What's New (Arranged by Date)
The "What's New (Arranged by Date)" page lists the documentation additions and changes in support
of service packs, new product releases, and new or enhanced features.
July 2008
The documentation for the following products have been updated:
- SAS Intelligence Platform
- SAS OnlineDoc 9.1.3 for the Web
- The Getting Started with SAS Enterprise Miner 5.3 is now available from SAS OnlineDoc 9.1.3 on the Web.
June 2008
The documentation for the following product has been updated:
December 2007
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
August 2007
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
June 2007
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- SAS AppDev Studio 3.2.2
- SAS AppDev Studio 3.2.2 now provides support for multiple versions of the SAS WIK (Web Infrastructure Kit) in the SAS Web Module with WIK facet.
- SAS BI Dashboard 3.1
- This new EBI component enables users to deploy dashboards via the SAS Portal. It allows users to monitor key performance indicators that convey how well their organization is performing.
Dashboards can include graphics, text, conditional highlighting, and hyperlinks to supporting detail.
- SAS Intelligence Platform
- SAS OnlineDoc 9.1.3 for the Web
- The SAS BI Dashboard 3.1: User's Guide is now available from SAS OnlineDoc 9.1.3 on the Web.
- The SAS Data Integration Studio User's Guide has been updated for SAS Data Integration Studio 3.4 and has been extensively revised to make the book more task-oriented. The updated book is now available from SAS OnlineDoc 9.1.3 on the Web.
February 2007
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
November 2006
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- SAS Integration Technologies
- The new SAS Intelligence Platform: Application Server Administration Guide provides server administration documentation for the SAS Intelligence Platform. For customers who are not using the SAS Intelligence Platform, server administration information continues to be available in the SAS Integration Technologies Server Administrator's Guide.
- The SAS Web Infrastructure Kit Administrator's Guide is no longer available. Documentation for administering the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit and the SAS Information Delivery Portal is now located in the new SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.
- SAS Intelligence Platform
- The SAS Intelligence Platform: Administration Guide has been divided into five documents to address particular audience needs. For example, there are now separate documents for a database administrator and a Web applications administrator.
- The SAS OLAP Server: Administrator's Guide and the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit: Administrator's Guide are now fully integrated into the SAS Intelligence Platform library, and no longer exist as separate documents.
- The new SAS Intelligence Platform: Troubleshooting Your Initial Installation contains troubleshooting content that was previously in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation Guide.
- SAS OLAP Server
- The SAS OLAP Server: Administrator's Guide is no longer available. The administrative documentation for the SAS OLAP Server software has been fully integrated into the SAS Intelligence Platform library. The other SAS OLAP Server documents, the SAS OLAP Server: User's Guide and the SAS OLAP Server: MDX Guide, remain available.
- SAS Open Metadata Architecture
- Administrative documentation for the SAS Metadata Server has moved into the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
- SAS Text Miner 3.1
September 2006
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- SAS/ACCESS 4.2 Interface to R/3
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The new -S RFC server option registers the SAS RFC server at an SAP gateway, enabling it to receive requests for information from the SAS RFC Server Monitor in the SAP Netweaver Portal.
- SAS/ACCESS 4.2 Interface to R/3 and later supports Unicode SAP servers on Windows and UNIX.
- You can develop alternative authorization schemes for reading R/3 tables by using enhanced authorization checks through the /SAS/AUTH01 Business Add-In (BAdI).
- SAS AppDev Studio 3.2
- SAS Data Surveyor 4.2 for SAP
- SAS Management Console
- When you create a new library, it is now automatically placed in a folder with the same name as the library. Imported data tables are stored in the folder for the library to which they were imported.
- Resource templates for server, library, and schema definitions have been changed.
- Metadata bridges, which are used when importing or exporting metadata, are now obtained from your SAS Account Executive or from
support.sas.com.
- SAS OnlineDoc 9.1.3 for the Web
- An alphabetical list of the SAS procedures has been added. Each procedure links to the procedure documentation in SAS OnlineDoc or links to the procedure documentation on
support.sas.com. In SAS OnlineDoc, the TOC entry for this list is SAS Procedures.
August 2006
The documentation for the following product has been updated:
- SAS High Performance Forecasting 2.2
- The new HPFRECONCILE procedure enables you to perform large-scale reconciliation of hierarchical forecasts by using predictions, standard errors, and confidence limits reconciliation.
- The HPFSELECT procedure has added two experimental options for external variable mapping (EXMMAP= option) and the external forecast function (EXMFUNC= option).
- Several new options were added to the HPFDIAGNOSE and HPFEVENTS procedures.
July 2006
The documentation for the following product has been updated:
June 2006
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
April 2006
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2
- The Getting Started with Enterprise Miner 5.2 book describes the core functionality of SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 and how to perform
basic data mining tasks. This book is available from the SAS 9.1.3 OnlineDoc on the Web and is available for purchase from the SAS
Publications Catalog.
