The ODS Graphics Designer allows you to design and build your own statistical graphs in SAS, without having to learn how to program in the new graph template language (GTL). The ODS Graphics Designer is a rich user interface that allows you to des…
Tag: SAS 9.2
Dual user accounts – making sure mr cockup doesn’t come to visit (credit to blackadder)
We always recommend to customers that they create two user ids for the SAS Administrators. One that is granted standard user rights(or developer user rights) and one that is granted administrator rights. (remember nobody should use sasadm should they!) The reason is that it stops the administrator users from accidentally doing something they didn’t mean to when […]
Enterprise Guide Addin’s Development Documentation
Chris posted earlier this month about the documentation that is available on the SAS Support site (http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/guide/customtasks/) which outlines how to create addin’s for Enterprise Guide. We showcased our first Enterprise Guide addin at the SUNZ conference last week, it allows users to kill their own SAS exe’s that have gone rogue on the SAS Server. Ill post […]
Calling Chris – How many ways does EG retrieve data?
Well if anybody else can answer this then give Chris a race for his money Based on my previous post it got me thinking about hoe EG retrieved the data. It looked to me like EG retrieved the preview data into the EG project for the table selected, but failed to run the SAS query on the workspace server. […]
SAS 9.2 Clients can’t talk to SAS 9.2 Workspace Server – Wrong version
SAS are doing a Grid install on Linux at a customer site, interesting process to watch I must say. One of issues they struck was when they tried to get Enterprise Guide 4.3 to run some code on the 9.2 Workspace server (pre Grid component install). EG could see the metadata and data, it could […]
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. […]
SAS 9.2 Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool – Making hotfixes easy peazy!
We have SAS in at a client site doing a SAS 9.2 Grid install at the moment. While having a chat they mentioned that there is a new hotfix management tool available for SAS 9.2, and sure enough there is details on the SAS Support site here (thanks Ron!) What the support says about it […]