I ran into an interesting problem over the last few days with my SAS® 9.3 deployments on Linux. I had noticed that the sas.servers scripts for my Lev2 and Lev3 deployments were taking several minutes to start the SAS services. I know JBoss takes a…
Tag: SAS 9.3
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 […]
Metadata Time Travel with SAS 9.3
The way SAS metadata backups are done in SAS® 9.3 has changed significantly. Significantly for the better I think. There are big changes but they are well well worth it. I’ll warn you now that this is a very long blog post with lots of image…
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 […]
Tip on creating graphic files in specific locations
When trying to write out graphics to a specific filename location, the gsfname option is only honored when ODS LISTING is turned on and ODS HTML is turned off. This is especially important in 9.3 Base SAS as the ODS HTML option is the default output de…
SAS Management Console 9.3 Configuration Manager: Where did everything go?
When I first saw the Configuration Manager plug-in in SAS Management Console 9.3 I wondered where everything had gone! As you can see in the image below the list only contained four items! I was expecting to see a nice long list of items like there is in this screenshot from SAS 9.2 … Surely […]
XCMD and SAS 9.3: working together again
It’s been a well-known limitation for a long time. When you connect to a SAS session using SAS Enterprise Guide, shell commands (including X command, SYSTASK, and FILENAME PIPE) are off-limits because the default SAS invocation disables them. It does this by including -NOXCMD as a command-line option. This makes […]
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 […]