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 9.2
Adding custom content to SASPortal in SAS 9.2 & 9.3
Web Application Custom Content If you wish to add custom content into SAS web applications, you may do so by placing your custom content into the appropriate custom content directory structure for the given application, and then running the SAS Deployment Manager to rebuild web applications. The custom content root directory for a given […]
Adding Login back to the SAS 9.2 Portal
If you need to display the login link on the portal after a user has logged out, Angela has posted how to do it here: Save User Frustration by adding the magic ‘Log (back) In’ button
JMP is bundled with SAS Enterprise Miner in both 9.2 & 9.3
I blogged a while ago about some changes to the SAS licensing with SAS adding a few more capabilities at no extra charge (didn’t even need to buy the steak knives One of the things I mentioned was that JMP is now bundled as part of SAS Enterprise Miner (to match your EM client license). But I […]
SAS Deployment Manager 9.3
I noticed the user interface for the SAS® Deployment Manager 9.3 has changed slightly. Here is a screenshot from my “old” SAS 9.2 M3 installation: … and here’s the screenshot from my new SAS 9.3 installation: I’m guessing that the new hierarchical folder structure is going to allow for more tools to added. Interestingly there’s […]
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 […]
Updated SAS Enterprise Guide Admin Paper
One of the papers I regularly recommended to administrators of SAS® Enterprise Guide was TS-788 What SAS® Administrators Should Know about Libraries, Metadata, and SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.1 (PDF), especially for its discussion of the AssignMode extended attribute. Thanks to a recent post by Chris Hemedinger on The SAS Dummy blog, I’ve discovered that there’s […]