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What's New Table of Contents

What's New in the Windowing Environment for Base SAS 9.0 and 9.1

Overview

The windowing environment in Base SAS 9.0 and later improves usability and SAS performance by providing the following new and enhanced features:

• a new window for viewing ODS documents
• a new window for managing metadata objects
• two new wizards for importing files to, exporting files from, and copying and pasting files to Microsoft Excel 2002 and Microsoft Access 2002
• new capability in the Find window that enables expanded searches of catalogs and libraries
• improvements in the Explorer Options dialog box
• improvements in the File Shortcut Assignment dialog box.

Note:

• This section describes the features of the SAS windowing environment that are new or enhanced since SAS 8.2.
• z/OS is the successor to the OS/390 operating system. SAS 9.1 (and later) is supported on both OS/390 and z/OS operating systems and, throughout this document, any reference to z/OS also applies to OS/390, unless otherwise stated.

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Details

• The new Documents window enables you to view your ODS documents.
• The new Metadata Browser window enables you to manage your metadata objects.
• The new Export wizard exports data to Microsoft Excel 2002 spreadsheets and Microsoft Access 2002 tables. The new data sources are available under the Windows operating environment on a 32-bit platform if your site has a license for the SAS/ACCESS Interface for PC Files.
• The Export Wizard also identifies a specific spreadsheet in a workbook. Exporting to multiple sheets is available for Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, and 2002 spreadsheets under the Windows operating environment on a 32-bit platform if your site has a license for the SAS/ACCESS Interface for PC Files.
• The new Import wizard imports Microsoft Excel 2002 spreadsheets and Microsoft Access 2002 tables. The new data sources are available under the Windows operating environment on a 32-bit platform if your site has a license for the SAS/ACCESS Interface for PC Files.
• Data sets can now be copied and saved into a Microsoft Excel file and saved as HTML.
• Explorer property sheets have been re-designed to make them easier to use.
• The Find window now enables you to search all the entries in the catalogs of any library that you choose.
• The re-designed Explorer Options dialog box has tabbed pages for General, Files, Entries, Members, and Metadata. On the General Files tabbed page, the Remember Column Widths check box has been added.
• The File Shortcut Assignment dialog box can now be used to specify a proxy server and related information.