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Table o Contents

About the SAS®

9.2 release ......................................................................... 1Why upgrade to SAS® 9.2? .......................................................................... 1

What is included in SAS® 9.2? ..................................................................... 1

New sotware in SAS® 9.2 ........................................................................... 2

SAS® Data Surveyor or Clickstream Data ........................................... 2

SAS® Data Surveyor or Salesorce.com .............................................. 3

SAS® Scoring Accelerator or Teradata ................................................ 3

Enhancements to Base SAS® sotware ....................................................... 3

Enhancements to SAS/GRAPH® sotware ................................................... 4

ODS Statistical Graphics ............................................................................. 5

Enhancements to data access sotware ..................................................... 5

New in-database eature improves perormance ................................ 6

Architectural, management and security enhancements ......................... 6

Architectural enhancements in SAS® 9.2 ............................................ 6

System management eatures in SAS® 9.2 ......................................... 7

Security eatures in SAS® 9.2 .............................................................. 8

Enhancements to analytics sotware ......................................................... 9

SAS® Enterprise Miner™ sotware ....................................................... 9

SAS/ETS® sotware ............................................................................ 10

SAS/Genetics™ sotware .................................................................... 10

SAS/IML® sotware ............................................................................ 11

SAS/OR® sotware .............................................................................. 11

SAS/QC® sotware .............................................................................. 11

SAS/STAT® sotware........................................................................... 12

Enhancements to BI and data integration client applications (general). 12

Enhancements to SAS® Business Intelligence sotware clients .............. 14

SAS® Add-In or Microsot Ofce ...................................................... 14

SAS® BI Dashboard ........................................................................... 14

SAS®

Inormation Delivery Portal ....................................................... 15SAS® Inormation Map Studio ............................................................ 15

SAS® OLAP Cube Studio ..................................................................... 16

SAS® Web Report Studio .................................................................... 16




Enhancements to SAS® Data Integration sotware clients....................... 17

SAS® Data Integration Studio ............................................................ 17

Other data integration sotware enhancements ................................ 18

Enhancements to SAS® Enterprise Guide® ................................................ 19

Installing, confguring and migrating to SAS® 9.2.................................... 20

Installation and confguration enhancements .................................. 20

Running SAS® 9.2 and SAS® 9.1.3 on the same machine .................. 20

Moving metadata and other content to SAS® 9.2 ............................. 21




About the SAS® 9.2 release

SAS 9.2 was released to customers in two phases. The rst phase, released

in March 2008, included Base SAS and products such as SAS/ACCESS®,

SAS/GRAPH®, SAS/STAT®, SAS/Genetics™, SAS/ETS®, SAS/IML®, SAS/QC®

and SAS/OR®. The second phase was released in February 2009. This phase

included SAS Business Intelligence and SAS Data Integration sotware, SAS

server and middle-tier components, and updates or the sotware released

in the rst phase. Additional products and solutions that use the SAS server

and middle-tier components are being released on an ongoing basis.

Why upgrade to SAS® 9.2?

By upgrading to SAS 9.2, you will be able to take advantage o the large

number o new eatures and perormance improvements that are included in this

release. In addition, you will be able to take advantage o uture enhancements,

maintenance updates and new SAS products and solutions that run with the

updated sotware. Upgrading will also keep your SAS sotware compatible with

operating systems and other third-party sotware products as they are upgraded.

I your current conguration includes a SAS Metadata Server, tools are provided

or migrating your metadata rom SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.2. See “Moving metadata

and other content to SAS® 9.2” (page 20).

The eatures and enhancements in SAS 9.2 are summarized in this paper. For

inormation about ordering SAS 9.2, please contact your account executive.

What is included in SAS® 9.2?

The majority o the enhancements included in SAS 9.2 are a direct response to

requests rom our existing customer base. Base SAS 9.2 includes more analytical

and graphical capabilities, such as Output Delivery System (ODS) StatisticalGraphics and SAS/GRAPH support or ODS styles. New and enhanced eatures

in SAS/STAT, SAS/Genetics, SAS/ETS, SAS/IML, SAS/QC and SAS/OR sotware

enable you to perorm a wider range o statistical and analytical tasks. With the

enhancements to SAS Data Integration Studio (the GUI component included

with SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server and SAS Data Integration Server),

you can create and debug jobs more eciently. In the SAS Business Intelligence

applications, all user interaces have been updated to increase productivity

and usability.

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SAS 9.2 includes signicant perormance improvements through better use o the

underlying hardware and sotware. The improvements include more widespread use

o 64-bit computing, as well as an increased ability to use and manage grids. Support

or multithreaded processing has been extended across the platorm, rom SAS

procedures to SAS servers to grid enablement. In addition, new in-database eatures

substantially improve perormance by moving analytic tasks closer to your data.

For congurations that use the SAS Metadata Server, SAS 9.2 provides a

substantially higher level o integration with IT inrastructures. Management o SAS

servers is improved through a new logging ramework, a new management interace

in SAS Management Console and integration with industry-standard monitoring

sotware. Security eatures have been enhanced to be more robust and IT-riendly.

For all types o congurations, you can now download SAS sotware automatically

through the Internet. In addition, sotware installation and conguration is signicantly

easier and aster. The new SAS Deployment Wizard prompts or user entries and

checks or required sotware at the beginning so that the rest o the process can run

silently and unattended.

