SAS^® Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4

* Note that, beginning with SAS Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4, the SAS^® Clinical Standards Toolkit package is no longer provided as a component of the SAS Life Science Analytics Framework software bundle.

This release provides the following enhancements:

• Published jobs
  • ability to determine whether files associated with jobs, such as inputs and outputs or the job itself, have changed since the job was last run; specific details are reported in a new Health Status dialog
• Data Frame Viewer
  • new viewer similar to the SAS Data Set Viewer provides the ability to view the contents of single data frame files (.RData, .rda) and multi data frame files (.rds)
• Data Set Viewer
  • refactoring to support changes in the Session Editor and File Editor as well as for the Data Frame Viewer
• Session and File Editors
  • refactoring for performance and maintenance
• Membership Management
  • ability to add explicit members to groups and roles in a context where members are granted only implicit membership via a group
• Process Flows
  • ability to add explicit members as candidates and notification recipients when the associated context’s members are granted only implicit membership via a group
• Repository Ownership and Permission
  • ability to add explicit members as owners and to permissions when associated context’s members are granted only implicit membership via a group; ability to change ownership in the same manner from the Administrative Mode Ownership tool
• Repository and Workspace
  • ability to create (via Repository contexts) shared workspaces that can be accessed in the workspaces of those users with access to associated context
  • resource utilization dashboard tile updated to show disk usage
• Repository Search
  • refactored for usability
• Auditing
  • file downloads from the workspace are now audited as well as from the repository; optionally, file downloads via the SAS^® Drug Development Desktop Connection client might also be audited
• File Comparison
  • ability to perform file comparison directly from the Checked-out Files view
• System Name Configuration and Macro
  • a configurable system name can now be obtained via _SASINSTANCE_ (SAS session) and LSAF_INSTANCE (R session)
  • system name is also now reported in subscription and other automated system notifications
• Clinical Data and Study Design
  • ability to lock study tables for editing by model type, as well as a continuation of refactoring that began in SAS^® Life Science Analytics Framework 5.3
• General
  • the applications to be included on the left navigation pane are now customizable via preferences