Blogging about all things SAS » DI Studio 4.2 http://blog.saasinct.com :: Sharing with the world everything we discover about SAS. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:56:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Making the move from Base SAS to Enterprise Guide (and please release DI Studio 4.2) http://blog.saasinct.com/2009/02/14/making-the-move-from-base-sas-to-enterprise-guide-and-please-release-di-studio-42/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-the-move-from-base-sas-to-enterprise-guide-and-please-release-di-studio-42 http://blog.saasinct.com/2009/02/14/making-the-move-from-base-sas-to-enterprise-guide-and-please-release-di-studio-42/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:10:02 +0000 Shane Gibson http://blog.sasinct.com/2009/02/14/making-the-move-from-base-sas-to-enterprise-guide-and-please-release-di-studio-42/ Chris Hemedinger has blogged a number of very good reasons why you would move fomr Base SAS to Enterprise Guide. He has also outlined the things you will loose.

In my experience most SAS programmers are forced by their cpmpanies to move to EG rather than do so willingly (but I amnot saying the move is a wrong one). There are a number of reasons that this move is enforced on them, including:

  • Reducing License costs, by moving from desktoplicenses to server ased licenses
  • Increased code reuse by non SAS programmers
  • Increased documentation, via EG’s semi self documenting features

One of the area I find base SAS Programmers struggle with is the whole idea of Metadata vs Physical table data. So I would recommend spending a bit of time on this with them.

At the moment we would love to move our DI Studio code to EG for one of our projects. The reason?

In EG you can see the log file as the code run’s, in DI Studio you have to wait until it finishes (assuming it does finish).

DI Studio provides the ability to see where in the process flow your job is at, but for now we write our code in DI Studio, then grab it and run it in EG so we can keep up with what it is doing.

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There was an interesting presentation over at http://www.sascommunity.org/mwiki/images/3/3c/NewsCorner_SAS_Club_16.pdf which (apart from not being in English) was dated Nov 2007 and outlined a road map for the delivery of 9.2. It outlined:

Phase 1 (Classic) – Q1 2008

  • Base, ETS, Graph, STAT, OR, QC, Share, Access,Connect

Phase 2 (Platform) – Q3 2008

  • Enterprise Guide, Data Integration Studio, Web Report Studio, Olap Server,

Phase 3 (Solutions) – Q4 2008

  • SAS Solutions
  • SAS Analytics: Enterprise Miner, Forecast Server, Model Manager

Ignoring the dates (they have obviously slipped but no official news on how much that I could find) the phasing seems to still be true, with Phase 1 already released.

In trolling around I did manage to find some information on what is being delivered in Phase 2, so I have posted them over on our main site at :

SAS 9.2 Information

Of course if you were lucky enough to attend SAS Forum 2008 and have anymore information feel free to post a comment with some juicy details.

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