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NEW FEATURES IN FOUNDATION SAS 9.4

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Gary T. Ciampa

SAS® Solutions OnDemand Advanced Analytics Lab

Birmingham Users Group 2013


FOUNDATION SAS

9.4 FEATURES FOCUS ON SAS 9.4 FOUNDATION FEATURES

• Base SAS

• SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files

• SAS/CONNECT

• SAS/GRAPH

Agenda


Simplify Innovate Enable

Natural interfaces for

mobile & tablets

devices

Enhanced Security,

Consistency &

Optimizations

Performance

Compliance &

Extensibility

SAS 9.4 CORE THEMES


BASE SAS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES


BASE SAS DS2 AND FEDSQL LANGUAGE ELEMENTS

• DS2 Language Key Features

• Component of BASE SAS

• Integrates with the SAS DATA STEP

• ANSI SQL Types

• Well defined programming structure

• User defined methods

• FEDSQL Language Key Features

• ANSI SQL: 1999 compliant

• Enhanced data types, DECIMAL, INTEGER and

VARCHAR

• Expanded DBMS interfaces

• Parallel Processing


BASE SAS DS2

PROGRAMMING DS2 SEMANTICS AND COMPONENTS

• DS2 is complementary to data step

• Simplified execution framework which results in faster execution

• Threading semantics built into the language statements

• Object Oriented style, init(), run() and term() methods

• Supports FedSQL statements

• Expanded Data Types (precision, accuracy, compatibility)

• Benefits: performance, large data requirements, data types

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/ds2ref/66009/HTML/default/viewer.htm


DS2 SAMPLE SYNTAX

data _null_;

str = 'Hello World!';

put str;

run;

quit;

• SAS DATA STEP THAT WE KNOW AND LOVE.


DS2

proc ds2;

data _null_;

method init();

dcl varchar(16) str;

str = 'Hello World!';

put str;

end;

enddata;

run;

quit;

• SAS DATA STEP ENHANCED WITH DS2

SAMPLE SYNTAX


DS2 SUMMARY

The DS2 Procedure

• The DS2 procedure enables you to submit DS2 language statements from a

Base SAS session.

• In addition, DATA step logic can be transformed to run in environments where

DS2 is supported and the DATA step is not. These environments include the

following:

• SAS Federated Server

• SAS LASR Analytic Server

• SAS Embedded Process

• SAS Enterprise Miner

• SAS Decision Services


FEDSQL FEDSQLPROCEDURE

• FEDSQL from within BASE SAS, conforms to ANSI SQL 1999 standard

• SQL 1999 ANSI standard conformance allows queries in the native data type of the

DBMS. Native data types result in faster processing

• FedSQL supports multiple data source queries and aggregation of results

libname mybase base 'C:\Base';

libname myspde spde 'C:\Spde';

proc fedsql;

select * from mybase.product, myspde.sales;

quit;

• FedSQL distributes queries in parallel across multiple data sources

• FedSQL explicit pass-through facility enables connecting directly to the DBMS

• FedSQL implicit pass-through translates SQL into the native SQL language.


OUTPUT OUTPUT DELIVERY SYSTEM

SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System Enhancements

• ODS Report Writing Interface (RWI)

• create and manipulate predefined ODS objects within data step

• create highly customized output

• ODS grid layout for dynamic placement of objects within the layout

• SAS 9.4 Output Destinations

• Microsoft PowerPoint export

• EPUB

• HTML5

• Animate multi-page GIF images and SVG files by setting system options.

• New HTML default style was introduced for DMS in 9.3, now also default for

batch processing


SAS ODS

POWERPOINT


SAS ODS

POWERPOINT

TwoContent layout


SAS ODS EPUB

Output SAS

Reports to eBook

format to be

viewed on iPad &

iPhone


EPUB DESTINATION EXAMPLE

ods epub file="glm.epub" title="My First ODS EPUB E-book"

options(creator="SAS Programmer" description="My First ODS

EPUB Book" subject="PROC GLM" type="ODS EPUB book");

ods graphics on;

proc glm data=DrugTest;

class Drug;

model PostTreatment = Drug|PreTreatment;

run;

quit;

ods epub close;


EPUB DESTINATION SAMPLE OUTPUT


OUTPUT ODS STATISTICAL GRAPHICS

Enhancements to ODS Graphics provide

• Several new plot types, including axis tables that create an axis-aligned row

or column of textual data.

• The addition of numerous plot layout, panel, and axis options to control and

enhance the output of your graphs.

• A new sub-pixel rendering feature provides smoother curves for line charts

and more consistent spacing in bar charts.


OUTPUT ODS STATISTICAL GRAPHICS

Additional Information:

• The ODS Graphics products provide more options for fitting or splitting data

labels, curve labels, and axis tick values when there is not enough room to

display the text normally.

• The ODS Graphics Designer introduces an Auto Charts feature that

generates a variety of graphs automatically, based on your data.


AXISTABLE

STATEMENT AXIS ALIGNED TEXT VALUES


ENHANCED GRAPHS


SECURITY

• SAS/SECURE integrated into Base SAS.

• Uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 64-bit salt

• On-disk data encryption with associated keys

• SAS004 encryption style

• Metadata-bound libraries universally enforce metadata-layer permission

requirements for physical tables—regardless of how a user requests access

from SAS – closing the “LIBNAME hole”

• A metadata-bound library is a physical library that is tied to a corresponding

metadata object.

