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VIEWS News 75 (2024Q1) has been published!

VIEWS News issue 75 has now been published.

Supporting all Foundation SAS programmers, this newsletter continues to bring you information to make the most of SAS 9. This newsletter issue includes examples of how to make chloropeth maps using ODS Graphics from LeRoy Bessler, and Richard Carson continues his discussion about configuring of SAS processes without editing them in the fifth and penultimate part of a series of articles about KT. As usual I have publicised some more SAS‑related events for the next few months, and I have also added more SAS formats, options and functions that you may, or may not, have come across before, but you might find interesting, and even useful.

Note that LeRoy Bessler and I will be having an Authors Discussion Lunch in Milwaukee on 26Jun2024, or, more accurately, LeRoy and I will be having lunch in Milwaukee, and you are welcome to join us. A link for more details can be found in the Diary section.

If you would like to contribute an article, to re-visit and improve an existing article, or just discuss the possibility of doing so, please feel free to send an email to me at view-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk or phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk. Publication deadlines are the 14th day of February, May, August and November each year.

To be able to read this and all previous issues you will need to follow these steps:

If you have not already registered on this blog site, go to blog.hollandnumerics.org.uk and register for free membership.
Once successfully registered, click the menu item [Subscriptions for Forums and Features] > [Request access to the VIEWS UK forum] to request free access to the VIEWS UK forum, then add your name and email address to the form before clicking [Send].
On receipt of a request for an existing blog member I will register them for free access to the VIEWS UK forum, and then send them an email to confirm this.
The next time they log onto the blog site they will see VIEWS UK in the forum list, where you will find the latest issue of VIEWS News, forum topics to find the backissues, functions and formats in every published issue, and a tag cloud covering every forum on the site to which you have access, including VIEWS UK and the VIEWS News issues.
They will also be automatically informed of any VIEWS UK updates.

Enjoy!……………..Phil

I am presenting a Hands-on Tutorial at PharmaSUG 2024 (19-22 May 2024) in Baltimore MD

I am presenting a 1-hour Hands-on Tutorial at PharmaSUG 2024 about defensive SAS programming. The tutorial will actually be in 3 parts:

Defensive SAS Programming – how to program, even if you don’t know exactly what the input data will look like.
Writing Reusable Macros – how to write SAS macros that don’t mess up the rest of your code.
Validating ODS Graphics – how to design the data rendered by ODS Graphics, so your QC programmer can validate the data, instead of trying to match your output.

PharmaSUG 2024 will be held from 19-22 May 2024 in the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor, 401 West Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, USA. I don’t know when I will be presenting yet, but it won’t be on 22 May (the last day of the conference).

I am hoping to have published a new SAS-related book in time for PharmaSUG, which should be available to purchase from me as a paperback or ebook at the conference. It is currently being reviewed.

Finally, and I do mean finally, this will be my last conference representing my company, Holland Numerics Limited, as I will be closing that company at the end of August 2024. After that date I will just be an individual presenter (if anyone really wants me to speak!).

I can also call myself a Presenter at PharmaSUG 2024!

Free advertising for active recruiters globally! SAS-related Jobs from Recruiters in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA in March 2024

Looking for a SAS-related job?

There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:

Country	Jobs Advertised	From Company
Netherlands	SAS RCM/IRM consultant permanent positions	Skywaves Rise
USA	SAS DI developer permanent positions	BECU
Europe	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
Europe	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
Philippines	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
India	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice

Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.

Recruiters looking for candidates

I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.

If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:

The free trial will be extended by an additional calendar month only when a job is posted, and will expire automatically if no job has been posted in a calendar month.
The posted jobs must be in some way SAS-related.

Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 04Apr2024 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.

The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:

Position	Region	Percentage of Membership	Members
1	Indian Sub-continent	37.6%	147
2	UK	23.5%	92
3	The Americas	22.5%	88
4	Europe	10.0%	39
5	Rest of the World	6.4%	25

Free advertising for active recruiters globally! SAS-related Jobs from Recruiters in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA in February 2024

Looking for a SAS-related job?

There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:

Country	Jobs Advertised	From Company
USA	SAS DI developer permanent positions	BECU
Europe	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
Europe	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
Philippines	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
India	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice

Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.

