Tag: SAS 9.3

SAS and IWA: Two Hops

In an earlier post I mentioned that I would jot down a few notes about my experiences with SAS® software and Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). This is the first of these posts and concerns the initial configuration. Chances are, if you knew…

SAS Management Console 9.3 Password Indication

You’ve probably encountered this issue too. As an administrator you just want to know whether someone has stored a password in metadata or not. You don’t want to know the actual password, just whether there’s one there or not, because…

Dynamic Logging Reconfiguration in SAS® 9.3

One of the exciting new features in SAS 9.3 (well for me anyway) is the ability to replace or modify the logging configuration on-the-fly for a running server without needing to restart it. Previously in SAS 9.2 you could dynamically change the levels …

SAS and IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) Notes

Over the past year I have worked on a number of SAS® 9.2 platform installations helping to get Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) working nicely for single sign-on (SSO) for the SAS platform. Whilst it’s relatively easy to turn IWA on, …

Want to know what replaced Xythos in SAS 9.2/9.3 – enter the jackrabbit

In SAS 9.1.x the WebDav technology SAS used was powered by an open source component called Xythos. Xthyos provided the mechanism by which the SAS Web tools (WRS, Portal etc) could read and write to a database repository (Postgres, Oracle, Sql Server etc) to store the content (WRS (XML) reports). In SAS 9.2 / 9.3, SAS re-engineered […]