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

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The '''World Programming System''', also known as '''WPS''', is a software product developed by a company called [[World Programming]]. WPS allows users to create, edit and run [[computer programs|programs]] written in the [[SAS language|language of SAS]]. The latest release of WPS covers a significant gap in use of WPS. It now provides PROC REG and PROC LOGISTIC support which are two mainly used statistical procedures. With inclusion of these it provides a complete suite for delivering on a large number of analytical problems.

WPS can use programs written in the [[SAS language|language of SAS]] without the need for translating them into any other language. In this regard WPS is compatible with the SAS system. WPS is a language interpreter able to process the language of SAS and produce similar results.

The WPS Core (or the information-processing code) is written in C++ and Assembler. The WPS Core alone handles all the language of SAS statements, not the IDE. The WPS Core does not in any way utilise any interpreted Java code in order to process language of 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.

WPS is available to run on [[z/OS|Mainframe z/OS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS X]], [[Linux]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]] and [[Linux on zSeries|Linux on Mainframe System z]].

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

WhenOn installedall onsupported platforms, programs written in the language of SAS can be executed from a WindowsWPS systemcommand line interface, often referred to as running in batch mode. WPS hason all other supported platforms (with the exception of the Mainframe z/OS platform) can also be used from a [[graphical user interface]] (known as the '''WPS Workbench''') for managing, editing and running programs written in the [[SAS language|language of SAS]]. The WPS Workbench user interface is based on [[Eclipse (software)]].

The recent case of World Programming versus SAS Institute can be read [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html#para35 here].

WPS version 3 (released in February 2012) provides a new client/server architecture that allowes the WPS Workbench GUI to execute SAS programs on remote server installations of WPS in a network or cloud. The resulting output, data sets, logs, etc, can then all be viewed and manipulated from inside the Workbench as if the workloads had been executed locally. SAS programs do not require any special language statements to use this feature.

The recent2010 court case ofbetween WorldSAS ProgrammingInstitute versusand SASWorld InstituteProgramming can be read [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/1829.html#para35 here].

==Summary of Main Features==

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* 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]]

* An [[integrated development environment]] based on [[Eclipse (software)]] for theall Windowssupported platformplatforms platforms except Mainframe z/OS.

* Support for language of SAS elements.

* Support for the language of SAS Macros.

* Multi-threaded sorting and summarising.

* Support for generating bar charts, pie charts and graphical plots.

* Support for statistical procedures ANOVA, CLUSTER, FASTCLUSCORR, LOGISTICDISTANCE, REGFACTOR, SCOREFASTCLUS, SURVEYSELECTFREQ, TREEGLM, CORRGLMMOD, FREQLOGISTIC, MEANS, PRINCOMP, REG, SCORE, STANDARD, STDIZE, SUMMARY, SURVEYSELECT, TREE, TTEST, UNIVARIATE

* Support for ODS.

* Reads and writes 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 [[Direct access storage device|DASD]], [[IBM DB2|DB2]], [[Greenplum]], [[IBM Informix|Informix]], [[MySQL]], [[Open Database Connectivity|ODBC]], [[OLE DB|OLEDB]], [[Oracle Database|Oracle]], [[SAND CDBMS|SAND]], [[SPSS]]/[[PSPP]], [[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL Server]], [[Sybase]], [[Netezza]], [[Teradata]], [[Virtual storage access method|VSAM]] and [[Direct access storage device|DASDXML]].

* Support for SAS Tape Format.

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