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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
NOXCMD: NO eXternal CoMmanDs!
SAS® platform administrators can get quite familiar with the SAS NOXCMD option, usually when someone asks why their programs that used to work (in a different SAS version or execution environment) are now failing. Perhaps the programs ran ok with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 using a SAS 9.1.3 server but now fail with SAS Enterprise […]