For more inormation on SAS 9.2, including comprehensive What’s New inormation,

please visit http://support.sas.com/documentation/whatsnew/index.html. The

product pages on the SAS Support Customer Web site also are a useul reerence

or SAS users: http://support.sas.com/sotware/products/index.html.

New sotware in SAS®

9.2

SAS® Data Surveyor or Clickstream Data

SAS Data Surveyor or Clickstream Data automates the extraction o useul

inormation rom large volumes o clickstream data collected in Web logs. It includes

templates or common process fows that are used to cleanse and enrich the data.

You can customize the template jobs or your own Web logs and outputs.

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SAS® Data Surveyor or Salesorce.com

SAS 9.2 includes a new data surveyor that gives you access to data rom

Salesorce.com customer relationship management (CRM) sotware. This datasurveyor is provided through a partnership with Composite Sotware. The new

Composite Sotware unctionality is also incorporated into data surveyors or other

CRM and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, including PeopleSot, Oracle

Applications and Siebel.

In previous releases, SAS integrated data rom these systems by accessing the

underlying database with SAS/ACCESS sotware. The new data surveyors in this

release use the vendor API and certied interaces, and they comply with the security

o each application.

SAS® Scoring Accelerator or Teradata

SAS Scoring Accelerator or Teradata enables you to translate scoring models

created in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ into unctions that are executed directly within the

Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). This product enhances the perormance

o model scoring, resulting in aster processing o analytic models.

Enhancements to Base SAS® sotware

Base SAS 9.2 includes many enhancements. The SAS customer support Web

site, http://support.sas.com/sotware/92, provides more inormation about

enhancements or the SAS language, including PROC SQL, PROC SORT, PROC

REPORT and a host o other procedures. Here are just a ew o the enhancements

current customers may nd especially interesting:

The option to capture inormation about input, output and use o macro symbols•

rom a SAS job while it is running. The SAS Code Analyzer runs existing SAS

programs, executing them while generating metadata about the SAS job that

is emitted via comments. Using the new SCAPROC procedure, the SAS Code

Analyzer captures inormation about the job step, I/O inormation (such as le

dependencies) and macro symbol usage inormation rom a running SAS job. Thenew checkpoint and restart modes allow you to resume prematurely terminated

SAS batch jobs at the next DATA or PROC step.

SAS language updates. You can now write your own unctions either in C, C++•

or the SAS language and use them in a SAS program. External unctions that are

written in C or C++ can be used in SAS programs ater they have been registered

using the PROTO procedure.

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Enhanced ability to read a series o like-named SAS data sets. Our users asked•

or this and we’ve delivered by letting you use the dash list or colon list syntax.

This is the same as how you would speciy a list o link-named variables in a

DROP or KEEP statement. In addition, the perormance o the IN operator hasbeen greatly improved by using a binary tree lookup.

Enhancements to SAS/GRAPH® sotware

The changes and enhancements or SAS/GRAPH 9.2 are very extensive. Highlights

include:

The new SAS/GRAPH statistical graphics suite provides a new set o procedures,•

a new language and a graph editor specically designed or creating and editing

statistical graphics. The new SGRENDER procedure helps you create customized

displays by enabling you to write your own templates with the Graph Template

Language (GTL). For more inormation on the GTL, reer to “SAS/GRAPH 9.2:

Graph Template Language User’s Guide, Second Edition,” which is available

online at http://support.sas.com.

All SAS/GRAPH procedures now support ODS styles or all devices.•

SAS/GRAPH now automatically selects an appropriate device and style or all•

open destinations.

SAS/GRAPH now provides TrueColor support, which allows over 16 million colors•

in a single image.

The new Network Visualization Workshop enables you to visualize and investigate•

the patterns and relationships hidden in network data (node-link data).

The new GKPI procedure generates several key perormance indicators.•

The new GTILE procedure generates tile charts.•

The new GEOCODE procedure enables you to add geographic coordinates•

to data sets that contain location inormation such as mailing addresses or to

perorm geolocation with non-address location data.

The new GINSIDE procedure determines which polygon in a map data set•

contains the geographic coordinates in your input data set.

All procedures now support graphics output lenames up to 256 characters long.•

The new Scalable Vector Graphics devices enable you to generate SVG output.•

Several new map data sets, as well as new eature data sets, have been added to•

the MAPS library. Several existing map data sets have been updated.

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ODS Statistical Graphics

ODS Statistical Graphics, experimental in SAS 9.1, is production in SAS 9.2. (It is

included with SAS/GRAPH sotware and suraced in many SAS modules.) More than

60 statistical procedures in SAS/STAT, SAS/ETS, SAS/QC and Base SAS have been

modied to use ODS Statistical Graphics unctionality. The procedures now produce

graphs as automatically as they produce tables. In addition, three new SAS/GRAPH

procedures (SGPLOT, SGPANEL and SGSCATTER) use this unctionality to produce

plots or exploratory data analysis and customized statistical displays. We’ve

extended the unctionality o ODS Statistical Graphics with:

New graph types and ODS styles that are designed or statistical work.•

Support or the LISTING destination.•

The new ODS Graphics Editor, which is a point-and-click interace or enhancing•

titles, labels and other graph eatures. You can also add eatures such as textannotation or data points.