The AUTHLIB procedure is a new utility procedure that enables you to manage

metadata-bound libraries. (See Create Statement)


EXTENDED

ATTRIBUTES XATTR PARAMETERS FOR SAS TABLES AND VARIABLES

XATTR values are customized metadata for your SAS tables and variables

• Defined per table or variable

• Are organized into (name, value) pairs

• NUMERIC or CHARACTER properties

• PROC DATASETS to manage extended attributes

• SAS7BXAT table name


EXTENDED

ATTRIBUTES EXAMPLE

data mysales;

purchase = "car"; age = 37; cars = 3;

run;

proc datasets nolist ;

modify mysales;

xattr add ds mylabel=“This label can be as long

as I need it to be, with lots

of details about this data set.”;

xattr add var age ( mean = 30 )

cars ( maker = “Ferrari” models=4 );

run;

quit;


OTHER NEW

FEATURES

The Work library data sets and catalogs, and the values of global statements,

macro variables, and system options can be preserved between SAS

sessions.

The PRESENV Procedure

• The PRESENV procedure preserves all global statements and macro

variables in your SAS code from one SAS session to another.


OTHER NEW

FEATURES JSON EXPORT SUPPORT

SAS data sets can be written to an external file in JSON representation.

The JSON Procedure

• The JSON procedure reads data from a SAS data set and writes it to an

external file in JSON representation.


OTHER NEW

FEATURES STREAMING

SAS now processes arbitrary text that contains SAS macro specifications in an

input stream. The macro code in the stream can be expanded and stored in a

file.

The STREAM Procedure

• The STREAM procedure enables you to process an input stream that

consists of arbitrary text that can contain SAS macro specifications. It can

expand macro code and store it in a file.


OTHER NEW

FEATURES UTC TIME ZONE SUPPORT

• The SAS language now supports time zones based on Universal Time

Coordinate (UTC).

Data sets and catalog time stamps can specify the time based on a specific time

zone.

SAS can also determine the time for an area, taking into account Daylight Savings

Time.

• UTC Feature Support Functions

• TZONEID

• TZONENAME

• TZONEOFF

• TZONES2U

• TZONEU2S

• SAS OPTION TIMEZONE=


SAS/ACCESS TO PC FILE FORMATS


XLSX FILES MICROSOFT EXPORT ENHANCEMENTS

• Key goals to augment ability to promote data to business consumers

• Export directly to an XLSX workbook or worksheet

• Update or Replace Semantics

• Export XLSX files directly to UNIX

• DBMS=XLSX to distributed environments without requirement for PC Files

Server (UNIX, WIN)


EXAMPLE EXPORT SAS DATA SETS TO EXCEL 2010 WORKBOOK AND

REPLACE SHEETS

LIBNAME SDF V9 "&sasdir“;

PROC EXPORT DATA=SDF.INVOICE

FILE="&tmpdir.text.xlsx"

DBMS=XLSX REPLACE;

SHEET=’Invoice’;

RUN;

PROC EXPORT DATA=SDF.ORDERS

FILE="&tmpdir.text.xlsx”

DBMS=XLSX REPLACE;

SHEET=’Orders’;

RUN;


EXAMPLE EXPORT SAS DATA SETS TO EXCEL 2010 WORKBOOK AND

ADD A NEW SHEET

LIBNAME SDF V9 "&sasdir“;

PROC EXPORT DATA=SDF.INVOICE

FILE="&tmpdir.text.xlsx"

DBMS=XLSX;

SHEET=’Invoice_%2013’;

RUN;


SAS/CONNECT


SAS/CONNECT DISTRIBUTED SAS EXECUTION FRAMEWORK

• SAS/CONNECT ENHANCEMENTS

• CONNECTEVENTS system option

• Enhanced logging framework options, LOG4SAS

• PROC DATASETS XATTR support

• Client/Server Session Encoding

• SAS/Connect Spawner command options

new spawner start-up options,

a new spawner interface, and

a new spawner executable file that is the same for each operating environment


SAS/GRAPH


SAS/GRAPH SELECTED ENHANCEMENTS

• Unified default style for BATCH and DMS run modes (HTMLBLUE)

• New Graph styles (DOVE and RAVEN)

• The GIF device now supports RGBA color mode (transparency) and anti-

aliasing.

• The SVG and GIF devices now support animation.

• Maps data sets have been updated

• The GEOCODE procedure now supports non-U.S. street geocoding


SAS/GRAPH DEFAULT STYLE

New Default Style for batch mode


SAS/GRAPH NEW GRAPH STYLES


SAS/GRAPH ANTI-ALIASING

• The GIF device now supports RGBA color mode (transparency) and anti-

aliasing.

• SAS 9.3 PNG support incorporated anti-aliasing


SAS/GRAPH GIF ALPHA-TRANSPARENCY


SAS/GRAPH BETTER GIF ANIMATIONS


SAS/GRAPH MAPSGFK LIBRARY

• MAPS, MAPSSAS library still exist for compatibility

• MAPSGFK – additional map library format

• Long name formats; Accuracy Improvements; EastLong v. WestLong


SAS/GRAPH GEOCODE UPDATES

• The GEOCODE procedure now supports non-U.S. street geocoding


RESOURCES

• Online documentation:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/base/index.html

• ODS EPUB Destination

http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings13/368-2013.pdf

• ODS PowerPoint Destination













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