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Ask the Expert: Proc CAS and CAS actions

Part of the SAS Ask the Expert series

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About the webinar

CAS actions are the core functionality of the SAS Viya CAS server. They represent the lowest-level actions we can ask CAS to perform. This webinar describes them, with examples of usage, comparison with other techniques and answers to commonly asked questions.

What you’ll learn:

  • The SAS Viya environment in brief
  • What is a CAS action?
  • Proc CAS vs. Proc casutil
  • A simple example – simple.summary
  • Calling CAS actions from other languages
  • The Gateway action set
  • The datastep.runcode action, and a cautionary note
  • Further reading and viewing

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About the expert

Simon Arnold

Peter Hobart 

Sr Associate  Customer Success Manager, SAS

Peter is a certified SAS advanced programmer, data integration developer and SAS platform administrator. He has worked at SAS for 26 years, in customer support, education, architecture and now customer success. He has written several SAS courses and questions for the SAS certification exams, presented at SAS forums and customer events.

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