Recruiters looking for candidates

I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.

If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:

The free trial will be extended by an additional calendar month only when a job is posted, and will expire automatically if no job has been posted in a calendar month.
The posted jobs must be in some way SAS-related.

Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 08Mar2024 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.

The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:

Position	Region	Percentage of Membership	Members
1	Indian Sub-continent	36.4%	139
2	UK	24.1%	92
3	The Americas	23.0%	88
4	Europe	10.2%	39
5	Rest of the World	6.3%	24

If you think I am a Curious Thinker, then please vote for me in the SAS Customer Recognition Awards

If you think I am a Curious Thinker, then please vote for me in the SAS Customer Recognition Awards. Note that, once you have opened this link, you will need to log in to you SAS Profile to vote by clicking Like! Voting will take place between 22Jan2024 and 02Feb2024. Please do not try to vote after 02Feb2024, as your vote will not be counted.

Here is the link: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Customer-Recognition-Awards/2024-Customer-Awards-Holland-Numerics-Ltd-Curious-Thinker/cns-p/911492

I first used SAS 79.5 software at the University of London Computer Centre in 1981.

I enjoy helping my clients and encouraging new SAS programmers, but what I still love doing is SAS programming. After over 40 years of SAS programming I can now think in the SAS language, so, if I can sort out a solution to a problem in my head, I am able to write out a rough draft of an entire program!

In 2017 I won the first Lifetime Achievement Award from SAS UK, and my wife congratulated me by saying that it meant that I could retire then. It has taken me 7 years to agree with her, but until then I will still be doing my interim measure of freelance SAS programming!

43 years working with SAS software has been my working lifetime. 43 years working with SAS software has been an achievement, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. The only part I am missing would be an award!? (Maybe?)

Thank you if you do vote for me, and I will forgive you if you do not. 😉

Free advertising for active recruiters globally! SAS-related Jobs from Recruiters in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA in January 2024

Looking for a SAS-related job?

There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:

Country	Jobs Advertised	From Company
USA	SAS DI developer permanent positions	BECU
Europe	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
Europe	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
Philippines	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
UK	Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
India	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice

Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.

Recruiters looking for candidates

I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.

If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:

The free trial will be extended by an additional calendar month only when a job is posted, and will expire automatically if no job has been posted in a calendar month.
The posted jobs must be in some way SAS-related.

Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 08Feb2024 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.

The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:

Position	Region	Percentage of Membership	Members
1	Indian Sub-continent	35.7%	134
2	UK	24.5%	92
3	The Americas	23.2%	87
4	Europe	10.1%	38
5	Rest of the World	6.4%	24

VIEWS News 74 (2023Q4) has been published!

VIEWS News issue 74 has now been published.

Supporting all Foundation SAS programmers, this newsletter continues to bring you information to make the most of SAS 9, which, according to SAS Explore 2023, still has a long life ahead of it. This newsletter issue includes examples of how to make heat maps usable from LeRoy Bessler, I have asked ChatGPT to write another SAS program and Richard Carson continues his discussion about configuring of SAS processes without editing them in the fourth part of a series of articles about KT. As usual I have publicised some more SAS‑related events for the next few months, and I have also added more SAS formats, options and functions that you may, or may not, have come across before, but you might find interesting, and even useful.

To be able to read this and all previous issues you will need to follow these steps:

If you have not already registered on this blog site, go to blog.hollandnumerics.org.uk and register for free membership.
Once successfully registered, click the menu item [Subscriptions for Forums and Features] > [Request access to the VIEWS UK forum] to request free access to the VIEWS UK forum, then add your name and email address to the form before clicking [Send].
On receipt of a request for an existing blog member I will register them for free access to the VIEWS UK forum, and then send them an email to confirm this.
The next time they log onto the blog site they will see VIEWS UK in the forum list, where you will find the latest issue of VIEWS News, forum topics to find the backissues, functions and formats in every published issue, and a tag cloud covering every forum on the site to which you have access, including VIEWS UK and the VIEWS News issues.
They will also be automatically informed of any VIEWS UK updates.

