Angela offers tips on using the SAS Business Intelligence solutions. She manages a team of SAS Fraud Framework implementers within the SAS Solutions On-Demand organization. Angela also has co-written two books, 'Building BI using SAS, Content Development Examples' & 'The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes'.
Special Character problems in passwords continue to cause issues, and many organizations require the use of at least 1 to pass security requirements. Specific ones to stay away from ... @ ... Just today this caused problems in remote connections to Meta Engine Libname. & ... This can affect users
If your SMC or other metadata-based SAS tools seem to take a long time to load up when connecting to the metadata server you may benefit from running a reorg. The %OMABAKUP macro includes a reorg parameter which reduces the amount of fragmentation in how the datasets making up SAS
So you have installed the SAS System, and you can check what is licensed with the proc setinit command, but what if something hiccuped in the install. Or your supporting (I mean validating) someone else's install and you need to quickly see what is available? Included below is some 'found'
