WPS (World Programming System) provides data analysis using the language of SAS. Use your exisiting SAS code without software from the SAS institute. Run MXG with WPS. Request a free evaluation of WPS. World Programming Limited develop the World Programming System (WPS), a SAS interpreter / SAS alternative.

Release Information
Current Version

Version Information

The table below identifies the current version of WPS on general release for all supported platforms.


Version ID Date Released What's New & Fixed
2.4.0.1 12-Nov-2009 readme.txt

 

General Overview of WPS

If you would like a more general overview of all the current features of WPS, not just the new features and fixes summarised below, please refer to the WPS modules section.

Summary of Main New and Fixed Items in WPS Version 2.4
(First Released 04-Oct-2009)

  • This release of WPS introduces the classification of the various WPS support features into discrete modules.
  • New WPS SDK module released to provide ability for users to create custom language items.
  • WPS Statistics support expanded to include Procs REG, and LOGISTIC.
  • WPS Graphing support expanded with new language items including support for PIE charts.
  • New WPS Engine for Oracle released.
  • The existing WPS Engine for ODBC, the WPS Engine for MySQL, and all SQL operations have been optimised to dramatically improve performance and provide additional associated language support.
  • The I/O subsystem of WPS has been re-worked to overcome certain limitations of WPS version 2.3, in particular on the z/OS platform.
  • WPS is now supported on the following UNIX platforms: AIX, Linux, Solaris and Linux on System z (optionally utilising the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) hardware for z9 and z10 Mainframe systems).
  • WPS is now supported on Apple Mac OS X.
  • This release of WPS has around 200 new language items. You can find an up-to-date list of all supported language items in downloadable spreadsheets in the language support section of this website.
  • Many other general bug fixes and enhancements.

To read a summary of the main new features in version 2.4, please refer to the 2.4 history section.

Documents Concerning the Current Release

All the fixes, new items and any migration steps required from earlier releases of WPS, can be found in the readme.txt file supplied with WPS. It is also available to download from the link at top of this page.

There are more on-line documents that you can download or view concerning the current release of WPS, including installation guides, user guides and language support documentation.