Tools->Options

•ActiveX – Default, Slow and Memory intensive•GIF – Smallest footprint, Fast•JPEG– also Small footprint, Fast

This gives you a list of columns in alphabetical order and the properties without having to open the dataset.

Properties From the Server List

Copy to clipboard allows you to paste the information in xls

Can see general information about the dataset, rows, columns.Note: only columns appear if the data is from a database

From the Process Flow

Select Data Exploration History, Add,Find your dataset Explore your data

Similar in concept to an FTP

Upload files from your local PC to the remote machine where your SAS Workspace is running

Download files from your remote SAS Workspace to a folder on your local PC

DETAILED BLOG POST

LINK TO TASK

Build standalone program examples that include the data “inline”

No need to supply a SAS7BDAT file and a SAS program file together to make it work

Create a portable version of the data that you can transport from one SAS environment and use easily on another environment

Capture the structure of the data, with the columns, formats, labels, and lengths -- even if you don't need all of the records

Reads the contents of the active data set

Generates a DATA step program with the appropriate ATTRIB statements for each column

Includes all of the data records as DATALINES

DETAILED BLOG POST

LINK TO TASK

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/11/25/11-custom-tasks/