World Programming System

World Programming System (WPS)

WPS Workbench running on Windows 10
Developer(s)	World Programming
Stable release	3.2.2 / April, 2016
Operating system	Windows, Mac OS X, z/OS, Linux on z Systems, Linux, AIX, Solaris
Type	Statistics
License	Proprietary
Website	www.worldprogramming.com

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

WPS is available to run on Mainframe z/OS, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and Linux on Mainframe System z.^[4]

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.^[5]

WPS on all other supported platforms (with the exception of the Mainframe z/OS platform) 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 (software).^[6]

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.^[7]

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.^[8]

Summary of main features

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• Runs on Windows, Mac OS X, z/OS on Mainframe System z, Linux on Mainframe System z, Linux, AIX, Solaris^[9]
• An integrated development environment based on Eclipse (software) for all supported platforms except Mainframe z/OS.^[10]
• Support for language of SAS elements.^[11]
• Support for the language of SAS Macros.^[12]
• Multi-threading support.^[13]
• 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.^[14]
• Support for statistical procedures ANOVA, BOXPLOT, CANDISC, CLUSTER, CORR, CORRESP, DISCRIM, DISTANCE, FACTOR, FASTCLUS, FREQ, GLM, GLMMOD, KDE, LOGISTIC, MEANS, NESTED, NLIN, NPAR1WAY, PRINCOMP, REG, SCORE, STANDARD, SIMNORMAL, STDSIZE, STEPDISC, SUMMARY, SURVEYSELECT, TREE, TTEST, UNIVARIATE, VARCLUS^[15]
• Support for time series procedures ARIMA, EXPAND, FORECAST, X12^[16]
• Support for ODS.^[17]
• Reads and writes SAS datasets (compressed or uncompressed).^[18]
• No restriction on the number of data records that can be processed.^[19]
• 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.^[20]
• Support for SAS Tape Format.^[21]
• Direct output of reports to CSV and HTML.^[22]
• 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.^[23]
• Support for Hadoop ^[24]
• Support for R (programming language) ^[25]

Industry Recognition

Gartner, Inc. recognised World Programming in their Cool Vendors in Data Science, 2014 Report.^[26]

See also

• World Programming - The company who developed WPS
• SAS Programming Language

References

1. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/overview". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
2. Aoife White (2012-05-02). "Copyright Can't Block Software Reverse Engineering: Court". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
3. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/your-apps/language-support". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
4. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/platforms". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
5. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/cli". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
6. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/workbench". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
7. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/link". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
8. [2010]EWHC 1829 (Ch) (23 July 2010). "SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
9. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/platforms". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
10. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/workbench". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
11. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/your-apps/language-support". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
12. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/core". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
13. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/overview". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
14. World Programming Ltd (11 January 2016). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/graphing". Retrieved 11 January 2016.
15. World Programming Ltd (11 January 2016). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/statistics". Retrieved 11 January 2016.
16. World Programming Ltd (4 April 2014). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/time_series". Retrieved 4 April 2014.
17. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/core". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
18. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/core". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
19. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/your-apps/data-support". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
20. World Programming Ltd (11 January 2016). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/your-apps/data-support". Retrieved 11 January 2016.
21. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/core". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
22. World Programming Ltd (2 February 2012). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/core". Retrieved 3 February 2012.
23. World Programming Ltd (4 April 2014). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/interface/communicate". Retrieved 4 April 2014.
24. World Programming Ltd (11 January 2016). "www.worldprogramming.com/products/wps/modules/language/interop_for_hadoop". Retrieved 11 January 2016.
25. "WPS Interop For R | World Programming". www.worldprogramming.com. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
26. "Cool Vendors in Data Science". Gartner. April 23, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2014.

External links

• World Programming web site

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