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SAS Enterprise Guide

In SAS 9.2, there have been two releases of SAS Enterprise Guide. The release that you are upgrading to depends on when you placed your order. Review your Software Order E-mail to determine which release of SAS Enterprise Guide is in your order. Then review the topic for the 4.2 or 4.3 release.

SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2

The following considerations apply to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 customers who have used SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 or earlier releases.

Support for SAS Enterprise Guide repositories has been discontinued; all metadata must be stored in a SAS Metadata Repository.
Servers are no longer administered through SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer, and must now be administered using SAS Management Console. For information about administering servers, see the online Help for SAS Management Console.
Users and user groups are no longer administered through SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer, and must now be administered using SAS Management Console. For information about administering users, see the online Help for SAS Management Console.
The project format has changed from earlier releases. To change the format, you must either open each project in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 or use the Migration Wizard for SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. You must also use the migration wizard to import the metadata changes that occurred during the BI migration from SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.2. For more information, see "Using the Migration Wizard" in Administering SAS Enterprise Guide.
Tasks are no longer enabled or disabled for user groups, so any task assignments for SAS Enterprise Guide users are not maintained. Any restrictions on SAS Enterprise Guide tasks must be made through roles, and administered through SAS Management Console. For information about using roles in SAS Enterprise Guide, see "Administering Role-Based Settings" in Administering SAS Enterprise Guide and the online Help for SAS Management Console.

SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

The following considerations apply to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 customers who have used SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 or earlier releases.

The new Map Chart task creates a two-dimensional (choropleth) or three-dimensional (block and prism) color map that shows the variation in the value of a response variable for different geographical areas, such as counties, states, and countries.

The Create Map Chart task no longer requires specially prepared data ("feature tables") to create useful maps. Now, it is easier to create map charts that use only a map data set and your response values.

The Create Map Feature Table task, provided with earlier versions of SAS Enterprise Guide, is no longer needed and is marked as deprecated. Your existing projects that use this task will still run. However, you will not be able to create new steps that use the Create Map Feature Table task.
In previous releases of SAS Enterprise Guide, the project file stored external file references as absolute paths. In SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3, these external file references are stored as relative paths, which makes it easier for you to move the project file, data, and programs to a different folder or a different machine. In SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3, use pathnames that are relative to the current location of the project file instead of using a full path.
In SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3, you can open reports that were generated by SAS Web Report Studio 4.3. You must have SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 installed to open prompted reports in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3. For more information, see http://support.sas.com/kb/40/386.html.
If the input data source for a task is from a DBMS engine, then SAS uses the sort functionality on the database to sort the data before running the task. Using the database functionality rather than the SORT procedure, which is used for files that are not saved to a database, optimizes the performance of the SAS task.

For more information about the new features and enhancements in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3, see http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/guide/index.html.

Note: If you are upgrading from the 4.2 release, see the SAS Enterprise Guide topic in Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades for SAS 9.2 at http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/whatsdiff/63928/HTML/default/eg43.htm. [cautionend]

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