What's New in SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1
Overview
SAS Enterprise Guide
5.1 includes the following new features and enhancements:
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new 64-bit SAS Enterprise Guide
application
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new Data Explorer tool that you
can use to view a SAS data set without adding the data set to your
project
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enhancements to the Query Builder,
including reusable query templates and support for subqueries
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new features for editing programs
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new features in the OLAP Analyzer,
including the ability to adjust values in a write-enabled OLAP cube
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improved support for grid computing
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support for parallel execution
of tasks
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enhancements to stored processes
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enhancements to SAS tasks
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new default style for SAS Report
and HTML results
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You can run SAS Enterprise
Guide on either a SAS 9.2 or SAS 9.3 server.
New 64-bit SAS Enterprise Guide Application
SAS Enterprise Guide
5.1 is now available as either a 32-bit or a 64-bit application. If
you are using a 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating system, then you
must use the 32-bit version of SAS Enterprise Guide. If you are using
a 64-bit Windows operating system, then you can run either the 32-bit
or the 64-bit version of SAS Enterprise Guide.
Note: In the 64-bit version of
SAS Enterprise Guide, you cannot open Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft
Access data or send files by using e-mail applications that support
the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI). If you need
these features, install the 32-bit version of SAS Enterprise Guide.
New Data Explorer Tool
The new Data Explorer
tool enables you to perform the following tasks:
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Create a custom view of your data
by selecting columns to include in the view, creating a filter, and
sorting your data.
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Quickly calculate basic charts
and statistics for each column in a SAS data set.
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Add a data exploration view to
your project.
Enhancements to the Query Builder
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Query templates enable you to save
the settings for your specific query to a template that you can use
again.
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Subqueries enable you to use the
results from one query as the input for another query.
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You can use the
Automatically
surround query expressions with parentheses option to
ensure that each expression in a filter is evaluated as a single condition.
New Features for Editing Programs
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You can use the new Web links in
the syntax help window to get additional help when you are writing
or editing a SAS program.
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The autocompletion feature in the
program editor can now complete SAS data set and SAS data set column
names.
Enhancements to the OLAP Analyzer
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If you are using an OLAP server
that supports write-enabled cubes, then you can use the OLAP Analyzer
to adjust values in the cube.
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You can change the format of measures
that are displayed in the OLAP Analyzer.
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The OLAP Analyzer interface has
been updated to display cube views in view groups. Each view group
can contain multiple views of the cube.
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The ESRI map interface has been
updated with new navigation and drawing tools.
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Search functionality has been added
to the Cube Manager and the MDX Editor.
Improved Support for Grid Computing
SAS Enterprise Guide
5.1 has a new option that enables SAS Enterprise Guide to run tasks
in a SAS grid computing environment. You can use this option at the
project level or for an individual task.
Support for Parallel Execution of Tasks
SAS Enterprise Guide
5.1 has a new option that allows parallel execution of tasks on the
same server. You can use this option at the project level or for an
individual task.
Enhancements to Stored Processes
In SAS Enterprise Guide,
you can create stored processes that are compatible with SAS 9.2 or
stored processes that run only on SAS 9.3 servers. These enhancements
are for stored processes that you run on SAS 9.3 servers:
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You can hide a stored process.
When you select this option, the stored process is not available in
the client application where a user might run it.
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The execution options have changed
in the Create New Stored Process Wizard and in the Stored Process
Manager.
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For data sources and data targets,
you now have the option of creating a data table to use as a data
source or data target. For stored processes that are compatible with
SAS 9.2, you can create only generic (byte-stream) data or an XML
stream as the data source or data target.
Enhancements to SAS Tasks
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The new Show an ODS Statistical
Graph task is available in both SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In
for Microsoft Office. In this task, you select the graph definition
(SGD file) to use for a selected data source. The graph definition
can be created in SAS Enterprise Guide.
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In the Tile Chart task, you can
now create a separate chart for each unique value of the specified
BY variable.
New Default Style for SAS Report and HTML Results
HtmlBlue is the new
default style for SAS Report and HTML results.
General Enhancements
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You can suppress the GOPTIONS statement
that is automatically added to the SAS code that SAS Enterprise Guide
generates by using the new
Suppress graph option statement
in generated code option.
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You can now refresh a SAS Web Report
Studio report from within SAS Enterprise Guide.
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You can export a data file as a
Microsoft Excel Open XML Workbook (*.xlsx) file.
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