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The 2001 SASware Ballot Survey Results
PART I SAS Language
*** General ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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2.0 2.0 418 1 provide a system option to control the
number of decimal places printed for any
output
3.0 3.0 390 4 provide the ability to set different
LINESIZE and PAGESIZE values for the SAS
log and SAS listing files
13.0 7.0 267 5 add the ability to independently center,
right justify, and/or left justify a TITLE
and a FOOTNOTE statement
76.5 22.0 109 2 provide a functionality similar to AUTOEXEC
that allows a set of code to be executed at
termination of the SAS session
92.5 27.5 98 7 add #BYVAL functionality to the FOOTNOTE
statements
165.5 44.5 29 3 add an FTP access method option in the
FILENAME statement similar to the TERMSTR=
option that the SOCKET access method has
in order to specify what character to use
at the end of a line
174.0 47.0 26 6 provide the ability to set the number
of lines that will be read and executed
when using %INCLUDE
*** DATA Step ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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15.5 8.0 252 14 add a system option to control the behavior
when duplicate observations occur on
multiple data sets in a MERGE step
29.0 10.0 178 8 provide the number of records read or
written to external file(s) as user-
accessible information
39.0 14.0 158 15 provide a data set option to keep/move
labels from the input data set to the
output data set
81.0 23.0 105 10 add an option to cause the DATA step to
abend rather than to generate a note when
an uninitialized variable is encountered
89.5 26.0 100 9 provide the ability to use the special list
variables _NUMERIC_ and _CHARACTER_ in the
PUT statement
111.5 32.0 69 13 create reserved 'special missing' variables
such as _MISSING_
132.0 36.0 51 11 provide an OUTVAR= option for the OUTPUT
statement to work similarly to the FILEVAR=
option of the FILE statement
193.5 49.0 19 12 allow global statements in the source
code for DATA step views
*** Functions ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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9.0 4.0 290 17 provide a function to return the value of
a variable, given the variable name as a
character string
36.0 13.0 170 18 provide a function to calculate the MEDIAN
value of a list of arguments
51.0 16.0 142 16 add an option to the ROUND function to
round down, round up, or truncate values
114.5 34.0 65 19 create a new function similar to INTNX that
would return an exact increment
*** Informats and Formats ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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33.5 12.0 172 28 provide a WORDDATE informat to read date
values in the form of July 19, 2000
48.0 15.0 143 33 provide an informat and format to read and
write date values in the form of
yymmmdd or yyyymmmdd, with the option of
including separators
61.0 17.0 127 23 provide an MMYYw. informat to read month
and year values with a width of 4 or 5 and
create SAS date values that use the first
day of the month for the day portion
84.0 24.0 104 29 provide a format to display dates in the
form of year/quarter, such as 2000/Q1
86.5 25.0 103 21 provide a format to write time in military
form with leading zeros for times before
10:00 a.m.
92.5 27.5 98 22 provide a ZIPCODE format to display the
10-character zip code including the dash
137.5 37.0 47 24 print a note in the SAS log to indicate
when an overflow has occurred for the
PDw.d, ZDw.d, IBw.d, or PIBw.d formats
145.0 39.0 42 30 provide a format to produce significant
figures (not significant digits) without
rounding the value, so that values with
or without decimals are displayed with
the same number of figures
147.0 40.0 41 27 add a format and an informat for latitude
and longitude data in the form of
dddmmsN where ddd stands for degrees
(positive or negative), mm is minutes,
and sN is seconds in BESTw. format
153.0 42.0 38 26 provide a numeric format that will "back
round" a value through each decimal place,
up until the specified width, rather than
use only the digit that immediately follows
the designated roundoff digit
165.5 44.5 29 32 change the way the BESTw. format displays
values so it contains the most significant
digits
169.5 46.0 28 31 provide an informat to read time values in
ISO format where periods separate the
values instead of colons
180.5 48.0 24 20 provide an informat and format to read/
write zoned decimal values produced on
ASCII systems by other software vendors
such as Micro Focus Cobol
196.5 50.0 17 25 provide formats such as WORDFw. and WORDSw.