Facilities or modiying graphs by changing their underlying templates, which are•

supplied by SAS and are written in the Graph Template Language. You can also

use the GTL to create your own highly customized statistical graphics.

Enhancements to data access sotware

SAS/ACCESS sotware supports additional operating environments or existing•

DBMSs.

Other new eatures include new or enhanced unctions or the SQL_•

FUNCTIONS= LIBNAME option, a new SQL_FUNCTIONS_COPY= LIBNAME

option or specic database management systems (DBMS), and new or enhanced

hyperbolic, trigonometric and dynamic SQL dictionary unctions.

For most DBMSs, you can now create temporary tables using DBMS-specic•

syntax with the new DBMSTEMP= LIBNAME option.

In SAS/ACCESS to HP Neoview, you can use the new BULKEXTRACT=•

LIBNAME option along with new data set options or bulk loading and extracting.

SAS 9.2 includes new data surveyors or ERP and CRM systems. In previous•

releases, SAS integrated data rom these systems by accessing the underlying

database with SAS/ACCESS sotware. In this release, SAS has partnered with

Composite Sotware to provide data integration with ERP and CRM systems rom

PeopleSot, Oracle Applications, Siebel and Salesorce.com. These new data

surveyors use the vendor API and certied interaces, and they comply with the

security o the application.

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New in-database eature improves perormance

A new in-database eature in the SAS/ACCESS Interace to Teradata or SAS 9.2•

substantially improves perormance by moving analytic tasks closer to your data.

You can publish custom ormats, as well as most ormats that SAS provides, so

that they run inside the Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). A SAS_PUT()

unction, which emulates the traditional SAS PUT unction and supports the use o

SAS ormats inside the database, is created and registered or use in SQL queries.

Architectural, management and security enhancements

SAS 9.2 brings SAS Business Intelligence, SAS Data Integration and other metadata-

based sotware to substantially higher levels o usability, scalability and integration

with IT inrastructures.

The new SAS Deployment Wizard automatically congures all o your SAS servers.•

It can also congure your Web server and deploy the SAS Web applications i you

choose this option. The number o manual conguration steps has been greatly

reduced, as well as the number o user accounts.

Management o SAS servers is improved through a new logging ramework, a•

new management interace in SAS Management Console and integration with

industry-standard monitoring sotware. Security eatures have also been enhanced

to be more robust and IT riendly.

All o the SAS Business Intelligence clients have been updated to make users•

more productive, with eatures such as context-sensitive menus and dynamic

prompts.

Architectural enhancements in SAS® 9.2

SAS 9.2 metadata-based sotware includes the ollowing architectural enhancements

and improvements to interoperability and scalability:

The new SAS Pooled Workspace Server, which uses a new eature called server-•

side pooling. In this conguration, the SAS object spawner maintains a collection

o workspace server processes that are available or clients. Applications such as

SAS Inormation Map Studio, SAS Web Report Studio and the SAS Inormation

Delivery Portal use this server by deault to query relational inormation maps.

Increased grid enablement. Support has been added or DataSynapse GridServer•

and Univa UD Grid MP as grid middleware providers.

Greater use o enterprise Web application server capabilities on the middle tier,•

resulting in higher throughput and more opportunities or scaling.

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The new SAS Web Inrastructure Platorm, which provides basic services and•

applications that are used by all Web applications. Components that were

previously part o the SAS Web Inrastructure Kit, including the SAS Services

Application and the SAS Stored Process Web Application, are now part o theSAS Web Inrastructure Platorm and are used by all Web applications. This

provides more consistency in unctionality and administration. The SAS Web

Inrastructure Kit no longer exists.

The new SAS Content Server, which stores WebDAV-accessible content. This•

content includes report denitions that are created in SAS Web Report Studio,

images and other elements that are used in reports, and documents and other

les that are to be displayed in the SAS Inormation Delivery Portal or in SAS

solutions. The server is managed through the new SAS Web Administration

Console.

System management eatures in SAS® 9.2

For congurations that use a metadata server, new system management eatures

in SAS 9.2 provide more centralized control o your SAS environment and better

integration with your IT inrastructure. The new eatures include the ollowing:

A new logging ramework or SAS servers. Logs can be sent to a variety o •

destinations, including les, operating system acilities and client applications.

For each destination, you can congure a message layout, lters and other

parameters. The ramework supports security auditing by logging authentication

events, client connections, changes to user and group inormation, andpermission changes. Perormance-related log events also can be generated or

processing by an Application Response Measurement (ARM) 4.0 server.

New server management eatures in SAS Management Console. These eatures•

enable you to remotely quiesce, stop, pause, resume and validate SAS servers,

as well as view and manage server connections and processes. You can now

view the contents o server logs in SAS Management Console and dynamically

change logging levels rom the console without restarting servers.

Integration with third-party system management tools. Your IT sta can now•

monitor SAS servers along with other critical servers through tools such as

BMC Perormance Manager, HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli and Microsot OceManager Server.

A new interace called SAS Deployment Manager. This interace enables you to•

automatically update service account passwords in metadata. You can also use it

to rebuild SAS Web applications or to remove conguration inormation or one or

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A new Web-based interace called SAS Web Administration Console. You can•

use this interace to monitor which users are logged on to SAS Web applications,

manage olders and permissions in the SAS Content Server and view the current

conguration o Web applications.

