Tag: SAS 9.4

Using SAS DS2 to parse JSON

Thanks to the proliferation of cloud services and REST-based APIs, SAS users have been making use of PROC HTTP calls (to query these web services) and some creative DATA step or PROC GROOVY code to process the JSON results. Such methods get the job done (JSON is simply text, after […]

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Restarting SAS Web Apps with SAS Environment Manager

Have you ever wanted to restart a single SAS® web application without having to wait for the entire stack of SAS Web Application Servers to restart? Well, SAS Environment Manager provides the ability to do this, and I think that’s fantastic. I needed to restart the SAS Logon Manager several times the other day, and […]

Using Lua within your SAS programs

With apologies to this candy advertisement from the 1980s: “Hey, you got your Lua in my SAS program.” “You got your SAS code in my Lua program!” Announcer: “PROC LUA: Two great programming languages that program great together!” What is Lua? It’s an embeddable scripting language that is often used […]

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Active Directory Authentication for SAS on Linux (with realmd)

This is another post in the series about configuring a SAS platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), in this post I’m going to jot down some notes on steps 1-7 – configuring the Linux server for Active Directory (AD) Authentication. Some time has passed since I wrote the original post, and a […]

SAS Download Manager in Console Mode

SAS® 9.4 M3 is now available (as discussed by Andy Ratcliffe in his recent NOTE: blog post), so I’m downloading a new SAS depot using the SAS Download Manager. I’m downloading it onto a Linux server that happens to have X11 available, but I’m choosing to use console (text) mode, rather than the default X11 […]

Using LIBNAME XLSX to read and write Excel files

When you weren’t watching, SAS did it again. We smuggled Yet Another Excel Engine into a SAS release. SAS 9.2 Maintenance 2 added the XLSX engine, which allows you to read and write Microsoft Excel files as if they were data sets in a library. The big advantage of using […]

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