to convert numeric values to words for
languages other than English
*** WHERE Statement ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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1.0 1.0 430 34 provide the ability to display the WHERE
clause in printed output
64.5 18.0 123 35 add an option to control whether a NOTE
appears in the SAS log when there is a
WHERE statement
*** Display Manager System(including text editor) ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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10.0 5.0 285 36 add a warning dialog box to prompt whether
to replace, append, or cancel every time
the FILE==>SAVE menu item is chosen to save
a file in the Program Editor
11.0 6.0 272 38 allow a file saved by using the FILE
command on the command line of the Program
Editor window to appear in the list of
recently used files
24.0 9.0 215 44 add special color coding for DO and END
statements in the Enhanced Editor window
31.5 11.0 176 45 add special color coding for macro variable
references in the Enhanced Editor window
68.5 19.0 117 50 provide the ability to print text with
color attributes in color when the text is
sent to a color print device
70.0 20.0 115 40 provide a menu item to clear out all memory
and the SAS log
75.0 21.0 111 37 provide a utility for searching catalog
entries using keywords
97.0 29.0 96 46 add a column ruler to the Enhanced Editor
window, similar to the COLS line command in
the Program Editor
106.5 30.0 74 43 add a SUBMITBLOCK command to submit all
code from the current cursor position up to
the start of the next PROC or DATA step
108.0 31.0 72 39 extend the 256 single-line character limit
in the Program Editor to allow raw text
file editing using the Text Editor commands
113.0 33.0 67 49 provide the ability to override the default
action of bringing the Output window to the
top when data is written to it
128.0 35.0 53 41 provide an "ALTSAVE" option to
automatically save the contents of the
Editor, Log, and Output windows to a
specified location
144.0 38.0 43 48 change the right mouse click functionality
in the tree view of the Explorer window so
that it selects the item and displays the
pop-up menu for that item simultaneously
152.0 41.0 39 42 provide the ability to hide lines of code
so that commands and line commands will not
apply to them
157.0 43.0 33 47 add the "Find" pop-up menu to the Libraries
element of the Explorer window
PART II Base SAS Procedures
*** All Procedures ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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22.0 5.0 221 51 provide the ability to use -L, -C, and -R
with formats in a FORMAT statement to left
align, center, and right align
40.5 10.5 156 53 provide an option to allow the page number
to be reset when a BY value changes
43.0 12.0 151 52 provide an option to produce a header line
when the input data set contains no
observations
81.0 19.5 105 54 add an option to clear all titles after
the first page of output
*** PROC CORR ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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92.5 22.0 98 55 provide an option to output correlations
and p-values in a list structure rather
than a matrix structure
*** PROC FORMAT ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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31.5 8.0 176 58 provide a front end to simplify the
creation and editing of user-written
formats
56.5 15.0 134 56 enhance the FMTLIB option so that
information on all format libraries listed
in the FMTSEARCH= option will be printed
117.0 28.5 64 57 provide JUST and UPCASE functionality
for the VALUE statement
117.0 28.5 64 59 provide the ability to determine if a
format is located in the libraries
referenced by the FMTSEARCH option and/or
the LIBRARY libref
*** PROC FREQ ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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18.0 3.0 231 61 implement the PRELOADFMT option to preload
all formats for the variables in the TABLES
statement, as in PROC MEANS
35.0 9.0 171 60 add an option to the TABLE statement to
output the number of unique values for a
variable
150.0 35.5 40 62 provide an option for normalizing the
weight
*** PROC MEANS/PROC SUMMARY ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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51.0 13.0 142 63 provide an option to specify a width for
the column that contains the variable
labels so that the labels can wrap within
that width
*** PROC PRINT ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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21.0 4.0 224 65 provide an option to insert a blank line
after every nth line
23.0 6.0 218 67 provide the ability to display the label
of the BY variable on the summary line
66.0 17.0 120 64 provide an option to force a page eject if
all observations in the current BY group
will not fit on the remainder of the page
105.0 25.0 76 66 provide an option to exclude variables
from the BY line if they are listed both
in the BY statement and in the ID statement
*** PROC RANK ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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150.0 35.5 40 69 provide the ability for the grouping
scores to go from 1 to n, rather than from
0 to n-1
154.5 37.0 36 68 provide the ability to weight ranks with
a WEIGHT statement
