What is SAS? And what the use of it in Mainframe?

[Aseem_Forum]

Hi,

Could someone please advise that where exactly is SAS is used? I came to knowabout this while in a class.

[Anuj Dhawan]

You can start with the sticky in this part of the Forum: http://www.zmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=37

To add in more - SAS, http://www.sas.com, was started as the product "Statistical Analysis Software". These days, SAS has grown to become almost a standard for report generation and data integration. There are many software products that can generate output data in native SAS-dataset format. In Mainframes SAS is heavily used along with CA's MICS product, Merills' MXG to process SMF records and to generate reporting on system usage, capacity planning, chargebacks etc.

[enrico-sorichetti]

what about googling ???
here is the link to the SAS home page
http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html

[Aseem_Forum]

Thanks ANuj and enrico-sorichetti.

enrico, google can give lots of those links but can not compare the experience of professionals like you. Sometimes you search the web and don't really get or a get a odd meaning of things, in such times it's better to understand things from experienced people from ground up and that's why I have asked here. In case that has bothered you, please forgive me.