Tag: windows

SAS Management Console on HiDPI Windows 10 Revisited

It has been a few years since I posted SAS Management Console on HiDPI Windows 10, and the Windows 10 HiDPI options have changed a little since then, so I wanted to post an update. Compared to the simple Override high DPI combo box from 2017, there is …

SAS Management Console on HiDPI Windows 10

A few days ago I installed SAS Management Console 9.4 M4 and Metacoda Plug-ins 6.0 R4 on a Microsoft Surface Pro running Windows 10. After launching SAS Management Console, and logging in, it looked very odd. All of the icons and text were very close together and the text was hard to read. Here’s a … Continue reading “SAS Management Console on HiDPI Windows 10”

SAS 9.4 crash with MySQL ODBC pass-through queries

SAS 9.4 (TS1M2) on X64_DS08R2 (Windows Server 2008 64-bit) always crashes with certain pass-through queries using MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.4. When it crashes, the SAS log shows some red messages, but SAS closes immediately. The crash is not reproduc…

IWA with SAS 9.4 M2 on Linux

I’ve just finished a challenging but very rewarding experience configuring a SAS 9.4 M2 platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), for both server and mid-tiers ….. without using Quest Authentication Services. The SAS platform has supported IWA on Linux since SAS 9.3 but until recently has only supported it when you “purchase, […]

SAS & IWA: Check the Logs

When testing Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) based client connections to SAS® platform servers, it is well worth checking the SAS logs to verify the connections are being made the way you expect. SAS has a variety of methods up it’s …

Query the Windows registry within your SAS program

On the SAS-L mailing list, a participant posed this question (paraphrased): How can I tell which date format my Windows session is using: European format (with day first) versus USA format (with month first)? I’m reading in output from a Windows file listing, and need to know how to interpret […]