This is a tip for Metacoda Security Plug-ins users who might have a need to track down which user or group identity in their SAS® metadata owns a particular user id. Have you ever gone to add a login to a user or group identity in the SAS Manageme…
Tag: SAS 9.1
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 […]
Desktop Files for Launching SAS Apps on Ubuntu
Whilst I often use the command line on Linux, it’s also nice to have icons in the menus to start SAS® applications like SAS Management Console and SAS Display Manager. These days I mostly use GNOME Do as an application launcher (its a bit like Quicksilver for Mac OS X). Naturally I like to be […]
Authorization Manager Plug-in and Custom Metadata Permissions
Something I’ve only noticed recently, which I haven’t seen in the SAS® 9.2 What’s New documentation, is an apparent change relating to support for custom, or user-defined, metadata permissions in the SAS Management Console Authorization Manager plug-in. I hadn’t noticed this change before because I’ve not yet had a need for custom metadata permissions myself. […]
Self-Service Account/Login Management with the SAS Personal Login Manager
Recently I was talking to someone about how users can manage their own logins in metadata using the SAS Personal Login Manager client application. I wanted to show them what it looks like but, to my surprise, I couldn’t find any screenshots of it on the SAS support site, and I didn’t have an installation […]
Finally got my feet wet by jumping in a puddle
Finally got a chance to setup workspace pooling in SAS 9.1 and WRS 3.1. Followed the instructions I outlined in this post http://blog.saasinct.com/2010/09/28/speeding-up-web-report-studio-9-13-1-by-jumping-in-puddles/ Was simple enough to setup and get working, only trick was to remember to stop and restart the webserver so WRS/WRV could pick up the changes and switch over from load balanced to pooled. […]
SAS 9.1, Windows 2003, I/O and 32 bit limitations
Over the lastest year or two we have had ongoing issues running SAS 9.1 on 32 bit windows. Main two issues that constantly arise are: Metadata server exceeding addressable memory in 32 bit windows and crashing I/O errors intermittently reading/writing SAS datasets We have tried all the SAS “support” tools to reduce the size of our metadata […]