Introduction to the SAS Environment

Purpose

In this section, you will learn about the various ways that you can run SAS programs. More importantly, it explains the different modes that SAS can run in, and which modes are best, depending on the types of jobs that you are doing.
This section introduces the SAS windowing environment, which is the default processing mode.

Prerequisites

To understand the discussions in this section, you should be familiar with the basics of DATA step programming that are presented in Overview of DATA Step Processing.

Operating Environment Differences

Even though SAS has a different appearance for each operating environment, most of the actions that are available from the menus are the same.
One of the biggest ...

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