*** PROC REPORT ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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81.0 19.5 105 73 provide the ability to print the word
'CONTINUED' when a report spans pages and
to print 'END' on the last page
88.0 21.0 102 74 provide the ability to define labels or
column names instead of column numbers in
an output data set that was created using
an ACROSS variable
99.0 23.0 92 70 provide the ability to suppress summary
lines when there is only one observation
for a group
132.0 31.0 51 75 provide the ability to use break-options
of SKIP, OL, UL, DUL, and DOL when
requesting ODS output
142.0 32.5 44 72 provide the ability to group by computed
columns
147.0 34.0 41 71 add the ability to dynamically align text
from LINE statements with report columns
*** PROC SORT ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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4.0 1.0 360 76 add an option to output observations
deleted by the NODUP or NODUPKEY option to
an alternate data set
6.0 2.0 316 77 provide the ability to sort by formatted
value
*** PROC SQL ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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62.5 16.0 126 87 trim the trailing blanks in the macro
variable created by the INTO :macvar
syntax
68.5 18.0 117 81 add SORTEDBY information to
DICTIONARY.TABLES
104.0 24.0 77 78 allow the automatic conversion of variables
from character to numeric when performing
arithmetic expressions in a query
109.5 26.5 70 83 provide a MEDIAN summary function
109.5 26.5 70 86 allow a range to be specified when listing
values for the IN operator
125.5 30.0 55 80 add a variable to the DICTIONARY.TABLES
dictionary table that gives the size of the
data set in bytes or megabtyes
142.0 32.5 44 82 provide character versions of the MIN and
MAX functions
165.5 38.0 29 85 add the ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS
extensions
187.0 39.0 22 79 allow calculated columns to inherit the
default format of the column used in the
calculation (for one-column calculations)
199.5 40.0 14 84 create a pseudo-column that returns
a number indicating the sequence in which
a row was selected from a table or set of
joined tables
*** PROC TABULATE ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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28.0 7.0 181 89 provide the ability for column widths to
be independent of the format widths with a
WIDTH= option
40.5 10.5 156 88 add a SPLIT= option
54.0 14.0 138 90 provide the ability to automatically scale
the column width to the length of the data
values
PART III SAS Macro Facility
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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14.0 1.0 260 94 allow the IN operator to be used in a macro
15.5 2.0 252 91 add line numbers to MPRINT output so that
line numbers are continuous in the SAS log
46.0 3.0 148 92 provide the ability to delete macro
variables
53.0 4.0 141 95 provide a macro variable that contains the
text of every error or warning in the log
59.0 5.0 130 97 enhance the MPRINT output to show the
nesting of macros, for example,
MPRINT(C.B.A) sourceline;
84.0 6.0 104 96 issue a note confirming the successful
compilation of a macro
135.5 7.0 48 98 provide the ability to capture the value
of the CPU time generated by the FULLSTIMER
option
142.0 8.0 44 93 add a SOURCE option to use with the STORE
option to cause the source code to be saved
to the same catalog as the compiled macro
PART IV Output Delivery System (ODS)
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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7.0 1.0 314 99 provide the ability to display and print
text and graphics on the same page
128.0 2.0 53 101 provide the ability to customize the label
in the table of pages
206.5 3.0 11 100 provide the ability to add tags to the
frame file
PART V SAS/GRAPH Software
*** New Procedures ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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103.0 6.0 80 102 provide a procedure to generate a Venn
Diagram
*** Global Statements(AXIS, LEGEND, SYMBOL, etc.) ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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89.5 3.0 100 103 provide the ability to specify only the
start point, the end point, or the BY
increment when specifying the order in an
AXIS statement
101.5 5.0 84 104 provide the ability to order axis values
based on the order in which the data is
read
111.5 7.0 69 105 provide an option to allow the dynamic
specification of uneven intervals between
tick marks on a sequential axis range
139.5 11.0 45 106 provide the ability to control the height
of the symbols for each entry in the
LEGEND individually
*** Image Extensions ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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165.5 13.0 29 107 provide the ability to import and save
an image as a GRSEG entry in a catalog
in noninteractive or batch mode
*** PROC GCHART ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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17.0 1.0 234 108 implement a UNIFORM option to uniformly
scale axes across BY groups
25.0 2.0 213 109 provide an option to allow the user to
specify the order of subgroup bars
92.5 4.0 98 110 provide an option to draw +/- one STD or
one STDERR of the MEAN
150.0 12.0 40 111 provide an option to position the axis on
either side of the chart
