News

WPS Version 2.5 Released

Providing performance gains, additional data engines and the continued expansion of language support with over 130 new language items including new PROCS

LONDON, UK - 12 August 2010 - World Programming today introduced WPS version 2.5. WPS software provides support for the language of SAS for processing data on workstations, servers and mainframe systems and amongst the many new features in the latest release is the introduction of multi-threading in PROC SORT and the option of true 64-bit versions for workstations and servers to boost performance over previous versions. This latest release of WPS also sees the continued expansion of the language support.

Summary of Main New Features:

• 64-Bit and 32-Bit Support
  WPS 2.5 introduces the option of a 64-bit version as well as the 32-bit version. Although the 64-bit release will provide performance gains over the 32-bit version, language and feature support is identical.
• Multi-Threaded Sorting
  Users with multiple CPU cores or hyper-threads can expect significant performance gains with newly added multi-threading support in all sorting operations including PROC SORT.
• Core Language
  WPS 2.5 continues the expansion of it's core language support. New in this release is INFILE User Exits, ISPF functionality, many new Procedures such as CPORT, CIMPORT, FORMS, SOURCE, PDS, basic support for PDSCOPY, and many other new language items.
• File & Directory Manipulation Functions
  New support for a suite of file and directory manipulation functions such as DOPEN, FOPEN, DREAD, FREAD, etc.
• Statistical Analysis
  The procedure support in WPS Statistics is expanded to include SURVEYSELECT, FASTCLUS and ANOVA.
• Graphing
  Support in WPS Graphing is expanded to include many new language items including PLOT2.
• OLEDB
  A new WPS Engine for OLEDB provides support for accessing third party data sources supporting the OLEDB interface.
• Microsoft® Excel & Access
  Direct IMPORT and EXPORT to Microsoft Excel is now supported under WPS Engine for DB FIles The new OLEDB support in WPS 2.5 provides direct support for Microsoft Access.
• Informix®
  A new WPS Engine for Informix provides dedicated support for accessing the Informix database.
• SASDASD
  For Mainframe users there is new support for accesing SASDASD data files.

More Information:

Existing Users should visit www.teamwpc.co.uk/support/release/wps where you can download a readme file containing more information about all the new features and fixes in WPS 2.5.

New Users should visit www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps where you can explore in more detail all the features available in WPS or request a free evaluation.