SAS Technology Practice team member Anand Chitale has been analyzing how traditional SAS users typically work in the programming world.
He recently took the time to produce a demo that describes why experienced SAS programmers who may have shied…
Top 10 head scratchers for DATA step programmers
When I encounter an ERROR, WARNING, or NOTE in my SAS log that I don’t understand, my first recourse is to ask my friend (we’ll call him “Google”) what it could mean. I copy the entire message (or at least 5 or 6 consecutive words from it) into t…
SAS Altlog option
If you run a production SAS environment or even a development environment for that matter, it is nice to have a specific location for all logs to be written and managed. ALTLOG helps achieve this. The ALTLOG option can be set numerous ways, but we typically utilize 2. 1. As an option on the command […]
SAS, Oracle Weblogic, VMWare – Do not want to play nicely!
We have been looking to upgrade a client to SAS 9.2 and at the same time move to the clients corporate IT standard of virtualising the environments. The client has standardised on vSphere and I thought great SAS 9.2 supports vSphere (as much as the following SAS support page say’s SAS supports virtualisation) SAS® Product Support for […]
Stored Processes – bypassing double authentication
As I mentioned yesterday, some users create portal applications to bypass a second authentication step from the Portal to a Stored Process (via a URL Display Portlet). New in SAS 9.2, there is a STPRun directive that allows you to just complete one sin…
Stored Processes – bypassing double authentication
As I mentioned yesterday, some users create portal applications to bypass a second authentication step from the Portal to a Stored Process (via a URL Display Portlet). New in SAS 9.2, there is a STPRun directive that allows you to just complete one sin…