What's New in SAS/SHARE 9.3

SAS/SHARE 9.3 offers you greater flexibility when naming SAS library members (data set names, data views, and item stores) with the integration of the new VALIDMEMNAME= system option. The option extends the allowable characters in a SAS member name to international characters, characters supported by third-party databases, some special characters, and characters comprising names of up to 32 bytes in length.

This option has been enhanced in SAS/SHARE to allow for client-side control of extended library names, regardless of what is set on the server. The value that you specify for this option when connecting with a SAS/SHARE 9.3 client will take precedence over the server setting for that session.

The previously experimental option, THREADEDTCP, is now fully supported in the PROC SERVER statement for SAS 9.3. The option specifies whether the threaded version of the TCP access method and associated threaded infrastructure should be used when TCP/IP communication is specified. Threading enables multiple, concurrent reception and transmission activity when the server runs on SMP hardware.

A section has been added that describes how SAS syntax is represented in this document. This section describes how various text styles (for example, uppercase bold) and special characters (for example, angle brackets) are used to represent various parts of SAS language syntax.