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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenSeptember 17, 2015 0

Monitoring Database Usage with SAS Environment Manager

Many administrators are familiar with the well-known “WIP Data Server” component of a SAS installation–so this blog takes a closer look at it, and shows how easy it is to monitor how large the database is growing. This data server contains a SAS-critical database known as the SharedServices Database, which is

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Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasSeptember 16, 2015 0

Accessing VA Reports with Parameterized URLs

The SAS Visual Analytics 7.2 release introduced context sensitive URLs for VA reports which means we can now directly pass parameter values in the URLs! This opens the door and allows for greater flexibility when needing to use a URL to access a VA report. One use would be if

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SAS Events

Nancy MoserSeptember 15, 2015 0

Users Catch the Wave at WUSS 2015

Over 400 enthusiastic SAS users gathered in San Diego September 9-11, 2015 for the 23rd annual WUSS 2015 conference. In this “digital age,” where so much of our communication is virtual and social, it was a treat to get out and meet SAS users face-to-face. The two and a half-days were packed

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SAS Events

Art CarpenterSeptember 14, 2015 0

The Fun and Reward of the SAS Writing Journey

When I wrote my first paper, a poster for SUGI 13, yes it was SUGI back then, not SAS Global Forum, I had no idea what a wonderful journey I was embarking on. At the time, I thought that paper was just a way to get to a conference. That

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SAS Events

Maggie MillerSeptember 10, 2015 0

How to get your SAS on

We’ve all probably done it. It benefits others and yourself. You don’t get paid, but it always makes you feel good. Of course, I’m talking about volunteering. Jennifer Waller’s keynote presentation, “How To Get Your SAS On” was more than just a catchy title. The attendees at WUSS 2015 in

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Maura StokesSeptember 9, 2015 0

If I were a carpenter … thoughts on the recent SAS Statistical Software Release

One question I get asked a lot is: What is the most exciting new statistical feature in the 14.1 release? And they get a bit frustrated when I say: It depends. But it does depend! SAS statistical software provides a broad array of capabilities that help users track disease outbreaks,

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SAS Support Communities

Shelley Sessoms

Shelley SessomsSeptember 9, 2015 0

Revamped SAS Support Communities Offer Enhanced Customer Service

Many years ago, SAS Support Communities began as a way to connect and help SAS users. Since that time, our communities have seen tremendous growth in membership and readership. Our members show a vast diversity of interests – both in terms of the topics that they discuss and in the

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Nancy MoserSeptember 8, 2015 0

Rebooting the Little SAS Book: Catching up with the authors before WUSS 2015

Ask any user how they first learned SAS and there’s a good chance they’ll cite The Little SAS Book as a resource they used to get started. Authors Lora Delwiche, Susan Slaughter, and Rebecca Ottesen have written a new book that promises to be just as helpful to new SAS

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleySeptember 3, 2015 0

Deleting old backups with SAS Backup Manager

As Gerry Nelson pointed out in an earlier post on 9.4M3, a new interface to the SAS Backup and Recovery Tool is available from the Administration application in SAS Environment Manager. This new SAS Backup Manager interface makes scheduling regular backups and executing ad hoc backups extremely easy to do

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerSeptember 2, 2015 0

SAS Visual Analytics 7.3: Check out the sample reports!

New in the 7.3 release, SAS Visual Analytics now provides sample objects. During installation, the SAS Deployment Wizard prompts you to include sample reports by default. In addition to eight reports, an exploration and ten sample datasets are also included in the samples. These sample reports and datasets are available by industry

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SAS Events

Nancy MoserAugust 31, 2015 0

Don’t WUSS Out – Five “Can’t Miss” Happenings at WUSS 2015

With all of the classes and presentations offered at this year’s Western Users of SAS Software conference, planning your activities can easily become overwhelming. Have no fear – we are here to help! Below are five “can’t miss” happenings at WUSS 2015! 1. Jennifer Waller’s Keynote Address - Wednesday, September 9

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Renee HarperAugust 27, 2015 0

Five things a SAS user should know this week

Note: This blog post is cross-posted from the Key Happenings blog. Going forward, posts about changes to support.sas.com will appear here, in the SAS User's blog. Enjoy! Five things a SAS users should know this week... 5 -- SAS 9.4 M3 and 14.1 are available 4 -- Communities will go

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Edoardo RivaAugust 27, 2015 0

What’s new in SAS Grid Manager 9.4M3 architecture

If you have, or are considering, SAS Grid Manager, you’ll be excited to hear about two new changes to the product that make it even better for managing and processing in your analytics environment. The two changes were made in conjunction with the release of SAS 9.4M3 in July, and

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Rob CollumAugust 26, 2015 0

Keeping SAS current with Java 7

As of April 15, 2015, Oracle is no longer providing public updates of the Java 7 runtime environment (JRE) or software development kit (JDK). SAS 9.3 and SAS 9.4, however, continue to rely on Java 7 for support of business production. SAS has therefore contracted with Oracle to continue receiving

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Programming Tips

Jerry LeonardAugust 21, 2015 0

Creating Quantile Groups

SAS users often ask me about the best way to group or bin their data in preparation for additional analysis. Depending on the need, there are several ways to achieve this using SAS procedures or other SAS processing. Creating user-defined formats with PROC FORMAT or using Data step processing are

