SAS Recently updated the Third Party Software page for SAS equipment (http://support.sas.com/thirdpartysupport). In order for Xythos to successfully integrate with SAS, if SQL Server is used the database version it must be MS SQL Server 2000. MS SQL Server 2005 is not supported for the integration between Xythos and any
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 you create (in SAS Management Console) a user group with parentheses in it's name you cannot assign a Portal page to that group. A NullPointerException results instead. The workaround is "don't do that", or remove the parentheses if you did. While I haven't exhaustively tested the boundaries of this
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
