Tag: SAS

WUSS 2017: The Papers

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 […]

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”

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”