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 Versions not Supported

• Windows Vista is Supported

• Running SAS in Batch Mode

• SAS Disk Cleanup Handler Utility

• Recovery Information if SAS does not Start

• Logging Facility

• Remote Browsing

• Reformatting SPSS Files

• 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 focus area at support.sas.com/migration.

• Starting with SAS 9.1, you can now use the MIGRATE procedure to migrate a SAS 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 focus area at support.sas.com/migration.

Windows NT, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2008 are not supported.

Windows Vista x64 editions information has been added. Home editions are not supported.

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).

Information has been added to the What If SAS Does Not Start? section to recover if SAS does not start, if the screen appears and then disappears, or if SAS is very slow.

The Logging Facility section has been added to the document.

The Remote Browsing section has been added to the document.

The Reformatting SPSS Files section has been added to the document.

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

Functions

Options FILE SIZE and DATE MODIFIED were added to the FINFO function.

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

• PRNGETLIST

• PRIMARYPROVIDERDOMAIN

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