Overview of Running a Custom Analysis

The programming language in SAS/IML Studio, which is called IMLPlus, is an enhanced version of the SAS/IML programming language. The "Plus" part of the name refers to new features that extend the SAS/IML language, including the ability to create and manipulate statistical graphics and to call SAS procedures.

You can write programs in IMLPlus to perform analyses that are not included in SAS/IML Studio. The analyses can be quite complex. In fact, when you use the SAS/IML Studio GUI to select an analysis from the Analysis menu, SAS/IML Studio actually calls an IMLPlus program, so you have already seen examples of what you can accomplish by running IMLPlus programs.