Sometimes you find yourself wanting to repeat a SAS® software installation or deployment with the same, or slightly different, options. Perhaps you want to start an installation again after realizing that you chose a wrong option the first time ar…
Tag: SAS 9.3
Finding SAS Depot Release Numbers
Checking the detailed release number(s) for SAS® software in a depot is one of those things I do rarely enough that I have to look it up each time I need to do it. I know it’s in the depot somewhere, but I keep forgetting exactly where. This…
Hotfixing a SAS Depot
I’ve been doing a few SAS® platform installations lately and I noticed in the documentation some neat enhancements in SAS 9.3 M2: The SAS Download Manager, in addition to downloading a SAS software depot for your order, also downloads specia…
Favourite Papers from SAS Global Forum 2013
I’m back in Australia now after attending SAS Global Forum 2013 in San Francisco last week. As always it was a fantastic conference where I got to meet lots of other enthusiastic SAS users, see some great papers about SAS software (though I never…
Promoting SAS Security Metadata (in Custom Repositories)
Did you know that with SAS® 9.3 you can promote (export/import) SAS metadata packages containing users, groups, roles, and ACTs, just like you can with Jobs, Tables, Libraries, Stored Processes, Reports and Information Maps? I needed to do this myself…
Protecting your Metadata Protections: Part 2
In a guest post on blogs.sas.com in January, I wrote about protecting your metadata protections. In that post I said that “Ideally, a SAS® metadata security plan should address both ACT permissions and access to the Authorization Manager.”…
Reading ‘Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide Using Microsoft .NET’
Chris Hemedinger’s new book Custom Tasks for SAS® Enterprise Guide® Using Microsoft .NET was recently released. If you have an idea for a really useful additional task you’d like to build for SAS Enterprise Guide, I strongly encou…
SAS Stored Process Code in Metadata
With SAS® 9.3 the SAS code for a Stored Process can be located in metadata rather than located the file system (as was required with earlier versions). I had often wondered whether this meant the SAS code was really in metadata or whether it appea…