Base SAS 9.1.3 Procedures Guide - Acsu Buffalo

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What’s New
System (ODS). PROC CONTENTS output now displays the data representation of a file
by reporting the native platform for each file, rather than just showing whether the
data representation is native or foreign. Also, PROC CONTENTS output now provides
the encoding value, whether a character variable is transcoded if required, and whether
the data set is part of a generation group. A new example shows how to insert PROC
CONTENTS output into an ODS output data set for processing.
The new ORDER= option in the CONTENTS statement enables you to print a list of
variables in alphabetical order even if they include mixed-case names.
The COPY Procedure
The following options are new or enhanced in the COPY procedure and the COPY
statement in PROC DATASETS:
3 The FORCE option enables you to use the MOVE option for a SAS data set that
has an audit trail.
3 The CLONE option now copies the data representation and encoding data set
attributes.
The CORR Procedure
The CORR procedure has the following new features:
3 The FISHER option in the PROC CORR statement requests confidence limits and
p–values for Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients based on Fisher’s z
transformation. Using the FISHER option, you can specify an alpha value and a
null hypothesis value. You can also specify the type of confidence limit (upper,
lower, or two-sided) and whether the bias adjustment should be used for the
confidence limits.
3 The PLOTS=MATRIX option in the PROC CORR statement uses ODS graphics to
produce either a rectangular matrix plot (if you also specify a WITH statement) or
a symmetric matrix plot (if you do not specify a WITH statement) for variables.
3 The PLOTS=SCATTER option in the PROC CORR statement uses ODS graphics
to produce scatter plots for variables. By default, the scatter plot also includes a
95% prediction ellipse. You can use the ELLIPSE= option with the
PLOTS=SCATTER option to include prediction ellipses for new observations,
confidence ellipses for the mean, or no ellipses.
The DATASETS Procedure
Directory listings from the DATASETS procedure provide a new look for output,
which improves the format for the Output Delivery System (ODS).
The following statements are enhanced in the DATASETS procedure:
3 The AUDIT_ALL= option in the AUDIT statement specifies whether logging can
be suspended and whether audit settings can be changed. In addition, the LOG
option in the AUDIT statement now enables you to control the logging of
administrative events to the audit file by using the ADMIN_IMAGE= setting.
3 The ICCREATE statement now enables you to create overlapping constraints.
This means that variables in a SAS data set are part of both a primary key
definition and a foreign key definition.
3 The CORRECTENCODING= option in the MODIFY statement changes the
encoding indicator (which is stamped in the file’s descriptor information) in order
to match the actual encoding of the file’s data.