14 June 2022 – New Early Access (EA) release

The WPS Analytics Early Access programme enables you to get early visibility of upcoming features. You can find out more about the EA programme on our blog.

There is a new quarterly release available, version 5.0 EA2. This release contains the maintenance updates from the latest WPS Analytics GA release plus new enhancements and features. Here are just a few headline items.

Workbench and Workflow

• Output written to the Console log can now be saved to an external file.
• In the Project Explorer view:
  • Program code created and stored in Workflow files is now included in search results.
  • Parameters can now be Dynamically populated when Running a Hub API created from a WPS Project.
• A Workflow can now be converted to a custom block and used as a processing block in a different workflow.
  • An output dataset from a custom workflow can be specified using the new Output Dataset block.
  • A Workflow converted to a custom block is listed in the Custom group.
• A sas7bdat dataset can now be imported into, and exported from, a Workflow.
• The Query and Filter blocks now support contains conditions when searching for a substring in a character variable.

SAS language support

• Support for the ODS HTML5 output destination.
• Support for the G3GRID procedure.
• Support for the HBAR3D and VBAR3D statements in the GCHART procedure.
• Support for the CODE statement in the GLIMMIX procedure.
• Support for the ABSORB and REPEATED statements in the GLM procedure.
• Support for the QLIM procedure.

To see details of all the new features and enhancements introduced in the Early Access versions of WPS Analytics 5.0, refer to the attached What's new in WPS version 5.0.