SAS Web Application Infrastructure automatically logs users out of the system after a predesignated amount of time. Unless the user has the URL bookmarked, they have to retype the Web Application URL. There is a much less frustrating way for users to g…
NOTE: Are Your PCs Flash Enough for BI Dashboard 4.3?
Mid-November saw the release of version 4.3 of the SAS BI clients. BI Dashboard 4.3 has been adapted to use Flash technology – that means you can now use Flash interactivity to gain insight. There’s a very informative SAS Global Forum paper on t…
Error Codes for libname
Whenever we assign a libname (especially a libname to a database), we would want to be sure that the library path should be valid/existing. When it comes to assigning a libname to a database, example oracle, we may also want to confirm if the user-id a…
NOTE: Latest SAS-Related Periodicals (plus IN in macro)
The last few weeks have seen a couple of SAS-related periodicals published:
Issue 51 of VIEWS News is available. As ever, the archive of back-issues is a valuable resource
System Seminar Consultants released the autumn 2010 issue of The Missing Semicol…
NOTE: What Would You Add or Change? SASware Ballot is Open
The annual SASware ballot is now open for business. The ballot is SAS’s annual survey of customers to see what new features and enhanced features they would like. The results are traditionally presented at SAS Global Forum. Democracy in action!
.netrc in UNIX
I came across this interesting feature when i was trying to FTP a file from a FTP server to my Unix box. I used this convetional method to FTP a file earlier:ftp -n $SERVERquote user $LOGINquote pass $PASSWORDcd ..ls BKP files.txt The problem with this…