The new SAS Conguration Manager in SAS Management Console. You can•

use this plug-in to change settings or speciy property names and values or

Web applications, including the SAS Inormation Delivery Portal, SAS Web

Report Studio and SAS BI Dashboard. You can also use it to manage logging

congurations or Web applications.

Centralized management o themes. You can now customize SAS themes in a•

single place and then congure the Web applications to use the themes that you

customize.

For more inormation about these and other enhancements, see “What’s New

in System Administration or the SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platorm” and “What’s

New in Web Application Administration or the SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platorm”

on http://support.sas.com.

Security eatures in SAS® 9.2

For congurations that use a metadata server, SAS 9.2 provides more robust and

more easily managed security through the ollowing enhancements:

Expanded support or roles. With roles, you can manage the availability o •

application eatures such as menu items, plug-ins and buttons. This support

is available in SAS Add-In or Microsot Oce, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS

Management Console, SAS Web Report Studio and other applications. For

administrators, roles are provided or unrestricted access to metadata, metadata

server operation and user administration.

Simplied inheritance o permissions. For most items, access control inheritance•

fows through the SAS olders tree (and can cross repository boundaries as

needed). Each schema, cube, library and table inherits permissions rom

only its parent older. Inheritance rom application servers, libraries, OLAP

schemas, DBMS servers and DBMS schemas has been discontinued. The new

authorization interace always displays eective permissions. It also enables

unrestricted users to trace an item’s inheritance and look up users’ permissions tothe item.

A new metadata server option that prevents passwords rom being stored on•

client machines. When this option is activated, users are always prompted

or passwords when they launch a client application. In addition, an industry-

standard algorithm (AES xed key) is now used by deault to encrypt passwords

in metadata. I you don’t have SAS/SECURE™ sotware, SASProprietary encoding

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A new type o user account that exists only in metadata. These accounts, called•

internal accounts, are used primarily to connect to the SAS Metadata Server. This

eature minimizes the need to create external accounts or service identities.

SAS token authentication. This eature enables users who have been•

authenticated by the SAS Metadata Server to access most other SAS servers

without being prompted again or credentials.

Support or Integrated Windows authentication. I you implement this option,•

users do not receive a logon prompt when they launch desktop applications such

as SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Inormation Map

Studio, SAS Management Console and SAS OLAP Cube Studio. The client and

the metadata server must be in the same Windows domain or in domains that

trust each other.

Better integration with third-party products on the middle tier. Web authentication•

is now supported or JBoss, Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere, and all

Web authentication occurs through a central authentication service. Interaction

with WebSeal and SiteMinder is supported. In addition, you can congure client

certication or one-way and two-way SSL authentication.

A aster process or importing user identity inormation. You can now load this•

inormation into the metadata in blocks using the MDUIMPLB and MDUCHGLB

macros. (The corresponding macros rom the previous release are still supported.)

For more inormation about these and other enhancements, see “What’s New

in Security Administration or the SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platorm” on

http://support.sas.com.

Enhancements to analytics sotware

SAS® Enterprise Miner™ sotware

SAS Enterprise Miner 6.1 is a major new release o data mining tools or use with

SAS 9.2. The enhancements include the ollowing:

Improvements to variable list tables. These tables now include summary statistics.•

In addition, when conguring variable list table displays, you can now select only

the variable attributes that are important to your work.

Greater integration with the SAS 9.2 inrastructure, including use o the SAS•

Folders tree to store projects and models. You can register models directly to the

tree structure and then use the Model Import node to import a registered model

into a data mining process fow diagram. The score code o the imported model is

applied to the data in the diagram, generating new model assessment statistics.



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A switch-targets eature that enables you to select a new dependent variable•

in a tree lea and make new splits based on the new target. This is a powerul

analytical eature or users who design decision trees or segmentation strategies.

In addition, the Interactive Decision Tree is now ully integrated into the application

and requires no separate installation or documentation.

New File Import and LARS nodes. With the File Import node, you can directly•

integrate external data les into process fow diagrams. The LARS node uses

least angle regression and LASSO algorithms rom the SAS/STAT procedure

GLMSELECT to perorm model-tting tasks and sophisticated variable selection

or interval target models.

Many enhancements to existing nodes. For example, the Reporter node provides•

new ODS unctions that create document graphs, process fow diagrams and

analytical plots that match the graphics that are displayed in the user interace.

SAS/ETS® sotware

The PANEL procedure expands the estimation capability o the TSCSREG procedure

in the time-series cross-sectional ramework. The new methods include between

estimators, pooled estimators and dynamic panel estimators using the GMM

method. The COUNTREG procedure implements count data models such as

Poisson regression, negative binomial regression with linear and quadratic variance

unctions, zero-infated Poisson (ZIP) model and the zero-infated negative binomial

(ZINB) model. The new SIMILARITY (experimental) procedure provides similarity

analysis o time series data.

The new ESM procedure provides orecasting using exponential smoothing models

with optimized smoothing weights. In addition, the SASEHAVR interace engine is

now in production and available to Windows users or accessing economic and

nancial data residing in a HAVER ANALYTICS Data Link Express (DLX) database.

