Chris Hemedinger recently highlighted a raft of new information about Enterprise Guide Custom Add-In Tasks on the SAS support web site. The page provides some example add-in tasks, documentation, and compatibility information for various release of Ent…
Handy SAS Usage Note for Troubleshooting UNIX Authentication
Whilst troubleshooting why LDAP based users couldn’t authenticate against a SAS Metadata Server configured for host authentication, I found this handy resource: SAS Usage Note 39891: Using PROC PERMTEST to diagnose UNIX host authentication issues in SAS® 9.2. The server in question already had correctly functioning LDAP host authentication via PAM, it was just that […]
Spreading the WORK load
I found a handy tip from Rafi in the discussion Allocating SAS WORK Libraries Dynamically in SAS 9.2 in the LinkedIn group SAS Architects/Administrators/Implementation Specialist. It explains how to use a variation on the SAS system option WORK= to spread work libraries over a number of I/O paths using either random or available space methods. […]
Like Ripples In A Pond
… OK, it’s a bit of a cheesy title, but I think it accurately captures how my friends and colleagues in the SAS user world have been escalating their desire to understand and engage in the world of social media. I’ve been fighting the good fight in …
Macro embedded function finds AUC
As a routine practice to reuse codes, SAS programmers tend to contain procedures in a SAS macro and pass arguments to them as macro variables. The result could be anything by data set and SAS procedure: figure, dataset, SAS list, etc. Thus, macro in SA…
RegexBuddy and Automated Emails
So, I am going to help out with a computer club at my kids middle school. Since a topic was needed to start it all off, I said ‘hey! regular expressions are used everywhere, why not start there. Plus, it is very useful.’.So, I sent JGSoft (the owner of…