Enjoy!……………..Phil

Free advertising for active recruiters globally! SAS-related Jobs from Recruiters in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA in December 2023

Looking for a SAS-related job?

There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:

Country	Jobs Advertised	From Company
USA	SAS DI developer permanent positions	BECU
Europe	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
Europe	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
Philippines	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
UK	Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
India	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice

Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.

Recruiters looking for candidates

I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.

If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:

The free trial will be extended by an additional calendar month only when a job is posted, and will expire automatically if no job has been posted in a calendar month.
The posted jobs must be in some way SAS-related.

Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 03Jan2024 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.

The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:

Position	Region	Percentage of Membership	Members
1	Indian Sub-continent	36.9%	313
2	The Americas	22.8%	193
3	UK	19.6%	166
4	Europe	14.2%	120
5	Rest of the World	6.6%	56

My SAS courses in LMS now have downloadable certificates

My SAS courses are made up of sections containing SAS-related topics, with new topics posted over time. The LMS versions of these courses can be accessed using the menu: Forums, Features and Subscriptions > LMS Courses + Certificates (if you are logged in with a Programming membership) or Online SAS course – Home page (to view the topics when you are logged in).

Note that the courses with certificates below are not available to registered members with Free membership, so to upgrade to Programming membership for only GBP 5/month please click here. It is certainly possible to complete all of these courses in a single calendar month while you are a Programming member.

Please feel free to post these certificates on your favourite social media platforms to show that you have completed my SAS courses.

When you click the LMS Courses + Certificates link a new page will open showing the available courses.

If you have not yet started a course, then the page will include [Course Overview] and [START COURSE]. However, when a course has been completed the web page will look like this:

Clicking on [Course Overview] will display the topics in the course.
Clicking on [VISIT RESULTS] will open the Course Completed web page:

This page includes the topics in the course.
Clicking on [FIND MORE COURSES] will open the Courses Overview web page.
Clicking on [VIEW CERTIFICATE] will open your downloadable certificate in a PDF file like those below:

Free advertising for active recruiters globally! SAS-related Jobs from Recruiters in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA in November 2023

Looking for a SAS-related job?

There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:

Country	Jobs Advertised	From Company
USA	SAS DI developer permanent positions	BECU
Europe	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
Europe	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
Philippines	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
UK	Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
India	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice

Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.

Recruiters looking for candidates

I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.

If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:

The free trial will be extended by an additional calendar month only when a job is posted, and will expire automatically if no job has been posted in a calendar month.
The posted jobs must be in some way SAS-related.

Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 06Dec2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.

The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:

Position	Region	Percentage of Membership	Members
1	Indian Sub-continent	36.8%	312
2	The Americas	22.8%	193
3	UK	19.6%	166
4	Europe	14.2%	120
5	Rest of the World	6.6%	56

Free advertising for active recruiters globally! SAS-related Jobs from Recruiters in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA in October 2023

Looking for a SAS-related job?

There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, Europe, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:

Country	Jobs Advertised	From Company
USA	SAS DI developer permanent positions	BECU
Europe	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
Europe	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical contract positions	ClinChoice
UK	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
Philippines	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice
UK	SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
UK	Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions	Pazikas Group
India	Pharmaceutical permanent positions	ClinChoice

Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.

Recruiters looking for candidates

I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.

If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:

The free trial will be extended by an additional calendar month only when a job is posted, and will expire automatically if no job has been posted in a calendar month.
The posted jobs must be in some way SAS-related.

Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 01Nov2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.

The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:

Position	Region	Percentage of Membership	Members
1	Indian Sub-continent	36.8%	311
2	The Americas	22.8%	193
3	UK	19.6%	166
4	Europe	14.1%	119
5	Rest of the World	6.6%	56

SAS Explore: SAS 9.4M8 will be supported until Jan2028, with more maintenance releases scheduled

At SAS Explore, which was held in Las Vegas in September 2023, the future of SAS 9 was clarified in https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2023/09/29/sas-9-and-sas-eg/.

SAS 9.4M8 will be supported until Jan2028.
There will be future releases of SAS 9, so it will be supported well beyond Jan2028.
SAS Studio will continue to be the best environment for SAS Viya.
However, Enterprise Guide will soon be able to access both SAS 9 and SAS Viya.