Installation Note 68602: SAS® Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4 - Release Notes
SAS Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4 is the November 2021 release of this SAS Health and Life Sciences solution offering.
This release introduces a number of requested features and enhancements.
Key features are listed below.
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SAS® Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4
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 only granted implicit membership via a group
- Process Flows
- ability to add explicit members as candidates and notification recipients when the associated context’s members are only granted 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 only granted 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
- 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
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In addition to the introduction of the above new features and enhancements, the tables below document behaviors specific to as well as software issues addressed in SAS Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4:
SAS Note
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Behaviors Specific to SAS® Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4 |
| 68423 |
There is no current support for quick filtering on column values that represent lists of values |
SAS Note
Number |
Software Issues Addressed in SAS® Life Science Analytics Framework 5.4 |
| 66877 |
PROC COMPARE displays are misleading when character values contain leading, trailing, or embedded blanks |
| 67274 |
A job completes with a status of "Failed with SAS errors" but no errors are present in the log |
| 67412 |
Recovered files functionality compromised if files and associated index become out of sync |
| 67413 |
Initiating a SAS session returns a pop-up message stating "The server has encountered an error" |
| 67866 |
The Data Viewer Statistics table does not properly sort displayed numeric values in the Frequency column |
| 67869 |
An error message appears after you scroll quickly through a large data set |
| 68215 |
An incorrect date of "September 19, 2001" might appear as the modified date for an interactive user |
| 68319 |
Switching between multiple open programs might not bring focus to the correct program for submission |
| 68485 |
The dashboard resource allocation report for transient workspaces is not correct for certain job types |
| 69082 |
Applying certain filters in Data Viewer results causes the application to become unresponsive |
| 69763 |
Multiple open and active SAS sessions can become intermingled |
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS Life Science Analytics Framework | Linux for x64 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M7 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Installation Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2022-11-10 14:43:50 |
| Date Created: | 2021-11-12 15:48:46 |