SAS/Genetics™ sotware

SAS/Genetics sotware includes two new experimental procedures, the BTL

procedure and the GENESELECT procedure. Several enhancements have been

made to the ALLELE procedure. A ormat o genotype columns not previously

supported can now be accommodated by the ALLELE, CASECONTROL, FAMILY

and HAPLOTYPE procedures.




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SAS/IML® sotware

SAS/IML Studio (ormerly known as SAS Stat Studio) is sotware or data exploration

and analysis. It is included with SAS/IML sotware and provides a highly fexibleprogramming environment where you can run SAS/STAT or SAS/IML analyses and

display the results with dynamically linked graphics and data tables. SAS/IML Studio

is intended or data analysts who write SAS programs to solve statistical problems

but need more versatility or data exploration and model building. The programming

language in SAS/IML Studio, which is called IMLPlus, is an enhanced version o the

IML programming language. IMLPlus extends SAS/IML to provide new language

eatures, including the ability to create and manipulate statistical graphics, call SAS

procedures as unctions and call computational programs written in C, C++, Java

and FORTRAN. This sotware also includes an interace to the R language. SAS/IML

Studio runs on a PC in the Microsot Windows operating environment.

SAS/OR® sotware

SAS/OR 9.2 sotware continues the mathematical optimization improvements

delivered in previous releases. Several new and enhanced eatures, including a new

suite o accelerated solvers or linear, mixed-integer, quadratic and general nonlinear

optimization, expand the scale and scope o problems that SAS/OR sotware can

address. The OPTMODEL procedure provides an algebraic language designed or

building and solving optimization models, embedded within the SAS language. The

new OPTLP, OPTMILP and OPTQP procedures enable the direct solution o linear,

mixed-integer and quadratic optimization models represented in industry-standard

ormats. SAS/OR 9.2 sotware also eatures the rst production versions o the GAprocedure (or optimization with genetic algorithms), the Earned Value Management

macros (or evaluating and predicting perormance in executing project schedules)

and SAS Simulation Studio (or discrete event simulation o systems).

SAS/QC® sotware

Creating consistent output is easier now that the ANOM, CAPABILITY, CUSUM,

MACONTROL, PARETO, RELIABILITY and SHEWHART procedures produce graphs

that conorm to ODS styles. Also, with ODS Graphics (experimental in SAS/QC 9.2),

you can obtain the highest quality output with minimal syntax and ull compatibility

with graphics produced by SAS/STAT and SAS/ETS procedures.

The SAS ADX Interace or Design o Experiments includes enhancements related to

response surace mixture, general actorial and split-plot designs. Furthermore, the

interace can now import data rom SAS data sets or external le ormats, and it can

export design inormation to SAS data sets or external le ormats.



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SAS/STAT® sotware

SAS 9.2 brings several new procedures to SAS/STAT sotware, some o which were

available as experimental Web downloads or SAS 9.1.3.

The GLIMMIX procedure analyzes generalized linear mixed models. In SAS•

9.2, PROC GLIMMIX introduces the COVTEST statement or inerence about

covariance parameters. It also provides two new estimation methods: Laplace and

adaptive quadrature.

The GLMSELECT procedure perorms model selection in the ramework o general•

linear models.

The QUANTREG procedure perorms quantile regression.•

The GENMOD, LIFEREG and PHREG procedures now provide Bayesian analysis.•

Speciying the BAYES statement produces posterior distributions via Gibbs

sampling while also providing trace plots and convergence diagnostics.

The MCMC procedure is a general-purpose Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)•

simulation procedure that ts a variety o Bayesian models.

The Power and Sample Size (PSS) application, previously available as a Web•

application, has been rewritten as a Java client.

The SEQDESIGN and SEQTEST procedures provide interim analysis o clinical•

trials data.

More than 200 enhancements to existing procedures greatly increase analysis•

capabilities. For example, the TTEST procedure now oers simple crossover

analysis as well as equivalence tests; the GENMOD procedure provides zero-

infated Poisson regression models; the survey data analysis procedures includereplication methods or variance estimation; and the PHREG procedure adds a

HAZARDRATIO statement or computing hazard ratios, including hazard ratios in

the presence o interactions.

Enhancements to BI and data integration client

applications (general)

SAS clients can be Windows applications, Java applications or Web-based

applications, and include SAS sotware components such as SAS Inormation Map

Studio, SAS Add-In or Microsot Oce and SAS Web Report Studio in SAS Business

Intelligence sotware; SAS Data Integration Studio (the GUI component o SAS

Enterprise Data Integration Server and SAS Data Integration Server); and standalone

products that may also be part o sotware bundles such as SAS Inormation Delivery

Portal and SAS Enterprise Guide.




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The client applications in SAS 9.2 include many enhancements that increase

productivity, improve consistency and manageability, and provide better security. The

ollowing enhancements are common to most SAS 9.2 client applications:

Expanded support or roles. With roles, you can manage the availability o •

application eatures such as menu items, plug-ins and buttons. This support is

available in SAS Enterprise Guide; SAS Management Console (a component o

base SAS sotware); SAS Web Report Studio and SAS Add-In or Microsot Oce

(components o SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server sotware); and other

applications.

