Hey, we’re really excited to officially launch (or perhaps we should say “re-launch”) this website! We’ve been testing the macros under SAS 9.4 in MVS and SAS 9.3 for Windows and everything is working as expected! Visit and bookmark the…
Only do what only you should do
One of the reasons IT systems become complicated is the tendency to use computers to do things that humans should do and to use humans to do the things that computers should do. You’d think this would be the one…
Backup Early, Backup Often
This is a quick tip on how to put a special “button” on your SAS Toolbar in SAS Display Manager that can allow you to quickly backup your SAS programs to unique date-time-stamped files in PC SAS. I do this…
Redundant Array of Independent Drives
Here’s a whitepaper that I assembled a few years back that is a primer on R.A.I.D. – “Redundant Array of Independent Drives” (sometimes “Disks”). Most of the paper was assembling comments from other sources and was written to give really…
“Macroitis” – A Virus or a Drug
Yeah, I’ve written a lot of papers about SAS programming in my day. But my all-time favorite paper is not one that I’ve written. The one paper that I have read that has had the most impact on my programming…
%PUSHTITLE and %POPTITLE
As a part of our pre-launch, we want to start rolling out a few of the tips and tricks that we have accumulated over the years. Today we highlight the SAS Macros %PUSHTITLE and %POPTITLE. We use these macros any…
Your top two questions
So we can make the launch of this website most effective, please comment below on the top two SAS related issues you’d really like us to address. We want to make your time valuable and provide the best value that…
Back by popular demand!
A few years back we closed down the SPIKEware website, thinking that we were done with the world of “Have SAS, Will Travel” contract programming. After well over a decade of success, we made some changes in our personal lives…