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What are the new features included in the new version of sas i.e., sas9.1.3?
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The main advantage of version 9 is faster execution of applications and centralized access of data and support.

There are lots of changes has been made in the version 9 when we compared with the version 8. The following are the few:

SAS version 9 supports Formats longer than 8 bytes & is not possible with version 8.
Length for Numeric format allowed in version 9 is 32 where as 8 in version 8.
Length for Character names in version 9 is 31 where as in version 8 is 32.
Length for numeric informat in version 9 is 31, 8 in version 8.

Length for character names is 30, 32 in version 8.3 new informats are available in version 9 to convert various date, time and datetime forms of data into a SAS date or SAS time.

ANYDTDTEW. - Converts to a SAS date value
ANYDTTMEW. - Converts to a SAS time value.
ANYDTDTMW. -Converts to a SAS datetime value.CALL SYMPUTX Macro statement is added in the version 9 which creates a macro variable at execution time in the data step by
Trimming trailing blanks
Automatically converting numeric value to character.

New ODS option (COLUMN OPTION) is included to create a multiple columns in the output.   Your Comment




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