SAS 9.4 Language Reference, 6th Edition

What's New in the 9.4 Base SAS

Language Reference: Concepts

Overview

SAS 9.4 has the following changes and enhancements:

• in SAS 9.4M5, a new AES2 on page 739 encryption is supported

• in SAS 9.4M5, you can access SAS Cloud Analytics Services from your SAS session

when you license and install SAS Viya 3.2

• in SAS 9.4M5, new AvenirNextforSAS and HelveticaNeueforSAS fonts replace the

Avenir Next LT W04, Avenir Next Cyr W04, and Helvetica LT Pro fonts

• in SAS 9.4M4, new TrueType fonts were added

• in SAS 9.4M3, new Avenir Next TrueType fonts were added

• new LOCKDOWN statement and system option in SAS 9.4M1

• in SAS 9.4M2, enhancements to the LOCKDOWN feature

• in SAS 9.4M2, font slanting and emboldening features were added. For more

information, see “Slanting and Emboldening Fonts”.

• universal printing enhancements to support additional graphic output types and

animation for GIF and SVG files

• buffer size specification support for SAS DATA step views

• new multilingual and Asian monolingual TrueType fonts were added

• support for extended attributes on SAS data sets and variables

• enhanced functionality to extend the observation count for 32-bit SAS data files

• enhancements to SAS data file protection

• enhanced functionality for VIEWTABLE column headings

New and Enhanced SAS Language Elements for

CAS

In SAS 9.4M5, if you have licensed SAS Viya, then you can access SAS Cloud Analytic

Services (CAS) from your SAS 9.4 environment. See “What is SAS Cloud Analytic

Services?” on page 403 for an introduction to CAS.

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