What's New in SAS 9.3 Statements

Overview

The SAS statements documentation is no longer part of SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. See Changes to SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. The SAS statements that were previously documented in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary are now documented here, in SAS Statements: Reference.

The following enhancements are made for the second maintenance release of SAS 9.3.

A new FILENAME statement that enables you to access files on a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
A new LIBNAME option that specifies whether an administrator can access a metadata-bound library for which corresponding metadata is corrupted, misconfigured, or missing.

New SAS Statements

The following SAS statements are new:

FILENAME, Hadoop Access Method

enables you to access files on a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) whose location is specified.

LIBNAME JMP

associates a libref with a JMP data table and enables you to read and write JMP data tables.

RESETLINE

restarts the program line numbering in the SAS log to 1.

Enhanced SAS Statements

The following SAS statements have been enhanced:

ABORT

If you do not specify a value for n, the error code that is returned by SAS is ERROR. The value of ERROR depends on the operating system. The condition code n is returned to the operating system as the final SAS system exit code.

FILE

A new device type, JMS, has been added. This device type is supported on all host operating systems.

FILENAME

A new device type, JMS, has been added. This device type is supported on all host operating systems.

FILENAME, EMAIL Access Method

E-mail addresses can be separated with a comma as well as a space.
Two new e-mail options enable you to specify an expiration date for the e-mail message and specify that a notification be sent when the e-mail message is delivered to the recipient.

FILENAME, FTP Access Method

A new FTP option has been added that specifies that an attempt is made for passive mode FTP.

FILENAME, WebDAV Access Method

A new option has been added that enables you to prompt for a login password if necessary.

INFILE

A new device type, JMS, has been added. This device type is supported on all host operating systems.

LIBNAME

The new option EXTENDOBSCOUNTER= enables you to extend the maximum observation count in all output SAS data files in the SAS library.
In the second maintenance release of 9.3, the new option AUTHADMIN= specifies whether an administrator can access a metadata-bound library for which corresponding metadata is corrupted, misconfigured, or missing.

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:

SAS Data Set Options: Reference
SAS Formats and Informats: Reference
SAS Functions and CALL Routines: Reference
SAS Statements: Reference
SAS System Options: Reference
SAS Component Objects: Reference (contains the documentation for the hash, hash iterator, and Java objects)
Base SAS Utilities: Reference (contains the documentation for the SAS DATA step debugger and the SAS Utility macro %DS2CSV)