Date:         Wed, 4 Feb 2004 03:42:22 GMT
Reply-To:     John Iwaniszek <not@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         John Iwaniszek <not@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Pharmaceutical SAS Programming

Lou wrote:

>
> "Jeff Morison" <jmt_mtf@YAHOO.COM> wrote in message
> news:20040204012424.38823.qmail@web40805.mail.yahoo.com...
>> Can any one involved with pharmaceutical industry
>> please provide sample copies of SAS programming and
>> and their validation SOPs?.
>>
> Surely you jest.  Where I work, such things (especially the SOPs) are
> company property.  SOPs in particular cannot be distributed to those
> without contractual or legal access.  They can't even be printed out
> and stored in a binder, but are accessed and read online.  Programs
> aren't so restricted, but since they are occasionally sold, they may
> not be just given away.
>
> That being said, I'm faced with writing an SOP on validating an
> install of SAS on a workstation.  That is, once the install procedure
> has been done and the last CD slipped back into its envelop, how do we
> validate that everything is working as it should?  Anyone out there
> have any pointers?
>
>
>

I'm curious.  Do you have a similar requirement for installing Word?
Windows?  Excel?