Simplied management o proles or connecting to the metadata server. Proles•

are more consistent and are easier to add, modiy and delete. Users now connect

to the server rather than to a metadata repository. Administrators can now control

whether users are able to save passwords in proles.

Consistent storage o metadata in the new SAS Folders tree. The tree appears•

in the SAS Management Console and other client applications as applicable.

Personal olders are provided or individual users. Within the overall structure, you

can create a customized older structure to meet your data sharing and security

requirements.

A new prompt ramework that oers greater unctionality and fexibility. For•

relational data, prompts can be cascading and hierarchical. You can create

prompts that use dynamically generated value lists and establish dependencies

between prompts in a lter expression. When creating prompts or a stored

process, you can make them globally available or use in lters. You can also

create prompts or OLAP lters.

New Export SAS Package and Import SAS Package wizards in SAS Management•

Console, SAS Data Integration Studio (a component o SAS Enterprise Data

Integration Server and SAS Data Integration Server) and SAS OLAP Cube Studio

(a component o SAS OLAP Server and SAS Enterprise BI Server). With these

wizards, you can promote a larger number o object types than was possible with

BI Manager. New batch import and export tools are also provided so that you can

perorm promotions rom a command line or using a batch script.

Use o the new SAS Pooled Workspace Server. This server uses server-•

side pooling, in which a collection o reusable workspace server processes

is maintained, thus avoiding the overhead that is associated with creating a

new process or each connection. Query and reporting tools, such as SAS

Web Report Studio and the SAS Inormation Delivery Portal, use this server

conguration by deault to query relational inormation maps.



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Enhancements to SAS® Business Intelligence

sotware clients

SAS® Add-In or Microsot Ofce

A component o SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server, SAS Add-In

or Microsot Oce enables users to transparently leverage the power o SAS

data access, reporting and analytics directly rom Microsot Oce. SAS 9.2

enhancements include:

A new List Report wizard. You can use this wizard to quickly create detailed and•

summary reports. Alternatively, you can embed reports that were created in SAS

Web Report Studio into your Microsot Oce les.

Increased unctionality when creating reports and graphs. When you create•

PivotTable reports using OLAP cube data, you can now add variables, calculated

measures and calculated members. When creating bar charts, you can now

dene multiple chart variables within a single group variable. Bar-line charts can

now include multiple line plots, with dierent line statistics or each plot. ODS

Statistical Graphics are now supported, as are Fisher options or Pearson or

Spearman correlations.

An updated user interace. All SAS unctions are displayed in logical groupings•

in the Microsot Oce ribbon bar or easy access. You can now preview results

beore they are inserted into Microsot Excel, Word or PowerPoint, and you can

restore content that you previously deleted or excluded. You can also save yoursettings or a specic task to a task template or later use in SAS Add-In or

Microsot Oce or SAS Enterprise Guide.

SAS® BI Dashboard

A component o SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server, SAS BI Dashboard 4.2

includes the ollowing enhancements:

Powerul new unctionality or users. New indicators, using Adobe Flash, enable•

users to traverse large amounts o detailed data interactively. For example, users

can view changes in data over time by simply moving a slider. This eliminates the

need to create multiple indicators or dierent time periods. In addition, you can

now create alerts that signal changes to an indicator’s value, enabling users to

ocus on problem areas as they occur.

Better integration with other SAS sotware. When you link to a SAS Web Report•

Studio report, the report now opens to the area o the report where the indicator

value is located. You can now use lters that were dened in SAS Inormation

Map Studio, and you can create data sources based on tables registered in

metadata.




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SAS® Inormation Delivery Portal

The SAS Inormation Delivery Portal is a Web application that enables you to

aggregate data rom a variety o sources and present the data in a Web browser. Itis included with SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI Server, and it is also available

as a separate SAS module or customers without SAS BI sotware. SAS Inormation

Delivery Portal 9.2 includes the ollowing enhancements:

Report editing and viewing via SAS Web Report Studio. Depending on the•

sotware that has been installed, the portal uses SAS Web Report Studio

instead o SAS Web Report Viewer to display reports. Reports that are displayed

with SAS Web Report Studio can be edited rom the portal by users who are

authorized to do so.

More control over sort order. The administrator can now speciy deault values•

or package sort order and page navigation. Users can set a preerence to sort

publication packages in ascending or descending order by creation date. This sort

order can be overridden or specic publication channels that are in

collection portlets.

Other enhancements, including updated navigator portlets to comply with the new•

SAS metadata model, elimination o the Public Kiosk to comply with a stronger

security model and a new deault theme that is consistent with the theme used by

other Web applications, such as SAS Web Report Studio.

SAS® Inormation Map Studio

SAS Inormation Map Studio, a component o SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS

BI Server, enables data modelers and data architects to create and manage SAS

Inormation Maps, which are business metadata about physical data. Inormation

maps enable you to surace your data in terms that typical business users

understand, while storing key inormation that is needed to build appropriate queries.

SAS 9.2 enhancements include:

A redesigned user interace. A new Resources pane provides a central location•

or all resources. You can now add a data source or stored process by double-

clicking it, using its pop-up menu option or dragging it to the Selected Resources

pane. The new zoom eature on the tab in the main window displays more data

sources in a single view. With the new auto-arrange eature, you can rearrange

data sources so that they more closely resemble a star schema. An undo eature

is also available.

