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On the ODS Markup page, several tagsets are updated and available for download.
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Base SAS
SAS®9
Whether or not you have installed SAS®9 software yet, you can use this page to learn more about its features and benefits. See SAS online documentation for detailed What's New information.
Requesting SAS®9
Interested customers can request an upgrade. For more information, contact your local SAS office or call us toll free at 1-800-727-0025 (U.S. and Canada).
New Features in SAS®9.3
- What's New in SAS
- SAS 9.3 Software Highlights
- At the Crossroads: How to Decide on Your Graphics Path (.pdf) New! (April 2012)
- Where’s the LISTING Window: Using the New Results Viewer in SAS 9.3 (.pdf) New! (April 2012)
- Using the New Features in PROC FORMAT (.pdf) New! (April 2012)
New Features in SAS®9.2
The following papers were presented at SAS Global Forum. Check out other areas of this site for more SGF papers about Base SAS.
- Don't Be a SAS Dinosaur: Modernizing Programs with Base SAS® 9.2 Enhancements (.pdf) (March 2009)
- A Sampler of What's New in Base SAS 9.2 (2008)
The following Base SAS enhancements were featured in a SUGI 31 demo. These topics contain example code.
- PROC DOCUMENT
- New fonts
- Inline formatting
- Measured RTF tagset
- ODS GRAPHICS
- ODS PDF
- ODS RTF
- More ODS enhancements
- Base SAS procedures (updated March 2009)
New Features in SAS®9.1
- Perl Regular Expressions in the DATA Step.
- The ODS Markup destination and the ODS tagset facility.
- New ODS Printer features. (See the "What's New for V9" paper.)
- The new ODS destination ODS Document and PROC DOCUMENT.
- The SAS XML LIBNAME Engine.
- The SAS Macro Facility.
- Several procedures are improved to work better with the Output Delivery System (ODS).
- PROC REGISTRY can list and compare SAS registries.
- PROC FREQ supports new options that enhance statistical processing.
- PROC PRTDEF supports 15 new variables to control the default printer settings, and PROC PRTEXP writes those attributes to the log or to a data set.
- User-created formats and informats support longer, easier-to-read names.
- Several PROCs support the new THREADS | NOTHREADS option for multithreaded processing. SAS system options CPUCOUNT and THREADS enable threaded processing.
- Several new functions and CALL routines are available for character strings, mathematics, and descriptive statistics.
- Application Response Measurement (ARM) monitors the availability and performance of transactions within and across diverse applications.
Compatibility and Migration
The following information will be of interest when you upgrade to SAS®9.
- The Migration Focus Area is a central location for migration and cross-release compatibility information.
- See SAS National Language Support: User's Guide in the SAS online documentation for information about setting and overriding character encoding.
Your Turn
The developers, testers, and documenters of SAS Software are very excited about the potential of these new capabilities. You can send electronic mail to base.research@sas.com with your comments.