*** PROC GPLOT ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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120.5 8.0 60 113 provide the ability to create horizontal
box plots
123.5 9.0 56 112 provide an option in the PLOT statement to
assign a GROUP variable in order to
generate a group axis
*** PROC G3D ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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125.5 10.0 55 114 provide support for AXIS statements
PART VI SAS/EIS Software
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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38.0 1.0 163 115 provide the ability to generate tab-
delimited Excel files
48.0 2.0 143 119 provide a way to save multidimensional
reports to RTF format or to an MSWord file
156.0 3.0 35 116 provide the ability to display a single
overall TOTAL column when there are
multiple hierarchies or columns in a
dimension rather than TOTAL columns for
each individual column value
188.5 4.0 21 118 provide a weighted average statistic for
computed values
190.5 5.0 20 117 provide a means for displaying all
possible crossings in a dimension
rather than just the crossings that
actually exist
PART VII SAS/MDDB Server
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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56.5 1.0 134 120 enhance the Open Olap Server to allow a
given category variable to exist in more
than one display dimension
PART VIII SAS/STAT Software
*** All Procedures ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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5.0 1.0 320 121 calculate confidence intervals for all
appropriate parameters
12.0 2.0 270 122 provide more extensive nonparametric
statistics and tests, including multiple
comparisons
43.0 4.0 151 123 provide power analysis and sample-size
determination in applicable hypothesis
tests
114.5 7.0 65 124 provide one-tailed tests where appropriate
128.0 9.0 53 125 add a NORMALIZE option to all procedures
having a WEIGHT statement to normalize
the weights to sum to the actual sample
size
*** New Procedures ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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20.0 3.0 225 127 add tree-based C&RT and CHAID methodology
84.0 6.0 104 126 provide a procedure for multivariate
outlier detection based on robust methods
130.0 10.0 52 128 add a sample survey procedure for logistic
models
*** PROC BOXPLOT ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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122.0 8.0 58 129 add options to clip extreme outliers so
that boxplots are more readable when
outliers are present
*** PROC GLM/PROC ANOVA ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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177.5 13.5 25 130 provide multiple comparisons using the
SLICE option
199.5 17.0 14 131 provide an option in the LSMEANS and MEANS
statements to give Hsu's MCB (multiple
comparison with the best) test
*** PROC LIFETEST ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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165.5 12.0 29 134 add the ability to perform pairwise and/or
multiple comparisons of homogeneity among
strata
196.5 16.0 17 133 include additional tests of homogeneity of
the survival curves across strata to the
STRATA statement
202.5 18.0 13 132 add the ability to produce cumulative
incidence plots
*** PROC PHREG ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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193.5 15.0 19 135 add a WEIGHT statement for incorporating
case weights
*** PROC REG ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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76.5 5.0 109 136 provide a test for lack-of-fit
132.0 11.0 51 138 provide a BOUNDS statement so parameters
can be restricted to a range of values
177.5 13.5 25 137 implement an all possible regression
selection method based on PRESS statistics
PART IX SAS/ETS Software
*** Time Series Forecasting System ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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43.0 2.0 151 139 provide a means to interrupt the automatic
model fitting process
*** PROC ARIMA ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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37.0 1.0 167 140 allow restrictions to be imposed on the
model parameters
162.0 3.0 30 142 support a TREND= option in the ESTIMATE
statement to automatically build and
include a time-trend variable in the model
198.0 6.0 16 141 support an option to compute and output
additional statistics of fit, such as MAPE
R-square, and Theil statistics
*** PROC AUTOREG ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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206.5 8.0 11 143 provide an INEST= option to name an input
data set that provides starting values for
any or all parameters in a model
*** PROC MODEL ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
RANK RANK VOTES NUMBER
177.5 4.0 25 144 support BY-group processing with the
PARMSDATA= and ESTDATA= data sets so that
different starting values can be specified
for each BY group
*** PROC SPECTRA ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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209.5 10.5 8 145 support the Lomb-Scargle periodogram for
unequally spaced data
*** PROC SYSLIN ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
RANK RANK VOTES NUMBER