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenAugust 19, 2015 0

Monitor your SASWORK directory from SAS Environment Manager

Everyone who codes with SAS knows what the SASWORK directory space is, and everyone who has ever managed a medium-large installation knows that you need to monitor this space to avoid a huge buildup of worthless disk usage. One of the most common snarls happens when large SAS jobs go

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Julie EllisonAugust 18, 2015 0

Users Unite! Starting a SAS users group

In recent blog posts, we shared the benefits of participating in a SAS users group, how to register your group, and tips on how to find a group that meets your individual needs. But, what if you’ve discovered that there isn’t a local users group in your community or that

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerAugust 13, 2015 0

Visual Analytics 7.3: A peek at HTML5 interfaces

The new 7.3 release of SAS Visual Analytics not only uses the new HTML5 home page as the entry point to the Visual Analytics environment, but also introduces the new HTML5 viewer. The HTML5 home page interface features a personalized welcome message, tiles for content organization (Recent, Links, Favorites), icons to access

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Programming Tips

Stephen FoersterAugust 11, 2015 0

Loading LASR Remotely with DI Studio (SAS/Connect)

The SASIOLA libname engine is now delivered with most SAS software orders so that we can load LASR environments remotely from separate SAS environments. For example, maybe you have an existing SAS “ETL” machine that you use to access your source environments and load your target environments. With the SASIOLA

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SAS Events

Nancy MoserAugust 6, 2015 0

SAS Everywhere: Fall Regional Conferences

Support for SAS Users is everywhere! Starting in September, Regional SAS Users Groups host their annual conferences. Through presentations and hands-on workshops, fall regional conferences expose users to new ideas, best practices and innovative ways to use SAS. Attendees also have the opportunity to attend classes and network with hundreds

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersJuly 31, 2015 0

SAS 9.4: Transport Layer Security (HTTPS) and SAS

Encryption and SAS is a wide ranging topic – so wide it gets its own book and features strongly in both the SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide, Second Edition and SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide, Third Edition. In this blog we’ll take a high level look at

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonJuly 29, 2015 0

Great new functionality for SAS Administrators in 9.4 M3

SAS 9.4 M3 released in July 2015 with some interesting new features and functionality for platform SAS administrators. In this blog I will review at a very high level the major new features. For details you can see the SAS 9.4 System Administration guide. SAS 9.4 M3 includes a new release

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SAS Events

Kristen HaddockJuly 27, 2015 0

A beginner’s guide to SAS Users Groups: How to choose the group that’s right for you

You’ve seen the notices on the SAS website or your company bulletin board. Perhaps you’ve gotten a meeting invitation via email or even heard a colleague talking about it. Still, you haven’t taken the plunge yet – you haven’t attended a SAS Users Group meeting, maybe because you’re uncertain about

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Teri PatsilarasJuly 22, 2015 0

Use Hub Shared Collections to automatically push VA reports to your users

The SAS Visual Analytics 7.2 release introduces a new look and feel to the Hub with the modern (HTML5) version. It also introduces a new feature, Shared Collections, which allows an administrator to push a Shared Collection to all users’ Hub view, including Guest access. And bonus - it will

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Programming Tips

Marjorie ShelleyJuly 21, 2015 0

What you should know about SAS Factory Miner

On July 14, 2015 SAS released SAS Factory Miner, our latest advanced data mining and machine learning product. This new product provides automated predictive modeling by segment in a high velocity grid enabled environment, allowing modelers to run hundreds of models within minutes and find champion models by segment quickly.

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Kathryn McLawhornJuly 17, 2015 0

Customizing output from PROC MEANS

Customizing the output data set created using the OUTPUT statement When you request statistics on the PROC MEANS statement, the default printed output creates a nice table with the analysis variable names in the left-most column and the statistics forming the additional columns. Even if you create an output data

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJuly 16, 2015 0

Integrating SAS reports with Google maps: two-pane solution

➤ DISCLOSURE! In June 2018 Google introduced changes to the way it handles its Maps platform. They now require API key in order to embed a map, plus Google Maps "projects" must now be associated with a billing account. Unless these new Google rules are met, Google maps described in

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonJuly 15, 2015 0

Where is my stuff? Documenting what is stored in SAS metadata

In a SAS Environment there is a lot of metadata, metadata about configuration such as server definitions, users, groups and roles and metadata about content like data, reports and jobs etc. SAS Administrators often want to report on metadata. They want to know what reports have been developed and where they are stored, what

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SAS Events

Maggie MillerJuly 13, 2015 0

Vote on the Analytics 2015 sessions you want to hear

Update: The winning sessions are Data mining - open source integration with SAS and Forecasting - multistage models for highly seasonal and/or sparse demand series. Get registered for the conference today. We'll see you in Las Vegas! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Analytics 2015 conference in Las Vegas, Oct. 26 and 27 is designed for

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenJuly 9, 2015 0

Providing multi-machine data for the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart

One of the great things that the new Data Mart will do for you is combine data from all the machines found in a multi-machine deployment into one storage area, where it is used to create many of the reports found in the Report Center. This capability began with the 14w41

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