World Programming System: Difference between revisions

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| caption = WPS Workbench running on Windows Vista

| developer = [[World Programming]]

| latest_release_version = 2.34.50

| latest_release_date = MayOct, 20082009

| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS X]], [[z/OS]], [[UnixLinux on zSeries]], [[Linux]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]], [[Solaris (operating system)|UNIXSolaris]]

| genre = [[Numerical Analysis]]

| license = [[Proprietary]]

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WPS can use programs developed with the [[SAS System]] without the need for translating them into any other language. It also follows that programs developed with WPS can be used with the SAS System. In this regard WPS is compatible with the SAS system.

The WPS Core (or the information-processing code) is written in C++ and Assembler. The WPS Core alone handles all the SAS language statements, not the IDE. The WPS Core does not in any way utilise any interpreted JAVA code in order to process SAS statements. This same WPS Core is utilised by WPS running on the [[z/OS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS X]] and various [[Unix|UNIX]] platforms.

When installed on a Windows system, WPS has a [[graphical user interface]] (known as the '''WPS Workbench''') for managing, editing and running programs in the [[SAS language]]. The user interface is based on [[Eclipse (software)]].

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==Summary of Main Features==

{{Expand list|date=August 2008}}

* Runs on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS X]], [[z/OS|z/OS on Mainframe System z]], [[Linux on zSeries|Linux on Mainframe System z]], [[Linux]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]

* Runs on [[z/OS|Mainframe z/OS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[Unix|UNIX]].

* An [[integrated development environment]] based on [[Eclipse (software)]] for the Windows platform.

* Support for SAS language elements.

* Support for the SAS Macro language.

* Support for graphical output.

* Support for statistical analytics.

* Support for ODS.

* Reads SAS datasets ([[data compression|compressed]] or uncompressed).

* Writes to SAS7BDAT files.

* No restriction on the number of [[data (computing)|data]] records that can be processed.

* Access [[IBM DB2|DB2]], [[Teradata]], [[Virtual storage access method|VSAM]], [[PSPP]]/[[SPSS]], [[Microsoft SQL Server]], [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] or any [[Open Database Connectivity|ODBC]] compatible data source.

* SAS Tape Format.

* Direct output of reports to [[Comma-separated values|CSV]] and [[HTML]].