Tomorrow morning (Saturday) I’ll be leaving on a jet plane and heading to Orlando for SAS Global Forum 2012.
There’s plenty to look forward to but some of the key interests for me include:
1) A new version of the Metacoda Security Plug-in. I look …
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NOTE: Registration for SAS Professionals Convention Now Open
Before we’ve even got SAS Global Forum under our belts, registration for SAS Professionals Convention in Marlow, July 10th to 12th 2012, is open!
At £125 for three days of SAS activities, it’s got to be the best value SAS offer you’ll see in the UK…
Sneak Peek at our new Effective Permissions Explorers
This post is a sneak peek at a couple of effective permissions explorers that we are putting into the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins. We’ll also be demoing these at the SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando next week, so if you’r…
SAS & IWA: Reviewing SPNs
My last post was about configuring additional Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory to support the use of Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) in a SAS® platform installation that uses host name aliases in preference to physical ho…
SAS & IWA: Host Name Aliases and SPNs
I’m quite keen on using host name aliases, rather than their physical host names, when referring to machines in SAS® platform installations. It does however mean a little extra configuration is required when using Integrated Windows Authenti…
Digital Life and Personal Data Analysis
This picture (by newsobserver.com) took from Wake County Library Book Fair in North Carolina Fairground where I also went to pick up some books. I was and still is a big book (almost paper books) fan. But when I was standing among the 450,000 used books in the book fair, I felt depressed and reluctantly […]
SAS Management Console over SSH
I was asked recently how to get SAS® Management Console to remotely access a SAS metadata server using SSH tunnels. In the absence of a VPN connection to your network, SSH can be an alternative for SAS Management Console access to a remote SAS met…
Stamping the SAS Log with all Macro Variable Values
The topic of the day around the office was stamping all of the user created macro variables into the log function. I’ve got a few programs that have a lot (20+) auto-generated dates, etc and the following is just one of the the many ways to print what each macro resolves to into your log […]