What's New in SAS 9.3 Formats and Informats

Overview

The SAS formats and informats are now published as a separate document. They are no longer part of SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. For more information, see Changes to SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.
For SAS 9.3, there are no new or enhanced formats.
New informats read IBM date and time values that include a century marker, read Java date and time values, and read hours, minutes, and seconds in the form hhmmss or hh:mm:ss.

New SAS Informats

The following informats are new:
reads an IBM date and time value that includes a century marker, in the form cyymmddhhmmss<fff>.
reads a Java date and time value that is in the form yyyymmddhhmmssffffff.
reads hours, minutes, and seconds in the form hhmmss or hh:mm:ss.

Changes to SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Prior to SAS 9.3, this document was part of SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. Starting with SAS 9.3, SAS Language Reference: Dictionary has been divided into seven documents: