As I said in yesterday’s My 2013 Top Ten article, I think that metadata-bound libraries (introduced in V9.3 maintenance 2) are one of the most significant SAS enhancements for some time. It seems SAS’s Chris Hemedinger agrees. Read his Closing the “LIB…
Tag: Admin
NOTE: Release Management and Version Control
Yesterday I mentioned SAS platform administrators and how their work and their value can be overlooked. My post related to an article on the SAS Users Groups blog. Last week I saw another SAS Users Groups blog entry about something else that is often o…
NOTE: SAS Platform Administration – Information Sources
SAS platform administrators are the unsung heroes of many SAS sites. Most SAS users have no conception of the range and complexity of technology that sits below the user-facing SAS interfaces like Enterprise Guide, Web Report Studio and Visual Analyt…
NOTE: The Dawn of 9.4 Approaches
There were many papers at SAS Global Forum 2013 on the upcoming 9.4 version of SAS. You can find many of them here. I recently saw a blog post from Robby Powell with a good summary of what to expect from 9.4. It’s worth a look to see what will be avail…
NOTE: Adding Value to Your Metadata with Metacoda Commutual
I’m always glad to meet-up with the folks from Metacoda when I attend SAS Global Forum. They always have something new and valuable to show. Historically it’s always been new features for their Metacoda Security Plug-Ins, but this year they were keen…
NOTE: High-Availability Metadata #sasgf13
One of the most notable features of v9.4 wasn’t mentioned in the SAS Global Forum Technology Connection but I caught a paper by Bryan Wolfe on the subject. SAS v9.4 will remove SAS’s most notable “single point of failure” – the metadata ser…
NOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries in Action
Following my recent post about the excellent new metadata-bound libraries in V9.3 M2, I noticed Paul Homes publish a blog article with the results of his testing of this new capability. Paul shows some code samples and associated log output. Take a loo…
NOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries
Since the introduction of metadata-defined LIBNAMEs in the earliest days of version 9, it’s been a frustration that the security that can be applied within SAS metadata to control who can access libraries can be completely undermined by users simply …