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- Tip Sheets (.pdf)
ODS New!
ODS DOCUMENT New!
ODS PDF New!
PROC TEMPLATE tables New!
PROC TEMPLATE styles New!
Reporting PROCs styles New!
Hash object
Perl regular expressions
- Updated Tagsets
On the ODS Markup page, several tagsets are updated and available for download.
- ODS for SAS 9.1
The paper A Soft Landing to ODS 9.1 (.pdf) explains differences in ODS between SAS 8.2 and SAS 9.1.
Related Links
- Formal Documentation
- Discussion Forums
- Training & Certification
- Recommended Reading
See recommended books from SAS Press.
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
For the most up-to-date information about SAS®9 releases, including SAS 9.1.3, see What's New. Interested customers can complete the SAS®9 request form. Or, for more information, call 1-800-727-0025 to speak with a SAS Representative.
New Features in SAS®9.2
These upcoming Base SAS enhancements were featured in a SUGI 31 demo. The following 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
New Features in SAS®9.1
Here are a few juicy morsels:
- 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 new Migration Community 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.