TSINFO Procedure

PROC TSINFO Compared with the TIMEID Procedure

The TSINFO procedure is the next generation of the TIMEID procedure (a SAS/ETS procedure) for time series information analysis. PROC TSINFO was developed specifically for SAS Viya. The syntax of PROC TSINFO is similar to the syntax of PROC TIMEID, from which it borrows the underlying methodology and goals. PROC TSINFO is designed to run on a cluster of machines that distribute the data and computations to multiple threads, and it requires your data tables to be available on a SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) server.

Table 1 shows the differences between the TSINFO and TIMEID procedures.

Table 1: PROC TSINFO versus PROC TIMEID

Feature TSINFO TIMEID
Threading Multithreaded Single-threaded
Input data CAS tables SAS data sets
Requires sorted input data? No Yes, by BY variables and ID variable bottom-up


Last updated: July 09, 2026