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Developer(s)
  
World Programming

Type
  
Statistics

Stable release
  
3.3 / December, 2016

License
  
Proprietary

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Initial release
  
2002; 15 years ago (2002)

Website
  
www.worldprogramming.com

Operating system
  
Windows, macOS, z/OS, Linux on z Systems, Linux, Linux for Arm8 64-bit, PowerLinux, AIX, Solaris

The World Programming System, also known as WPS, is a software product developed by a company called World Programming. WPS allows users to create, edit and run programs written in the language of SAS.

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The program was the subject of a lawsuit by SAS Institute. The EU Court of Justice ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.

About

WPS can use programs written in the language of SAS without the need for translating them into any other language. In this regard WPS is compatible with the SAS system. WPS is a language interpreter able to process the language of SAS and produce similar results.

WPS is available to run on Mainframe z/OS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Linux for Arm8 64-bit, PowerLinux, Solaris, AIX and Linux on Mainframe System z.

On all supported platforms, programs written in the language of SAS can be executed from a WPS command line interface, often referred to as running in batch mode.

WPS can also be used from a graphical user interface known as the WPS Workbench for managing, editing and running programs written in the language of SAS. The WPS Workbench user interface is based on Eclipse.

WPS version 3 (released in February 2012) provides a new client/server architecture that allows the WPS Workbench GUI to execute SAS programs on remote server installations of WPS in a network or cloud. The resulting output, data sets, logs, etc., can then all be viewed and manipulated from inside the Workbench as if the workloads had been executed locally. SAS programs do not require any special language statements to use this feature.

In 2010 World Programming defended its use of the language of SAS in the High Court of England and Wales in SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd.

Summary of main features

  • Runs on Windows, macOS, z/OS on Mainframe System z, Linux on Mainframe System z, Linux, Linux for Arm8 64-bit, PowerLinux, AIX, Solaris
  • An integrated development environment based on Eclipse for Linux, macOS and Windows.
  • Support for language of SAS elements.
  • Support for the language of SAS Macros.
  • Matrix Programming support using PROC IML.
  • Multi-threading support.
  • Support for generating band plots, bar charts, box plots, contour plots, dendrogram plots, ellipse plots, heat maps, histograms, needle plots, pie charts, reference lines, scatter plots, series plots and vector plots.
  • Support for statistical procedures ACECLUS, ANOVA, BOXPLOT, CANCORR, CANDISC, CLUSTER, CORR, CORRESP, DISCRIM, DISTANCE, FACTOR, FASTCLUS, FREQ, GENMAOD, GLM, GLMMOD, KDE, LIFEREG, LIFETEST, LOESS, LOGISTIC, MEANS, MI, MIXED, MODECLUS, NESTED, NLIN, NPAR1WAY, PHREG, PRINCOMP, PROBIT, REG, SCORE, STANDARD, SIMNORMAL, STDSIZE, STEPDISC, SUMMARY, SURVEYSELECT, TREE, TTEST, UNIVARIATE, VARCLUS, VARCOMP
  • Support for time series procedures ARIMA, EXPAND, FORECAST, X12
  • Support for ODS.
  • Reads and writes SAS datasets (compressed or uncompressed).
  • No restriction on the number of data records that can be processed.
  • Actian Matrix (previously known as ParAccel), Access DASD, DB2, Greenplum, Hadoop, Informix, Kognitio, MySQL, Netezza, ODBC, OLEDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAND, SPSS/PSPP, SQL Server, Sybase, Sybase IQ, Teradata, VSAM, Vertica and XML.
  • Support for SAS Tape Format.
  • Direct output of reports to CSV , PDF and HTML.
  • Support to connect WPS systems programmatically, remote submit parts of a program to execute on connected remote servers, upload and download data between the connected systems.
  • Support for Hadoop
  • Support for R
  • Support for Python

    • Industry recognition

    Gartner recognized World Programming in their Cool Vendors in Data Science, 2014 Report.

    References

    World Programming System Wikipedia
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