31 March 2020 – WPS Analytics 4.2 General Availability (GA) release

The WPS Analytics 4.2 GA release contains new features and enhancements, and maintenance updates to existing functionality. Here are just a few headline items.

Workflow:

• You can create connections in a workflow to database tables without importing data, and use these connections as input to workflow blocks.
• You can now drag-and-drop tables from the Database Explorer and use as input datasets to blocks in a Workflow.
• You can join tables and query data from tables in the new Query block.
• You can address selection bias in a model using the new Reject Inference block.
• Models can now be output from the Binning block.
• You can export data from a workflow to a database using the new Database Export block.

SAS language support:

• The Output Delivery System (ODS) module:
  • The ODS LAYOUT and ODS TEXT statements have been added.
  • The ODS RTF destination has been added.
  • The ODS LISTING destination has been significantly revised to improve layout control of output.
• WPS Analytics now supports connections to MariaDB and MySQL using multi-threaded versions of the library connection statements (LIBNAME statements).
• The WPS Engine for Teradata now supports:
  • TPT bulk loading facility on the library connection statements (LIBNAME statements).
  • Dataset options, including bulk-loading, have been introduced with this release.
• The WPS Core module:
  • The CONNECT USING statement has been added to the SQL procedure.
  • The UNIVARIATE procedure now supports the INSET statement.
• The WPS statistics module:
  • The STDRATE procedure has been added.
  • The WEIGHT statement has been added to the MIXED procedure.
  • The PARTITION and PERFORMANCE statements have been added to the GLMSELECT procedure.
• The WPS Time Series module:
  • The ESM, SEVERITY, SPECTRA, TIMESERIES procedures have been added.

To find out further information about this release:

• For details of all the new features and enhancements, refer to What's New in WPS version 4.2.
• For details of the updates to existing functionality, refer to the release notes.