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