I feel privileged to have been invited back to meet with SAS customers throughout New Zealand and Australia. I also feel lucky to escape the North Carolina summer (with temperatures trending in the 90s Fahrenheit) in exchange for the “winter” wea…
SAS Insight Series in Australia and New Zealand (August 2011)
I feel privileged to have been invited back to meet with SAS customers throughout New Zealand and Australia. I also feel lucky to escape the North Carolina summer (with temperatures trending in the 90s Fahrenheit) in exchange for the “winter” weather D…
SAS Bloggers In Action(1): Rick Wicklin, SAS/IML and “Color Revolution”
It is well known that the French writer, author of The Three Musketeer, Alexandre Dumas, wrote his master piece of work in different colored papers according to literary genre:
non-fiction on rose,
fiction on blue,
poetry on yellow
The SAS blog writer, author of Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software, Rick Wicklin of SAS Institute, also leads a strong “color […]
WriteMemberMetadata Permission
The WriteMemberMetadata (WMM) permission was a welcome addition back when SAS 9.2 was released, because it allowed an administrator to distinguish between a users ability to manage a metadata folder from their ability to manage its contents. In SAS 9.1.3 there was only the WriteMetadata (WM) permission and, if you had the ability to manage […]
SAS Restricted Options on UNIX
In a tweet by Gordon Cox last month, I was reminded of the restricted options facility available with SAS® software on UNIX platforms. This is capability where an administrator can set mandatory SAS system options at multiple levels of granularity: globally, per-group, and/or per-user. The reason for this post is that I don’t look at […]
Where is the Stored Process Alert Portlet (4.3)?
When looking to add the Stored Process Alert Process (useful to see whether processes run in the BACKGROUND were completed successfully) the specific portlet type is not on the list.
No worries, it’s actually a personal portlet that is defined to…