March 2006
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- SAS/ACCESS Interfaces to Relational Databases (part of Service Pack 4)
- HP-UX for the Itanium Processor Family Architecture is available for Teradata.
- In the SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 under z/OS, the new REMOTE_DBTYPE= option in the LIBNAME statement ensures that the SQL that is used by some SAS procedures to access the DB2 catalog tables is generated properly, based on the database server type.
- In the SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL, the INSERTBUFF= LIBNAME statement option and the INSERTBUFF= data set option specify the number of rows in a single insert operation.
- In the SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata, the following functionality is new:
- The interface to Teradata supports a bulk-load capability called MultiLoad, which greatly accelerates insertion of data into both empty and existing Teradata tables.
- When processing WHERE statements that contain literal values for TIME or TIMESTAMP, the SAS engine passes the values to Teradata exactly as they were entered, without rounding or truncation.
- SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 2.1
- SAS Data Integration Studio 3.3
- SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1
- SAS Information Delivery Portal (part of Service Pack 4)
- A WebDAV content portlet can contain a link to additional detailed information.
- Additional enhancements were made to the information map viewer.
- SAS Information Map Studio 3.1
- SAS Integration Technologies (part of Service Pack 4)
- SAS BI Web Services for Java can be secured using trusted Web server authentication.
- The SAS Web Infrastructure Kit includes modifications to the theme templates and style sheets.
- SAS Intelligence Platform
- The SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Planning and Administration Guide was updated and divided into five documents.
- SAS/IntrNet: Application Dispatcher
- You can now use Application Dispatcher to upload one or more files to your Application Server.
- SAS Language Reference (part of Service Pack 4)
- For the LIBNAME statement for WebDAV Server Access, the new PROXY= option specifies the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the proxy server.
- SAS Metadata LIBNAME Engine (part of Service Pack 4)
- With the default behavior of the engine (METAOUT=ALL), you can no longer create or delete tables or their associated metadata.
- When METAOUT=DATA is specified for a table, the metadata engine behaves more like the underlying engine that is defined in the metadata.
- You are advised to use the METALIB procedure instead of METAOUT=META to create, update, or delete metadata.
- SQL implicit pass-through is supported.
- SAS OLAP Server
- A Specify Map function has been added to SAS OLAP Cube Studio.
- New tuning capabilities for the query thread pool are now available for each of your SAS OLAP Servers.
- A tuning Options window has been added to the Manual Tuning function and the Advanced Aggregation Tuning plug-in.
- A subquery cache can now be enabled, disabled, and sized for each of your SAS OLAP Servers.
- SAS Open Metadata Architecture (part of Service Pack 4)
- SAS Metadata Server documentation has been folded into SAS Intelligence Platform documentation.
- The SAS Metadata Server backup macro, %OMABAKUP, supports automated restore of the SAS Metadata Server.
- The %OMAOPTMZ autocall macro is retired and replaced by two new ways to analyze and improve memory usage by SAS Metadata Repositories.
- SAS/OR 9.1.3, Release 2
- SAS Output Delivery System (part of Service Pack 4)
- The ODS MARKUP statement now has the following options: the EVENT= option, the TEXT= option, and the TITLE= suboption.
- The ODS RTF statement now has the following options: BODYTITLE, CONTENTS, TOC_DATA, COLUMNS=, and TEXT= options.
- SAS Procedures (part of Service Pack 4)
- The EXPORT procedure now supports export to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (Version 5.0 and higher), export to SPSS files on Windows, and export to Stata files on Windows.
- The new INFOMAPS procedure enables you to create SAS Information Maps programmatically.
- The IMPORT procedure now supports the import of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (Version 5.0 and higher), the import of SPSS files on Windows, and the import of Stata files on Windows.
- SAS Web Report Studio 3.1
December 2005
The documentation for the following product has been updated:
- SAS/STAT
Several procedures are now available via Web download for the Windows platform. They work only with SAS 9.1. PROC GLIMMIX fits generalized
linear mixed models. For more information about these procedures and a link to the download site, see
http://www.sas.com/statistics.
November 2005
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
September 2005
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- SAS ETL Studio 3.3
- SAS/Genetics
- PROC ALLELE has been enhanced for calculating LD measures, and a new HAPLO=NONEHWD option is now offered.
- In PROC CASECONTROL, a STRATA statement for stratified analysis and an OR option to request odds ratios are now available.
- PROC FAMILY contains a new XLVAR statement for testing X-linked markers and an OUTQ= option for outputting allelic scores.
- In PROC HAPLOTYPE, Bayesian estimation of haplotype frequencies can now be requested with the experimental EST=BAYESIAN and related options.
- PROC HTSNP offers an alternative measure for evaluating a set of htSNPs.
- In PROC PSMOOTH, the FDR method for adjusting p-values for multiple testing can now be applied.