180.5 5.0 24 146 compute the value of the log-likelihood
function
*** PROC TSCSREG ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
RANK RANK VOTES NUMBER
202.5 7.0 13 147 provide a likelihood ratio test for random
effects and the Breusch-Pagan Lagrange
multiplier test for the random effects
models
208.0 9.0 10 149 provide an option to specify whether the
one way fixed or random effect applies to
the cross section variable or the time
series variable
209.5 10.5 8 148 allow the random or fixed models to be fit
when a cross section or time point has
only one observation
PART X SAS/OR Software
*** New Procedures ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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74.0 1.0 112 150 provide an Internet-based client/server
application for scheduling and project
management
*** PROC NLP ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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159.0 2.0 32 151 provide heuristic algorithms such as tabu
search, simulated annealing, and genetic
algorithms
PART XI SAS/QC Software
*** New Procedures ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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86.5 1.0 103 152 provide a procedure for analysis of means
*** PROC CAPABILITY ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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184.0 2.5 23 153 provide overlaid and comparative versions
of all graphical displays
184.0 2.5 23 154 allow multiple distributions from the same
family to be plotted on one histogram
PART XII SAS/IML Software
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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71.5 1.5 114 159 implement BY-group processing
71.5 1.5 114 162 provide more flexibility in formatting
matrices on PRINT and PUT statements
73.0 3.0 113 155 support sparse matrices
106.5 4.0 74 160 support multidimensional matrices (beyond
two dimensions)
154.5 5.0 36 156 add an efficient function to sort a matrix
184.0 6.0 23 161 allow modules or functions to call
themselves recursively
190.5 7.0 20 158 add a function to create an upper or lower
triangular matrix directly from another
matrix or vector
202.5 8.0 13 157 implement a method to name and access
matrices x1, x2, x3,... without having to
use CALL EXECUTE
PART XIII SAS/INSIGHT Software
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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26.0 1.0 198 163 provide the ability to record and replay
all user actions
100.0 2.0 90 167 provide the ability to do complex
subsetting of data based on the values
of two or more variables
117.0 3.0 64 165 provide the ability to cut and paste
135.5 4.0 48 164 provide the ability to add legends to
charts and plots
139.5 5.0 45 166 provide statistics and plots for
multivariate outlier detection
161.0 6.0 31 169 provide the ability to specify simple IF or
WHEN clauses when creating new variables
171.5 7.0 27 170 provide the ability to name a new data set
something other than WORK.A
188.5 8.0 21 171 provide an option to spread graphs out
vertically or horizontally
205.0 9.0 12 168 provide the ability to capture SAS/INSIGHT
settings for a window that can be used
when running PROC INSIGHT
PART XIV SAS/LAB Software
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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67.0 1.0 119 172 add nonparametric statistics
PART XV Data File Management
*** General ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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51.0 1.0 142 174 provide the ability to specify data set
options in PROC IMPORT and PROC EXPORT
58.0 2.0 133 173 provide the ability to establish a
secondary SASWORK area to allow the program
to continue processing when the current
WORK location runs out of space
*** Import/Export Wizard ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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134.0 3.0 50 175 provide the ability to retain the file
format last specified for repetitive use of
the wizard with the same file types
*** SQL Query Window ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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184.0 4.0 23 176 replace the current SQL Query Window
interface with one similar to the JQuery
tool used in AppDev Studio and WEB EIS
PART XVI Remote Library Services
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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55.0 1.0 135 177 provide the ability to handle short
numerics across cross-architecture host
types
PART XVII SAS/CONNECT Software
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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48.0 1.0 143 178 add a compression feature to decrease the
amount of time required to transmit
objects on the network
95.5 2.0 97 179 update the output entry titles in the
RESULTS window to contain specific
information that describes the procedure
used to create the output during a remote
submit
PART XVIII SAS/SHARE Software
*** General ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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165.5 2.0 29 181 provide the ability for the SASAUTH and
SASPARM routines to use third-party
authentication and permission-checking
software
177.5 3.0 25 180 provide a Perl DBI interface to SQL
queries against SAS data via a multiuser
server
