Date:         Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:31:01 -0500
Reply-To:     "Keintz, H. Mark" <mkeintz@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU>
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From:         "Keintz, H. Mark" <mkeintz@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: IHS Global Insight Data xml feed
Comments: To: Linda Pavlish <lap7858@YAHOO.COM>
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Linda:

My group gets Global Insight data in DDS format, which is basically a sequence of time series.

We sasify the data by using PROC DATASOURCE, which is an obscure proc, but pretty staightfoward.


Regards,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Linda Pavlish
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:21 PM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: IHS Global Insight Data xml feed
>
> We use IHS Global Insight Data for forecasting.  Currently the process
> is
> very manual.  Analyst waits for notification from GI that data is
> available.  Analyst logs into website.  Analyst saves excel spreadsheet
> from GI website locally. We use SAS to read in the data from excel.
>
> We would like this feed to be more automatic and less manual.  We have
> investigated GI IDDS service and found that there is an xml feed.
> However,
> the XML file does not arrive in a form that SAS can read directly.
>
> Is anyone using the IDDS xml downloads in SAS?  How do you do this?
>
> Alternately,  does anyone have a process that logs into the myinsight
> websight and reads the data file from the URL?
>
> We are currently using SAS 9.1.3
>
> Any help, suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks