Whilst troubleshooting why LDAP based users couldn’t authenticate against a SAS Metadata Server configured for host authentication, I found this handy resource: SAS Usage Note 39891: Using PROC PERMTEST to diagnose UNIX host authentication issues in SAS® 9.2. The server in question already had correctly functioning LDAP host authentication via PAM, it was just that […]
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Spreading the WORK load
I found a handy tip from Rafi in the discussion Allocating SAS WORK Libraries Dynamically in SAS 9.2 in the LinkedIn group SAS Architects/Administrators/Implementation Specialist. It explains how to use a variation on the SAS system option WORK= to spread work libraries over a number of I/O paths using either random or available space methods. […]
Susan’s Macro Mottos
With SAS Global Forum less than two months away, I am busy putting the finishing touches on my papers. One of those papers is SAS Macro Programming for Beginners. Of all the conference papers I have written over the years, this is probably my favorite. Yet oddly, I have only presented this paper once at […]
Interesting SAS notes relating to Portal Promotion
I noticed a couple of recent SAS usage notes relating to the new portal content promotion capability in SAS 9.2: SAS Problem Note 42231: The script used to promote SAS® Information Delivery Portal content removes the Portal Application Tree when an incorrect name is passed to the script SAS Usage Note 41692: Scripts for promoting […]
WPS – What the …….
Got an unsolicited email from Serus Software Zolutions who are it seems a WPS reseller in Australia. As you maybe aware WPS provide a set of software that is positioned as being able to natively run SAS code, for a fraction of the license/renewal fees SAS charge. As you can imagine SAS haven’t been happy about […]
Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2011 and SAS
I see Gartner have released the 2011 magic quadrant for 2011 on 27 Jan 2011. The opening paragraph states: “In 2010, business users had greater influence over BI buying, often choosing data discovery vendors as an alternative to traditional BI tools. But megavendors continued to hold the majority of BI market share, despite ongoing customer dissatisfaction, by selling […]
SAS 9.2 OLAP Cube Identity Driven Member Level Security
Identity-driven member level security for SAS 9.2 OLAP cubes, as the name suggests, uses the identity of the requesting user to restrict access to specific members of a dimension, and in so doing control the subset of cube data that the user has access to. Imagine that you have an OLAP cube containing sales data […]
Using SAS92HFADD & ViewRegistry on Windows Server 2008 R2
In my earlier post on Reviewing Installed SAS 9.2 Software and Hotfixes I mentioned that I ran into a few User Access Control issues on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 when using the SAS ViewRegistry Report utility and the SAS 9.2 Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool (SAS92HFADD). To get the SAS ViewRegistry Report […]