During the SESUG2008 Conference, I attended the presentation: "Best Practices for SAS BI Administrators: Using SAS Configuration Troubleshooter to Keep SAS Solutions and SAS BI Applications Running Smoothly" by Tanya Kalich. It appears to be a great tool to troubleshoot initial installations or manage major changes to the configuration. The
Can you believe it? Three years ago the SAS BI-ogsource was started as a central area to store my personal musings about how to best use and manage the SAS Business Intelligence Solution (and the various components). It has been interesting meeting people from around the globe and see how
Click 'Help' -> 'About SAS Web Report Studio' to display the list of hotfixes applied to the installation. http://support.sas.com/kb/20/281.html
In the past we’ve had a lot of issues with calling stored processes from the SAS Portal without being “re-prompted” for authentication. We’ve tested this approach out and it works. http://support.sas.com/kb/19/234.html (Submitted by Brian Miles, Zencos Consulting)
Mentioned during a paper at the NESUG conference, Lex Jansen has set up a complete search of SAS papers on his website: http://www.lexjansen.com/ I typically use the SAS Global Forum search (http://support.sas.com/events/sasglobalforum/previous/online.html) but Lex brought in all the regional and industry specific papers.
Want to change the text in the SAS Web Report Studio header from "SAS Web Report Studio" to "ACME Inc" or any other company name? Create a LocalProperties.xml in the folder: C:\Program Files\SAS\SASWebReportStudio\3.1\customer (for Windows) Set the Company Logo visible XML tab to ‘false’ and the change the Product Logo
RemovePageTemplate.sas in /Portal/OMR Modify parameters at the beginning of the program. After submitting the sas code, the default home page is removed.
When building the cube, the OLAP Server is not the workhorse, it is the Workspace Server. Therefore, when receiving out of memory errors during Cube Building, check the MEMSIZE within the Workspace Server configuration. ERROR: A problem was encountered during data summarization. NOTE: The initial memory limit for classification tables
Did you know that there is a wealth of SAS Training Material for free? I have this bookmarked for reference material and continued education. Free Tutorials: UPDATED URL (2009Aug03) http://support.sas.com/training/elearn/tutorials/ SAS Papers Online: http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/ Users Group Proceedings: http://support.sas.com/events/sasglobalforum/previous/online.html
A consistent theme has occurred over the past couple months, navigating the SAS Documentation is a must-learn skill. Easily access the functions, proc statements, special (component specific) topics is essential! Included below is the overview documentation on the SAS Intelligence Platform: The SAS V9 Documentation includes information about the SAS
