carey.smoak@roche.com wrote:
> Hi SAS-Lers,
>
> This message is mainly intended for users who use SAS in a Windows
> environment and mainly for people in the Pharma/Biotech industry.
>
> Here at work, we use PC SAS to develop our programs. Then we do our
> final runs on a Windows server in batch mode. By the way, we are using
> SAS 9.1.3.
>
> Consequently, we mainly use Display Manager to write our program. One
> of my co-workers (a contract SAS progammer) has a particular
> functionality that he likes in Display Manager. However, this
> functionality is not working in SAS 9.1.3 like it did with previous
> versions of SAS. So, he contacted SAS tech support and they told him
> that SAS is no longer supporting the development of the Display Manager
> and is concentrating on developing the functionality of Enterprise
> Guide. In fact the person at SAS tech support told my co-worker that
> the Display Manager is being phased-out in favor of Enterprise Guide.
> They told my co-worker that he could configure Enterprise Guide to work
> like the Display Manager and that the functionality that he wanted was
> available in Enterprise Guide.
>
> My question are:
>
> 1) Has anyone else run into any functionality problems with Diplay
> Manager in version 9.1.3?
>
> 2) Is anyone using Enterprise Guide in a manner similar to a Display
> Manager? If so, do you like Enterprise Guide any better or worse than
> the Display Manager.
>
> Thanks in advance for your input!
>
> Regards,
>
> Carey G. Smoak
> Principal Clinical Analyst
> Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
> 4300 Hacienda Drive
> Pleasanton, CA 94588
> carey.smoak@roche.com

Well, my gripe re loss of functionality is no longer being able to
resize the field names box in explorer.

If SAS is moving to enterprise guide, does that mean that platforms
other than windows will actually get it?: