Date:         Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:49:33 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter.Crawford@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
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From:         Peter Crawford <Peter.Crawford@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: SAS viewer does not handle long format names
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Please add to customising layout, the ability to save and
reuse these customisations


Peter Crawford

Crawford Software Consultancy Limited




-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Churchill [mailto:savian001@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 July 2007 23:25
To: 'Peter Crawford'; SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: RE: SAS viewer does not handle long format names

Can we get a list of features that people want in a viewer?

- View SAS datasets with no restrictions on field size
- Wrap long values
- Export SAS data to multiple formats
        - XML
        - HTML
        - Delimited
        - Excel
        - Access
        - ?
- Ability to launch from command line with a SAS dataset name
- Column sorting
- Column reordering
- Aggregations
- Filter by values

I have all of the above w/o much additional effort. What else do people
need? Perhaps there is a need for an interim utility until SAS fixes their
Viewer.

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net



-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter
Crawford
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:48 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: SAS viewer does not handle long format names

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:46:01 -0700, jclguy <vogelmann74@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Hi, I discovered the hard way that SAS viewer does not handle long (>
>8 char) format names. This is documented in SAS Note SN-014950.
>Supposedly this will be fixed in a "future release". Could we as a
>community make some noise about this? Many of our end users only need
>to look at the contents of the datasets themselves, so this will be a
>significant hardship to them.
>
>TIA
>
>Stanley Fogleman
>
>Opinions expressed in this post are strictly my own...

Hi Stanley,

I'll join your lobby.
Perhaps the powers that control such development budgets at SAS
Institute might like to consider the effect of a general policy
of converting all data to be shared with analysts who are not SAS-
power-users, from SAS datasets to some other form (e.g. rdbms
tables or excel data). We end up with near-excessive demands for
export features that would be unneccessary if these other analysts
who not have a full SAS Client, could adequately use the SAS
System Viewer. (available for download to any company that licences
the SAS System, .... at no extra charge!)

Keep it in SAS form for as long as possible (and keep them faithful)

just my $0.02

PeterC