Included are some notes on Portal Administration in SAS 9.2. 1. Create a User Group in SMC, include members and a content administrator to this group. 2. Restart the Web Service or Log into Portal as sasadm@saspw (per documentation: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biwaag/63059/HTML/default/ag_permissiontrees.htm) 3. Configure a group content administrator by opening the 'Group
So you want to grab tweets from twitter? There are several other blog posts to assist, including the SAS blog reference below. Grab the status of one twitter account (changing USERNAME to the twitter handle) via: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=&USERNAME&count;=3200 Then to help folks get jumpstarted, use the XMLMAP that I created below
As I mentioned earlier this week via Twitter: "Newsalert: You are no longer considered an expert if you hoard all the info to yourself. You MUST share - train/blog/ppr/tweet!" (http://twitter.com/angelahall1/status/7445045263) I have personally experienced subject matter experts who refuse to share the information they learn. They feel they must charge
For SAS 9.2 implementations, changing SASADM, SASSRV, and other SAS account passwords has gotten much easier. The SAS 9.2 Deployment Manager Tool (found at /SAS Deployment Manager/9.2/config.exe) can actually be run to complete this task! The section starting with "To update a password with SAS Deployment Manager:" on page: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bisecag/61133/HTML/default/a003071148.htm#a003262956
When you are looking for SAS geared jobs, Monster.com and other main Job Boards are pretty good. However there are niche locations on the web to help you with a SAS specific job search. Included is my initial list: 1. SAS Professionals (http://www.sasprofessionals.net/) 2. I-Crunch Data (http://www.icrunchdata.com/) 3. Linked In Group:
It is definitely easier to force single selections for prompts used in SAS Stored Processes, however it isn't very usable when the majority of users need to select multiple values. For example, let us say we create a prompt for region (called 'region_prompt') and then use that in the query
The SAS Business Intelligence suite includes the ability to map data via the ESRI Map Service within various web clients (and even Enterprise Guide). Steps: Create an ESRI Map via ArcMap Publish to ArcGIS Server via ArcCatalog Define a New Map Service in SAS Management Console Set a cube dimension as
First, there were some joke tweets this past week about funny/off-the-wall iPhone apps ~ playing off the marketing: ‘There’s an App for That’. Then there were discussions on application development processes with co-workers. So these lead me to consider the current options for SAS shops to surface information to their
As you might have noticed, you are unable to select a brand new file location for SAS code when creating a SAS Stored Process via Enterprise Guide. The only options are previously defined 'source code repositories'. The SAS Administrator (or anyone else with SAS Management Console & the associated access), can
Please note, that the most recent (released October 2009) SAS Maintenance Release for 9.2 requires a manual step in Windows to restart Remote Services the first time after completing the installation. (Figured I missed something bad when we got nasty errors after redeploying our SAS web applications.) "you must restart
