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  I attended a very informative meeting yesterday in Harrisburg, PA.  The
SAS Institute sponsored the presentations and the local Sales and Technical
Marketers provided the information.


Daryl R. Hoffman                The Pennsylvania State University
Center for Academic Computing   Senior Applications Programmer/Analyst
email:  drh4@email.cac.psu.edu  Resource Administration
office: (814) 865-0845          fax: (814) 863-7049
  The presentation dealt with SAS 6.08 and the new features added to allow
managers and applications programmers to best utilize the many different
parts of the SAS System for Information Delivery.  The demonstration included
SAS/ASSIST, SAS/AF and FSP and also showed the new product for object-oriented
programming, SAS/EIS.

  The on-line demonstration allowed us to see first hand how the SAS System
could be used to move data from the mainframe to the PC and back.  The
Technical Rep was using EXTRA! to allow for the Async connection to the MVS
platform at SAS Institute in Cary.  The response time was fairly good for
9600 and the two sessions running under Windows and on the mainframe
simultaneously seemed rather clean.  SAS/CONNECT was the tool used to transfer
the data sets between the client and the server.

  Overall the presentation was very good and if you get a chance to have SAS
bring this to your group or to attend a similar informational meeting don't
pass it up.  There was no talk of sales, unless if occurred offline with
the marketing rep.

  I can't wait for the new AF Frame entries coming with SAS 6.08.  There is
also a Query selection added to SAS/ASSIST in 6.08, which uses PROC SQL
to generate queries against your data sets or tables.

  For those of you in the Harrisburg area, SAS will be returning in September
and is asking for suggested topics for their presentations.  Information will
be sent out at a later time. (Promo off !)