The Western Users of SAS Software 2017 conference is coming to Long Beach, CA, September 20-22. I have been to a lot of SAS conferences, but WUSS is always my favorite because it is big enough for me to learn a lot, but small enough to be really friendly. If you come I hope you […]
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Choose Your SAS Interface
A while back, I wrote about the proliferation of interfaces for writing SAS programs. I am reposting that blog here (with a few changes) because a lot of SAS users still don’t understand that they have a choice. These days SAS programmers have more choices than ever before about how to run SAS. They can […]
Java Look & Feel with SAS Management Console on Linux
As someone who specialises in SAS® metadata security, I spend a lot of time using the Authorization tab in SAS Management Console. I also use Linux a great deal. When I run SAS Management Console on Linux, I’ve noticed that the check box background colours on the Authorization tab don’t render correctly (for me at … Continue reading “Java Look & Feel with SAS Management Console on Linux”
Data Science Tool Market Share Leading Indicator: Scholarly Articles
Below is the latest update to The Popularity of Data Science Software. It contains an analysis of the tools used in the most recent complete year of scholarly articles. The section is also integrated into the main paper itself. New … Continue reading →
Following SAS GEL Security Rules with Metacoda Security Tests
If you’re responsible for managing SAS® platform security, and you haven’t seen them yet, then I’d definitely recommend reading Five papers on Recommended SAS 9.4 Security Model Design (part 1 & part 2) as published by David Stern, Principal Technical Architect from the SAS Global Enablement and Learning (GEL) team. These papers are an excellent … Continue reading “Following SAS GEL Security Rules with Metacoda Security Tests”
Dueling Data Science Surveys: KDnuggets & Rexer Go Live
What tools do we use most for data science, machine learning, or analytics? Python, R, SAS, KNIME, RapidMiner,…? How do we use them? We are about to find out as the two most popular surveys on data science tools have … Continue reading →
Auto Creation of Linux Home Directories for SAS Users
In a previous post I’ve described a method for configuring Active Directory Authentication for SAS® on Linux (with realmd). One of the packages that’s installed is oddjob-mkhomedir. This package normally handles any requirement for auto-creating home directories for those AD users on Linux. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to get used by the SAS Object Spawner. … Continue reading “Auto Creation of Linux Home Directories for SAS Users”
Nudging SAS Viya Services Timeout
I had been puzzling over why some SAS® Viya™ services were not starting on a machine reboot. Initially I thought the answer appeared in the SAS Viya 3.2 Administration documentation set: see the General Servers and Services: Troubleshooting section. I found that all the expected services started after: [root@hostname ~]# /etc/init.d/sas-viya-all-services stop [root@hostname ~]# rm … Continue reading “Nudging SAS Viya Services Timeout”