*** PROC SERVER ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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64.5 1.0 123 182 add the ability to disconnect a user from a
SAS server after a specified period of
inactivity
PART XIX SAS/ACCESS Software
*** All Interfaces ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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123.5 4.0 56 183 support "commit and roll back" transaction-
level processing verbs within DATA step
MODIFY processing when used against
relational databases such as ORACLE or
SYBASE
202.5 5.0 13 184 provide a trace option that shows whether
or not BULKCOPY is being used for all
database systems that support bulk copy
*** Interface to PC File Formats ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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19.0 1.0 229 185 provide the ability to specify a worksheet
name when creating Excel files from SAS
data sets
33.5 2.0 172 186 display a warning message when
there is data in an Excel field, but SAS
reads it in as missing data
101.5 3.0 84 187 add a SHEET= statement to the EXPORT
procedure
PART XX SAS/Warehouse Administrator
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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62.5 1.0 126 188 allow the ability to change the order of
columns displayed in the columns tab of
mapping properties
PART XXI SAS/IntrNet Software
*** Application Dispatcher ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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60.0 1.0 129 189 provide an option for the Application Load
Manager to display a list of requests that
are awaiting execution
193.5 2.0 19 190 provide the ability for administrators to
specify site-specific BROKER error
messages
PART XXII SAS System for Mainframes
*** SAS System under OS/390 ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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98.0 1.0 95 193 add a REPLYTO= option to the EMAIL access
method to allow a reply to be sent to
someone other than the person running the
job
147.0 2.0 41 191 provide a check to see if a file is
already allocated to a libref before
allowing a FILENAME statement, FILE
command, or anything else to reference it
as an external flat file
212.0 4.0 6 192 provide the ability to send messages
concerning product expiration to the JES
log
*** PROC SOURCE ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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159.0 3.0 32 194 provide the ability to read and write
records longer than 80 bytes
PART XXIII IT Service Vision Software
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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78.5 1.0 106 195 provide the ability to create a dynamic
graph from a Web browser and drill down
into the raw data that produced the graph
212.0 2.5 6 196 add the ability to automatically update the
sitelib with new holidays, by country
212.0 2.5 6 198 provide the ability to create values at the
summary level similar to the MINID and
MAXID statistics in PROC MEANS
214.0 4.0 1 197 add the ability to define more than 999
systems for input filtering
PART XXIV SAS System under OpenVMS
*** General ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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171.5 1.0 27 199 provide transparent access of catalogs and
catalog entries between OpenVMS for VAX and
Alpha host systems
PART XXV SAS System for UNIX
*** General ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
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30.0 1.0 177 201 add a system option to limit the amount of
workspace used by a SAS process
119.0 2.0 63 203 add an option to allow a local SAS help
system (that does not require a Web
browser) to be used
120.5 3.0 60 200 provide support to fully utilize SMP boxes
159.0 4.0 32 202 provide the capability for data set names
to be stored in mixed case
169.5 5.0 28 206 add a -WORKPERM option to specify the
permissions to assign to the SASWORK
library
184.0 6.0 23 205 add the ability to save the size attribute
of the Open window
193.5 7.0 19 204 add the ability to register SAS in the
adminstration tool that is available in
the common desktop environment (CDE)
PART XXVI SAS System for PCs
*** General ***
OVERALL PART # ITEM
RANK RANK VOTES NUMBER
8.0 1.0 295 207 implement an option to specify the
directory to which all saved files should
reside, regardless of where a file was
last opened
27.0 2.0 183 209 allow the SAS System Viewer to display
values using user-defined formats
45.0 3.0 149 208 add cut-and-paste capabilities on the
command lines and in the FSEDIT window
78.5 4.0 106 210 provide an option that will allow users to
save output as a text file with only
line feeds at the end of each line
95.5 5.0 97 211 add a push button control to the Find
window to switch to the Replace window
137.5 6.0 47 212 provide the ability to use SYNCSORT
174.0 7.5 26 213 add the ability to read VSAM files
174.0 7.5 26 214 enhance the Help text for the installation
of Internet Explorer Version 5 so it
explains that Internet Explorer Version 4
will be replaced
Distribution of Respondent Job Functions:
17% Manager/Staff End User Department 28% SAS Software Representative
42% Applications Programmer 32% SAS Software Consultant
18% Systems Analyst 19% SAS Software Training Coordinator
9% Systems Manager 34% Statistician
21% Manager/Staff Information Center
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