Known issues with SAS
If you plan to use a SAS engine in Spotfire Statistics Services, you should known issues.
- Sending a zero-row, zero-column data set to the SAS engine generates an error. If the SAS script creates a zero-row, multiple-column output data set, it is read as a zero-row, zero-column data set.
- SAS engines cannot handle all
Spotfire data types. Sending raw (binary) data to a SAS engine generates an error.
Spotfire
SingleReal
andInteger
values are sent to the SAS engine as doubles. The SAS engine reads the double infinity value asNA
. An empty string value (“”
) is returned to Spotfire asNA
. - Variable names and column names must respect the SAS scripting restrictions (that is, they cannot start with a digit, or have less than 32 characters).
Parent topic: SAS and MATLAB Code for the Server