- SAS Intelligence Platform
- The SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Planning and Administration Guide has been divided into three guides and added to
SAS 9.1.3 OnlineDoc.
- Updates have been made to the topics about establishing connections to data sources, managing SAS libraries, tuning the JVM in your
Java application server, and configuring SAS Enterprise Miner for use.
- More task-oriented information for security and new chapters about scheduling jobs and grid computing have been added.
- The SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Single-User Installation Guide has been added to SAS 9.1.3 OnlineDoc.
- SAS Management Console
- Support has been added for a grid computing configuration.
July 2005
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- Base SAS Language (part of Service Pack 3)
- Several formats have been enhanced with default and range values.
- SAS/ACCESS Interfaces to Relational Databases (part of Service Pack 3)
- Linux for Intel Architecture is now available for Teradata.
- New performance-enhancing data set options are available for Oracle.
- SAS Information Delivery Portal (part of Service Pack 3)
- Two new portlet types have been added: WebDAV graph portlets and information map viewer portlets.
- Numerous content management features have been added to the user interface.
- SAS/IntrNet: Application Dispatcher
- The Application Broker welcome page can be customized.
- SAS Management Console
- Flows can be scheduled using operating system scheduling services.
- Resource templates have been added for the SAS Grid Server and the Grid Monitoring Server.
- SAS OLAP Server (part of Service Pack 3)
- SAS OLAP Servers are now automatically installed as Windows services.
- The Define Distinct Count function, Export Cube and Import Cube functions, and the Synchronize Levels function are new.
- When creating a cube dimension in SAS OLAP Cube Studio's Cube Designer wizard, a hierarchy for a dimension will automatically be
created when no hierarchy has been explicitly defined.
- The documentation for SAS OLAP Server has been expanded.
- SAS Open Metadata Architecture (part of Service Pack 3)
- The SAS Open Metadata Interface and Java Metadata Interface APIs are enhanced to return more detailed SAS Metadata Model and SAS Metadata
Server version information.
- The SAS Open Metadata Interface CheckinMetadata method (used by change management processes) is enhanced to remove a character limit on
the amount of user-defined text that customers can store to describe metadata changes.
- The SAS Metadata Server configuration option, PHYSICAL_DELETE, is deprecated.
- A new procedure, PROC METALIB, automates the creation and maintenance of the table metadata defined for a SAS library.
- Two additional objectserverparms options, THREADSMIN (TMIN) and THREADSMAX (TMAX), can be set in the SAS Metadata Server start command
to improve metadata server performance.
June 2005
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3
- Two new RFC server options offer enhanced performance and batch compatibility.
- Unicode and non-Unicode SAP R/3 servers are supported.
- A simplified process for creating an RFC server destination for a small SAP configuration enables you to omit the gateway information.
- SAS Data Surveyor 4.1 for SAP
- SAS Inventory Replenishment Planning
- The new ALGORITHM=, QGRID=, and DIST= options for the IRP procedure give the user more control over calculating policies.
- The IRP procedure includes new and improved algorithms.
- The MIRP procedure is now production instead of experimental. It supports multi-period planning and new policy type and service-level
measure options.
- The new SAS Inventory Policy Studio solution (preproduction) provides a user-friendly interface to the IRP procedure.
March 2005
The documentation for the following products has been updated:
- Base SAS Language (part of Service Pack 2)
- The LIBNAME statement now supports secure access to SAS libraries on a WebDAV server.
- Data Security Technologies in SAS (part of Service Pack 2)
- A new SAS/SECURE SSL Add-In Package is required to use the SAS 9.1.3 SSL software.
- SAS now supports the tunneling feature of SSH functionality.
- SAS/ACCESS Interfaces for Relational Databases
(part of Service Pack 2)
- AIX (RS/6000) is available for MySQL.
- HP-UX for the Itanium Processor Family Architecture is now available for Sybase.
- SAS Information Delivery Portal (part of Service Pack 2)
- A new portlet type, WebDAV content portlets, has been added.
- Content administrators can delete shared pages and page templates from the metadata repository.
- Extensive enhancements were made to the information map viewing functions.
- SAS Information Map Studio 2.1
- SAS OLAP Server (part of Service Pack 2)
- The PROC AGGREGATION statement and SAS OLAP Cube Studio's Manual tuning function have been enhanced for use with cubes that employ
aggregated data from other tables or for use with cubes that have no NWAY aggregation.
- The Advanced Aggregation Tuning Plugin provides a point-and-click interface that enables you to create and add aggregations to the
list of existing aggregations that might already be defined for the cube.
- SAS Open Metadata Architecture
- The new REORG= option in the %OMABAKUP metadata server backup macro enables administrators to reclaim unused disk space in SAS metadata
repositories.
- SAS Web Report Studio 2.1
December 2004
The documentation for the following products has been updated: