For members of SAS-L in the Tri-State area who are also members of the New York Area SAS Users Group (NYASUG):

The next meeting of the New York Area SAS Users Group will be on Wednesday, December 8th, 1999. This will be a half day meeting with 3 scheduled presentations. The theme of this meeting will be presentations by programmers who have authored books as part of the SAS Institute's Books By Users (BBU) program.

This meeting is being held at the Bank of New York. We thank BONY for once again hosting us. Directions to the BONY site are at the end of this text.

The following are abstracts of the scheduled presentations:

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Publishing with the SAS Institute and Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software.

By Ron Cody

Ron's talk will cover two main topics: 1) publishing with the SAS Institute and 2) a discussion of the contents of his new book, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software. Having published with an outside publisher (Prentice Hall) and with the SAS Institute, he is in a unique position to discuss the pro's and con's of publishing with the SAS Institute. Selected topics from his new book on Data Cleaning will include the detection of invalid character and numeric data and several algorithms that can be used to automatically detect possible errors in numeric data.

Biography

Dr. Ron Cody is an Associate Professor in the department of Environmental and Community Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey. He has been a SAS user for more than 20 years and is the author of Applied Statistics and the SAS. Programming Language (fourth edition), published by Prentice Hall. Along with Ray Pass, he has written a book called SAS. Programming by Example, a book of annotated SAS examples, published by the SAS Institute as part of their Books by Users (BBU) series. Ron has also published The SAS Workbook and The SAS Workbook: Solutions, in the SAS Institute's BBU series. His latest book, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software is due out in the early Spring. Ron has presented invited papers for numerous local, regional, and national SAS conferences.

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You CAN Get There from Here (and Back Again): Adding Hot-link Drill-down Capabilities to %DS2HTM and %TAB2HTM Output

By Ray Pass

The SAS Web Publishing Tools (%TAB2HTM, %DS2HTM and %OUT2HTM) can be used to create HTML pages for publishing on the Internet or an Intranet. Right out of the box (and the box is FREE too!), they can be used to create basically one page per PROC TABULATE output, or one page per SAS data set (tabularized display). (%OUT2HTM can be used to add titling and other information to any SAS procedure output, but the basic procedure output is not really enhanced.) By using simple SAS MACRO processing combined with the manipulation of TITLE statements, basic data set variable values and values of variables used as CLASS variables in TABULATE procedures, you can create whole systems of hot-linked pages with almost full drill-down capabilities. The technique is to simply insert (via macros or DATA step coding) the desired navigational HTML tags, in the appropriate places, to the to-be-displayed data (or TITLE) values, before running the data set through %DS2HTM, or through the TABULATE procedure to be used with %TAB2HTM. Techniques and examples are shown in this paper.

Biography

Ray Pass is an independent SAS consultant and has been using the SAS System for too many years. He is the co-author, with Ron Cody, of Programming SAS by Example (1995) and has delivered many invited papers at national, regional and local SAS user groups. Ray's primary areas of expertise in the SAS System are report generation and data manipulation. In addition to teaching SAS courses, Ray has also been quite active in organizing and participating in SAS user group activities on various levels. Ray was one of the founders of both the New York Area SAS Users Group (NYASUG) and the NorthEast SAS Users Group (NESUG.) Ray cochaired the first two NESUG annual conferences ('88, '89) and has been a Section Chair at many SAS User Group International (SUGI) annual conventions.

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Tuning SAS Applications in the MVS Environment

By Michael A. Raithel

Michael A. Raithel will present an overview of his book: Tuning SAS Applications in the MVS Environment. Michael will answer questions about the book and tell you why it should be an indispensable part of your SAS reference library. He will close with a humorous presentation: How to Impress an Interviewer that YOU are a SAS Software Expert.

Biography

Michael A. Raithel specializes in designing, creating and implementing SAS applications that run in the MVS operating system on mainframe computers. He has a solid background in computer performance and capacity planning, as well as in applications programming. Michael was Co-chair of the NESUG'95 Conference in Washington, DC, and has been a Section chair for SUGI, NESUG, and SESUG conferences. He has frequently been an invited speaker at SUGI and NESUG conferences, has spoken at SESUG, and was invited to present a one-day seminar to members of the VIEWS SAS Users group in the United Kingdom. Michael's foray into the PC SAS world, a SAS/IntrNet application for the US Customs Service, netted him a nomination for the 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Award for Government & Non-Profit Organizations. Michael is the author of "Tuning SAS Applications in the MVS Environment" published by the SAS Institute.

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The agenda for the December 8th meeting is:

8:30 - 09:00 Coffee and Bagels

9:00 - 10:00 You CAN Get There from Here (and Back Again): Adding Hot-link Drill-down Capabilities to %DS2HTM and %TAB2HTM Output

By Ray Pass

10:00 - 10:30 Break and Random Access

10:30 - 11:30 Publishing with the SAS Institute and Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software.

By Ron Cody

11:30 - 12:30 Tuning SAS Applications in the MVS Environment

By Michael A. Raithel

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Directions

Bank of New York 10th Floor Auditorium 101 Barclay Street New York, NY 10286

The Bank of New York is located one block north of the World Trade Center between Greenwich and West Streets, Barclay and Park Place. The main entrance is on Greenwich/Park Place. For longtime members, this is just north of our old location at the World Financial Center.

By SUBWAY

Take the IND (A, C, E) to Chambers Street/World Trade Center stop exit at Park Place, walk 2 blocks west to Greenwich. West side IRT (1 or 9) to Chambers Street, walk 1 block west to Greenwich and three blocks south to Park Place, IRT (2 or 3) to Park Place, walk 2 blocks west to Park Place. East side IRT (4 or 5) to Broadway Nassau, walk north to Park Place and west to Greenwich. BMT (R or N) to Cortlandt Street/World Trade Center. Walk west to Greenwich and north to Park Place.

By BUS

M9, M10 or M22 to Battery Park City.

By CAR

Take West Street (West Side Highway) and turn onto Vesey Street (1 block south of Barclay). Parking is available at the World Trade Center.

>From NEW JERSEY

Take the Path train to World Trade Center and then walk north.

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For further information about this meeting, or the New York Area SAS Users Group, please contact the group's liaison:

Jean LaFrance FISA 450 / 460 West 33rd Street New York, NY 10001 Phone: (212) 857-1435 E-Mail: JcLaFrance@Aol.Com