What's New in SAS 9.4

SAS/CONNECT 9.4

SAS/CONNECT 9.4 offers enhanced tools for managing the SAS/CONNECT spawner, including new spawner start-up options, a new spawner interface, and a new spawner executable file that is the same for each operating environment. SAS/CONNECT also features enhanced logging and messaging support, enhanced data transfer of encoded data, support for several new Base SAS language elements, and support for the upload and download of extended attributes that use the UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD procedures.

These updates were made in a maintenance release:

• SAS 9.4M5 (September 2017)

  • Support was added so that the user can supply credentials in an authinfo file instead of in a SIGNON statement. Use of an authinfo file is required if you want ...