Saw this interesting SAS Support note “Problem Note 36697: Group member cannot see shared group content in SAS® Information Delivery Portal“ referenced in a discussion on the SAS Support Discussion forums. It seems a change has been made to make the SAS Portal pages load faster in SAS 9.2 (good!) But the trick for your players is that […]
Tag: SAS 9.2
SAS Enterprise Miner, Delivers the goods but needs makeup (or makeover)
I was reading this interesting blog here from Jiangtang Hu, where he compares SAS Enterprise Miner with IBM’s Intelligent Miner and SPSS Clementine (interesting he didn’t compare Oracle’s Data Mining offering) His outcome was SAS EM wins on most areas except the User Interface. I must say that after doing an upgrade for a client […]
Uninstalling SAS 9.2 on Windows – Be Gone Damn Spot!
If you have the pleasure of installing SAS on a Windows server and then trying to uninstall and reinstall it multiple times, you will know that the uninstall process is time consuming and painful. You have to go through the standard windows add/remove programs process for each SAS component/product, or restore a clean copy of […]
Updated SAS Admin Docs (inc Portal Promotion)
I noticed that several of the SAS® platform administration documents have been updated recently following the release of the 4.3 versions of SAS Enterprise Guide and the various mid-tier web apps (SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS BI Dashboard etc.). The updated documents include: SAS® 9.2 Intelligence Platform System Administration Guide, Second […]
New DI Admin Course from SAS
Back in September I wrote about seeing some New Targeted Admin Courses from SAS. Today I saw that the list of admin courses has been further extended to add a new SAS Data Integration Studio: Administration course. There’s more information about this new training course, including the course outline, on the SAS web site at […]
SAS Metadata Backup on Windows 2008 R2
I was trying to run a manual SAS Metadata Server backup (OMABAKUP) on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit today. It failed! I run metadata backups many many times so I was sure all the normal prerequisites were in place but this was the first time I had run one on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit […]
Migrating from SAS BI Dashboards 4.2 to 4.3
There is a SAS note that will be very helpfull in understandong the differences between SAS BI Dashboards 4.2 and 4.3.
It also has links to other usage notes outlining some issues you might encounter.
Check out: Usage Note 40474: SAS® BI Dashboard 4…
Web OLAP Viewer is dead (RIP)
I remember when SAS 9.1 was released and the new SAS Web OLAP viewer for Java (SWOVJ) was released. It was a great new interface to replace the old MRV. It went through a few iterations, but not a lot changed (although I was always confused about which version could only open Cubes and whihc could open […]