A lot of companies are moving towards centralising SAS on servers and moving uses to Enterprise Guide as the front end.

On e of the issues with this apporach is that users are anable to save or open SAS Datasets on their local PC, because the SAS engine is in the Server.

So you have to copy or ftp the files to the server before you can use them, which is a hassle (or worse if the server is locked down)

While I was downloading the SAS Sharepoint Webparts that Iven provided a link to (thanks Iven) I went for a bit of a browse in the SAS Downloads area to see if there were any new toys.

I stumbled across a new task for EG called:

Upload/Download SAS Data Sets — Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide

which you can dlownload from here:

http://www.sas.com/apps/demosdownloads/webparts_PROD_1.1_sysdep.jsp?packageID=000563

It solves this issue for you.

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