler utility

• SAS language elements

The default directory path where SAS is installed has changed. The C:\Program Files\SAS directory is now the root location for all of the SAS products that you install. In previous versions of SAS, the directory path was C:\Program Files\SAS\SAS X.X. The directory path is now C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.2. This path maps to the !SASROOT directory that is used in this document.

Information was added about Using Word Tips that help in understanding abbreviations that you add.

The following information was added and enhanced regarding the migration of SAS software.

• Differences between 32-bit SAS for Windows and 64-bit SAS for Windows are clarified.

• Short extensions are now included in Windows File Extensions and their corresponding SAS Member Types table.

• References are now included in Using SAS Files from Other Versions with SAS 9.2 for Windows to the SAS migration community at support.sas.com/migration.

• Starting with SAS 9.1, you can now use the MIGRATE procedure to migrate a SAS data library from a previous release. You are now warned not to use the CPORT and CIMPORT procedures when you are regressing a SAS file to a previous release.

• New references to cross-release compatibility are included in the migration community at support.sas.com/migration.

Windows NT and Windows 2000 are not supported. Windows Vista is supported. Windows Vista information is now included.

The Running SAS in Batch Mode section was added to the document. This section describes how you can submit a SAS job in batch mode.

The SAS Disk Cleanup Handler Utility is new. The SAS Disk Cleanup Handler will search for and clean any temporary files or directories that were generated by SAS. The SAS Disc Cleanup Handler Utility cleans directories such as SAS Work and SAS_util directories as well. SAS Disk Cleanup Handler is a COM hook into the Microsoft Disk Cleanup Handler (cleanmgr.exe).

Commands

The following SAS command was modified:

• The ICON command has two new arguments: ON and OFF.

Data Set Options

The following data set option is new:

• The SGIO data set option

Statements

The range of the LRECL (record-length) option was changed to 1 - 1,073,741,823 for the following statements:

• FILE

• FILENAME

• &INCLUDE

• INFILE

Macros

The automatic macro variable, SYSSCPL, has several new values. The SYSSCPL variable returns the name of the specific Windows environment that you are using.

System Options

The following system option is now enhanced:

• Information was added to the MEMSIZE system option to specify the total amount of memory that is available to each SAS session.

The following system options are new:

• APPEND

• INSERT

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