Chapter 3. Getting Started

Introduction

Enough theory. In this chapter we introduce some techniques that work on any SAS Enterprise Guide task.

We start by looking at some of the options you can set to alter the way SAS Enterprise Guide and your programs work, and then we move on to some macro techniques to enhance reusability. Next we look at the Output Delivery System (ODS)—how SAS Enterprise Guide uses it and how it can be enhanced with relatively little effort.

Again, you need to have access to SAS Enterprise Guide to work through the examples.

Getting Ready to Face the World

Would you like the projects you develop to be usable anywhere in the world? Even if your company does not yet have offices in other countries, it could happen. Why not get ...

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