
Students are STRONGLY advised to have access to a local copy of SAS. SAS can also be accessed through Penn State's WebLabs service although there are limitations to how it may be used in the web-based environment. Please note that the SAS Student License and Media expires annually in June.

See the Statistical Software page for information regarding obtaining a copy.

This application is used directly or referred to in many of the online STAT courses at Penn State. However, the legacy behavior remains in the driver for sites that already have server names defined in the TCP/IP services file."SAS is the leader in business intelligence and predictive analytics software." This enhancement avoids the need to edit the TCP/IP services file. In SAS 9.3, a simplified syntax of two underscores and the port number are used for both local and SAS/SHARE server access. The service name was used to define the server name, and the driver used the service name to look up the TCP/IP port number to use for communication with the SAS server. In previous releases of the SAS Drivers for ODBC, it was necessary to edit the TCP/IP services file for the client machine with a service name.

The 64-bit driver does not support connections to the SAS® Scalable Performance Data (SPD) Server. Now, 64-bit ODBC-compliant applications can use SAS Drivers for ODBC in native mode. The December 2011 release of SAS 9.3 includes a 64-bit driver for Windows 圆4 operating environments.
