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A correspondent reminded me that it is, in fact, possible to run EG
without an Integration Technologies license. SAS can talk to a local
copy of SAS for Windows without IT. If that copy of SAS for Windows has
SAS/Connect licensed, EG can use it to get to data on a server (EG <=>
SAS for Windows <=> SAS on server)..
This works, but it's more cumbersome than using the server directly,
and it can be much slower. If I were in that situation, I'd download a
sample subset of the server data to my PC, create and test my SAS
program, and run the resulting job on the server, leaving EG and SAS for
Windows out of the picture.
EG would also be useful for its data exchange features.
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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Manager, Technical Development
METRICS Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA
>>> "Jack Hamilton" <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM> 02/04/2002 11:03 AM
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John Gerstle <JGerstle@SW.UA.EDU> wrote:
>Jack,
> Wow..that's exactly what I was thinking. But what is
>Enterprise Guide? Is it a software package independent of SAS or
>another (expensive) module of SAS?
It's another expensive module of SAS. Actually, Enterprise Guide
itself isn't expensive, but it requires the Integration Technologies
module on the server, and IT is *very* expensive. I'm not directly
involved in the purchasing process, but I seem to recall that it more
or
less doubled our license fees.
>If it will become a part of
>Base in SAS 9, that would be incredibly useful.
I haven't heard anything about when it might become part of SAS. EG
is
a Windows program, so the Style Editor, like the Enhanced Editor,
might
not be available on other platforms. But at least they've written the
code and figured out what they have to do, so it's at least
conceivable
that they might port it.
>Looks like ODS
>DOCUMENTS might be just as useful. When is SAS 9 coming out
>again?
Probably by SUGI. A bit of ODS DOCUMENT is available in version 8.
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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Manager, Technical Development
METRICS Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA
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