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 programs written in the SAS programming language.
| World Programming System (WPS) | |
|---|---|
 WPS Workbench running on Windows Vista | |
| Developer(s) | World Programming |
| Stable release | 2.3.4
/ November, 2008 |
| Operating system | Windows, z/OS |
| Type | Numerical Analysis |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.worldprogramming.com |
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, Windows and 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).
Summary of Main Features
- Runs on Mainframe z/OS, Windows and 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 ODS.
- Reads SAS datasets (compressed or uncompressed).
- Writes to SAS7BDAT files.
- No restriction on the number of data records that can be processed.
- Access DB2, Teradata, VSAM, PSPP/SPSS, Microsoft SQL Server or any ODBC compatible data source.
- SAS Tape Format.
- Direct output of reports to CSV and HTML.
See also
- World Programming - The company who develop WPS