What's New in the SAS 9.3 Windows Companion

Overview

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 desktop and within your enterprise. SAS supports information sharing through Windows tools and techniques.

General Enhancements

The following enhancements are implemented for 9.3:

HTML is now the default for program output results. To view the output in a listing format, you select Listing on the Results tab of the Preferences dialog box.
User profile paths now include Server 2008 R2.
The INT64 return value type is now included in the RETURNS= attribute for the ROUTINE statement.
Hard drive recommendations now include specific performance information.
Information about running SAS in batch mode has been added.
You can now choose a SASHOME directory in which to install SAS.
Instructions to start the SAS Service Configuration Utility have changed.
An appendix, Troubleshooting Java Runtime Environment has been added.
In the second maintenance release for SAS 9.3, the appendix, Troubleshooting Java Runtime Environment Errors, was modified. The JRE 1.6.0_23 was replaced with JRE 1.6.0_24. A new note specifies that 32–bit JRE installs are required even when the operating system is 64–bit.
Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 are now supported.
Windows 2008 EPIC (Itanium) is no longer supported.

System Options

The following system option is new:

UNIVERSALPRINT

specifies whether to enable menus for Universal Printing and to set up printing defaults.

The following system options are enhanced:

MEMSIZE

the new default value is 2G.

SORTSIZE

the new default value is 256M.

STIMEFMT

specifies the format that is used to display the time on FULLSTIMER and STIMER output.

APPEND

APPEND now supports CMPLIB and AUTOEXEC.

INSERT

INSERT now supports CMPLIB and AUTOEXEC.