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Introduction The communication between windows and z/OS is achieved using the telnet service. You will need to enable this service on your Windows server, it should already be available on your mainframe. Please refer to the full documentation for Altair SLC Communicate but the general idea is that each user of your…
The CPORT and CIMPORT procedures can be used to transfer mainframe-based WPD data libraries to another platform. If you need to transfer other types of libraries such as custom formats or special compiled macros, you will need to rebuild them from source on the destination platform. The portable SAS language method of…
Workbench is essentially a plugin to the Eclipse IDE framework and each workspace has a special metadata folder to store all your preferences and configuration data related to that workspace. To share these preferences (and code templates) with another workspace one solution is to simply export your preferences using…
Office tools such as Outlook sometimes lose the style sheet formatting created as a result of executing a PROC PRINT or statistical procedure that is then directly sent as an e-mail. The output can be viewed in a web browser from within the mail system but appears unformatted when viewed in Outlook. If you wish to see the…
It is possible to save sections of highlighted code as workbench tasks. To do this simply: 1. Highlight the code you wish to repeatedly execute 2. Use Edit->Add Task and fill in a short keyword or description (the element, folder and line number should be pre-filled in). OK the form. 3. To view your tasks use Window->Show…
The Code Analyser can only be run from the Windows Platform within the Workbench, so SAS source scripts need to be imported into a Workbench Project. If you are transferring files from a mainframe then it is quite common to use the XMIT method to transfer z/OS files to PC: 1) on z/OS, create an .XMIT file from the original…
Sometimes you may unfortunately receive an error message saying your project files are corrupt and you are unable to properly start Workbench and access your SAS language programs. In this case your actual files and programs have probably *not* been lost but the metadata that the Eclipse framework needs to understand which…
If you have created a new default style but wish to return to the default one shipped with the software then you can use the TEMPLATE procedure with the DELETE statement. For example, PROC OPTIONS OPTION=SASUSER; RUN; PROC TEMPLATE; title "List the current styles before deletion"; list styles; run; PROC TEMPLATE; delete…
In order to use the Excel or Access engine (in 64-bit SLC) you need to have either MS Office (64-bit) or the AccessDatabaseEngine (64-bit) installed. The main dependency is to make sure that you have installed the AccessDatabaseEngine that matches the version of SLC you have installed on your server (64 bit) (go to…
We recommend using the IMPORT procedure to read delimited files, for example: /* READING IN CSV type data */ /* For a comma separated text file where the first line contains the variable names */ proc import datafile="input.csv" out=dataset dbms=csv replace; getnames=YES; run; /* For a semi-colon separated text file where…
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