Category: SAS

Reviewing SSL/TLS Certificate Chain for Active Directory Server

Sometimes when I am setting up, or helping someone setup, identity synchronisation between the SAS® platform and Microsoft Active Directory (AD), I run into SSL/TLS certificate validation issues. I am usually using Metacoda Identity Sync, but it c…

Compress – Keep Writable

varname = compress(varname, , ‘kw’);The modifier “k” stands for ‘KEEP’ and the modifier “w” stands for ‘WRITABLE’. When compress function is used in combination of K & W modifiers, it keeps all the writable characters which means it deletes all the…

New related resource initiative in the SAS Help Center

Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple. – Dr. Seuss It seems appropriate that this blog include a Dr. Seuss quote about learning when discussing a new simple, yet deceivingly powerful initiative to help SAS customers with their journey to discover as much as possible about our […]

New related resource initiative in the SAS Help Center was published on SAS Users.

Deploying the Full SAS Viya Stack in Kubernetes

This article is a follow-on to a recent post from Jeff Owens, Getting started with SAS Containers. In that post, Jeff discussed building and running a single container for a SAS Viya runtime/IDE. Today we will go through how to build and run the full SAS Viya stack – visual […]

Deploying the Full SAS Viya Stack in Kubernetes was published on SAS Users.

Interview with new SAS Press authors: Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins

Want to learn SAS programming but worried about taking the plunge? Over at SAS Press, we are excited about an upcoming publication that introduces newbies to SAS in a peer-review instruction format we have found popular for the classroom. Professors Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins have written Fundamentals of Programming […]

Interview with new SAS Press authors: Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins was published on SAS Users.

SAS or Python? Why not use both? Using Python functions inside SAS programs

Two sayings I’ve heard countless times throughout my life are “Work smarter, not harder,” and “Use the best tool for the job.” If you need to drive a nail, you pick up a hammer, not a wrench or a screwdriver. In the programming world, this could mean using an existing […]

SAS or Python? Why not use both? Using Python functions inside SAS programs was published on SAS Users.