New eatures that increase productivity. With the new bulk edit eature, you•

can simultaneously modiy multiple data items and custom properties. The

new resource replacement eature enables you to replace resources that are

unresolved or no longer relevant.



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Enhanced ltering eatures. These include the ability to hide lters rom end•

users, select multiple (nonprompted) lters or a test query and return the names

o the user groups and roles that a requesting user belongs to. A new browse-

and-search eature locates the values (or members) or a character expression,

an OLAP data item or a character data item whose value-generation method

provides a dynamically generated list o values.

Data-related enhancements. Inormation map tables can now be used as data•

sources. Data values that are hyperlink tags can now be rendered as hyperlinks

in query results and support is now available or the totaling o nonadditive

expressions.

SAS® OLAP Cube Studio

SAS OLAP Cube Studio is the cube-building component o SAS OLAP Server (whichis licensed as a standalone product and also is included in SAS Enterprise BI Server).

SAS OLAP Cube Studio 4.2 includes the ollowing enhancements:

The ability to update and manage cubes using ewer hardware resources. In•

particular, the new incremental cube update eature enables you to add data and

members to a cube without rebuilding the cube. This eliminates the time and

resources required to rebuild cubes every time new data becomes available.

New cube building eatures. You can now create multiple hierarchies or a•

dimension and designate one o them as the deault. Time dimensions can

be built with user-supplied time hierarchies that automatically populate levels

and ormats. With the new View Cube unction, you can veriy the cube-build

process and visualize the data structure o a cube. In addition, cube jobs are now

automatically generated when a cube is built.

New and enhanced wizards. The Calculated Members wizard is now ully•

integrated with the application. It includes an advanced expression builder that

enables you to speciy user-dened ormats, set the solve order and build a

custom MDX ormula. In addition, you can use the newly designed Aggregation

Tuning wizard to build, edit and customize aggregations.

Other new unctionality, including perorming impact analysis or a cube,•

synchronizing a cube when a table column name has changed, attaching

documents and notes to a cube, disabling a cube, and exporting and importing

cubes as part o a SAS package.

SAS® Web Report Studio

SAS Web Report Studio is a Web-based application that enables you to create, view

and organize reports, and is a component o SAS Enterprise BI Server and SAS BI

Server. SAS Web Report Studio includes the ollowing enhancements in SAS 9.2:




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An updated user interace that provides a more traditional desktop application•

experience. You can now drag and drop data source items to your reports and

graphs, and you can drag the borders o objects to resize them. Context-sensitive

menus are now available by right-clicking. When viewing reports, users in the

appropriate role can add group breaks, change the data items in a section query

and delete objects. A new progress indicator displays while reports are being

rendered and partial screen reresh is now supported.

More powerul ltering and linking eatures. A new search eature in the Filter dialog•

box lets you quickly lter large amounts o detailed data. You can dene multiple lter

conditions or a data item, lter numeric category data items by unormatted data

values and display data source lters that are based on physical columns. You can now

link to a specic report section rom the same report or a dierent report. In addition,

you can link directly to a SAS Stored Process, include hyperlinks in stored process

output or graphs and add data-driven hyperlinks to tables.

Updated graph eatures. You can now add vertical and horizontal reerence lines•

to charts with annotations. On bar-line charts, you can include multiple lines,

multiple bars or both. The ability to create tile charts has also been added.

Other enhancements, including improved support or totals and or multidimensional•

data sources, a new deault report style, bookmarks in PDF output, new page t and

page numbering options, and more fexible margin settings.

Enhancements to SAS® Data Integration sotware clients

SAS® Data Integration Studio

The GUI component o SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server and SAS Data

Integration Server, SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2 includes the ollowing

enhancements:

An updated user interace or creating and maintaining jobs. New zoom and•

pan eatures enable you to view large process fows more easily. You can use

the overview pane to view the overall fow or use the details panel to view node

details. Post-it notes can be added to diagrams. When a job is reopened, the

layout appears in the same state as when it was last saved.

Usability enhancements that improve the job creation process. You can use a•

table more than once in the same job, you can include a job within a job, and you

can import your existing data management code into a job. The new undo eature

enables you to reverse an action, and the redo eature enables you to reverse an

undo operation.



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Enhanced mapping eatures. These eatures include intelligent handling o data•

type conversions, easy and selectable customized mappings, and controlled

propagation o changes to mappings.

New debugging eatures to use when designing and running jobs. Customized•

design-time diagnostics inorm you about design errors as you build the process

fow or a job. Run-time indicators display job progress and provide status, errors

and warnings while the job is still running. A debug toolbar includes Run, Stop,

Run To/From Selected Transormation, Step and Continue unctions. You can

restart jobs rom any node or rom the middle o a load.

Perormance monitoring capabilities that help you identiy bottlenecks. You can•

capture and display CPU time, memory use, I/O statistics and record counts in

both tabular and graphic ormats.

Honoring o login settings or databases such as Oracle and DB2. This means•

that i a DBMS is congured to always prompt or user name and password, SAS

Data Integration sotware honors this setting.

