Here are some of my tips for using the Platform Suite for SAS when you have Development, Test and Production environments to support your SDLC.Install and configure one instance of Platform LSF and Platform Process ManagerIf you have separate machines …
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SAS Altlog option
If you run a production SAS environment or even a development environment for that matter, it is nice to have a specific location for all logs to be written and managed. ALTLOG helps achieve this. The ALTLOG option can be set numerous ways, but we typically utilize 2. 1. As an option on the command […]
SAS, Oracle Weblogic, VMWare – Do not want to play nicely!
We have been looking to upgrade a client to SAS 9.2 and at the same time move to the clients corporate IT standard of virtualising the environments. The client has standardised on vSphere and I thought great SAS 9.2 supports vSphere (as much as the following SAS support page say’s SAS supports virtualisation) SAS® Product Support for […]
300 Subscribers. Thank you!
Google Feedburner tells me that the NOTE: blog had 300 subscribers yesterday. This feels like a significant milestone to me. Thank you for your continued interest in my musings and observations.
At the risk of skewing the figures and compounding the a…
C# Dictionary of US State Abbreivation to Names using SAS
I need C# code to convert United States state postal abbreviations (like AL) to full state names (like Alabama), but I’m afraid of making a typo retyping the abbreviation list from the USPS—and that just seems tedious. However, it’s e…
Progress reading SAS sas7bdat files (natively) in R
This post describes some preliminary results from a compatibility study of the SAS sas7bdat file format. The most current results stored in a github repository here: sas7bdat The ultimate goal is a native solution to the incompatibility between open-source statistical software (e.g. R) and sas7bdat database files. Demonstration There has been significant progress in interpreting […]
NOTE: Undocumented Features – Use Them at Your Peril!
Back in October 2009 I mentioned the undocumented feature in Enterprise Guide whereby data sets whose names begin “_TO” are hidden by EG’s Server List pane. I also cautioned against using undocumented features.
SAS’s Chris Hemedinger recently highligh…
NOTE: Are You Ready to be Taught? Test Your SAS Skills
SAS Education in the US have launched a series of online assessments to allow prospective training customers to see if they’re at the right level of knowledge to join a course. Since SAS share course materials across many regions, the value of the…