You can now register Netezza and Neoview tables and include them in SAS Data•

Integration Studio jobs. In addition, a ast technique or change data capture

(CDC) now reads changes or Oracle, IBM DB2 and Attunity data. You can also

create custom data ormats or change data capture.

Other data integration sotware enhancements

SAS 9.2 also includes new eatures or accessing and managing your organization’s

data. New DataFlux® sotware has been added to SAS Enterprise Data Integration

Server and SAS Data Integration Server. Both o these oerings include DataFlux®

dPower® Prole, which can execute a complete assessment o your organization’s

data. SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server includes DataFlux dPower Explorer,

which can be used to analyze metadata rom existing data sources. It also includes

a version o DataFlux Standard Integration Server specically or use with SAS. You

can visually design data quality workfows using DataFlux dPower Studio and then

call those workfows rom within SAS Data Integration Studio using new drag-and-

drop data quality transormations.




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Enhancements to SAS® Enterprise Guide®

SAS Enterprise Guide is a project-oriented Windows application that is designed

to enable quick access to much o the analytic power o SAS sotware or SAS

business analysts, SAS programmers and SAS statisticians. It includes the ollowing

enhancements:

A signicantly simplied user interace. The options on menus and toolbars now•

change according to the task you are perorming so that you see only the options

that relate to the current task. The user interace makes it easier to speciy a data

source and, when doing so, to create a simple or advanced lter and speciy a

sort order. When creating projects, you can use new conditional nodes to dene

conditional logic without writing code.

Improvements to the Query Builder. These improvements make it easier to dene•

lters, create computed and recoded columns and build expressions. When you

join DBMS tables, PROC SQL Pass-Through statements are now validated. In

addition, you can speciy titles and ootnotes or query output.

Enhancements similar to those in the SAS Add-In or Microsot Oce. These•

include a new List Report wizard, bar chart and bar-line chart eatures, support or

ODS Statistical Graphics and support o Fisher options or Pearson or Spearman

correlations.

Other new unctionality, including the ability to create a tile chart so that you can•

view a large quantity o hierarchical data in a limited space. You can also create a

report o table denitions in metadata, export SAS reports to HTML, send les tothe SAS Add-In or Microsot Oce, download les to your computer and upload

les to a SAS server.



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Installing, confguring and migrating to SAS® 9.2

Installation and confguration enhancements

The ollowing enhancements make installation and conguration o SAS 9.2 sotware

signicantly easier and aster:

The new SAS Download Manager enables you to download your SAS order by•

using an HTTP connection over the Internet.

The new SAS Deployment Wizard combines installation and conguration into•

a single process. The wizard prompts or user entries and checks or required

sotware at the beginning. Installation and conguration then run silently and

unattended.

A capture-replay eature makes it easy to automate deployment across multiple•

machines.

I your conguration includes SAS servers, the SAS Deployment Wizard congures•

the servers automatically. When you install SAS Web applications, you can choose

to have the wizard congure your Web server and deploy the applications. The

number o manual steps has been greatly reduced, as has the number o required

user accounts.

Running SAS® 9.2 and SAS® 9.1.3 on the same machine

It is possible to run SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.1.3 simultaneously on the same computer.

You must be sure to create a separate sotware depot and install the sotware in

separate locations. In congurations that include SAS servers, you must use dierent

TCP/IP port numbers. For important details and considerations, see “Peaceul

coexistence or SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.1.3” at http://support.sas.com/rnd/migration/

papers/peaceul.html.




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Moving metadata and other content to SAS® 9.2

I your conguration includes a metadata server, you will need to move and upgrade

your content (including data, metadata, conguration details and business logic) rom

SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.2. Comprehensive tools are provided to perorm this task. You

can choose rom the ollowing three approaches:

With the• migration approach, you begin by running the SAS Migration Utility. This

utility creates a migration package that contains your SAS 9.1.3 content. Then you

run the SAS Deployment Wizard. The wizard uses the contents o the migration

package to congure and populate your SAS 9.2 deployment. This approach

moves and upgrades the ollowing content: metadata or servers, users, groups

and access control templates (ACTs); conguration and deployment properties or

Web applications; some conguration les or SAS servers; and all SAS content

that is stored in metadata and WebDAV.

With the• promotion approach, you rst use the SAS Deployment Wizard to create

a SAS 9.2 deployment. Then you use promotion tools (Import SAS Package and

Export SAS Package wizards) to export content rom SAS 9.1.3 and import it to

SAS 9.2. You can use this approach to move and upgrade metadata, WebDAV

content and physical les or the ollowing object types: data explorations,

documents, external les, olders, generated transormations, inormation maps,

job fows, jobs, libraries, mining results, notes, reports, scheduled jobs, stored

processes and tables. A process or moving and upgrading OLAP cubes is also

provided.

With a• combination approach, you rst use the migration approach to build your

initial SAS 9.2 deployment. While running the two deployments in parallel, youuse promotion tools to periodically reresh the SAS 9.2 deployment with new and

updated content.

To use any o these approaches, you must be using SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 4. In

addition, you should ensure that SAS 9.2 versions o all o your SAS sotware are

available. The “SAS Intelligence Platorm: 9.1.3 to 9.2 Migration Guide” on http://

support.sas.com provides details to help you plan an upgrade process that is

appropriate or your situation. The guide also describes important preparation steps

and post-upgrade steps.



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