Tag: business intelligence

Angela Hall 1
Setting up SAS Service App and Tomcat as Services

Of course, you will need to stop Tomcat and SAS Services windows before performing these steps. Therefore it’s best to do after hours. ============================================================= FIRST: Running Remotely Deployed Services as a Windows Service SAS 9.1.3 and higher provides the capability to run the remote SAS Services application as a Windows

Angela Hall 0
SAS Service Configuration Utility

For BI Installations, a SAS Service Configuration Utility is available to manage your sas services in a window's environment. Go to Start->Programs->SAS->SAS 9.1 Utilities->SAS Service Configuration Utility. You can install, remove, and set options on the Windows Services. (Thanks goes to Bryan for pointing neat utility out.)

Angela Hall 0
Stored Process Manager Moved to BI Manager Plug-In

SAS Management Console Plug-in BI Manager "The "Stored Process Manager" has been replaced by the "BI Manager" in the SAS Management Console when running SAS 9.1.3 SP4 and later. The "BI Manager" contains all of the functionality (and more) that was present in the "Stored Process Manager." So, the "Stored

Angela Hall 2
SAS Service Pack 4 is Out!

Here are a few major points with the new SP4 install: Make sure you are logged in with the SAME user account that initially installed the system. A quick check in the "Start -> Program File -> SAS -> <bi config folder> ->" location can show you. If you haven't

Angela Hall 0
Custom Portlets and Text Editors

UltraEdit is not the tool of choice for developing Information Delivery Portal (IDP) Custom Portlets. One of my colleagues found this out after spending many hours with .par compile problems. Turns out that UltraEdit was inserting funky characters and hexidecimal code. Of course, SAS is smooth - but it isn't

Angela Hall 0
Efficient Coding of SAS Programs

Are there best practices for SAS programs? How can you make them efficient? Does it really matter if a program takes .3 seconds or .10 seconds to run? Some code that I have seen in the last two days points to the fact that efficiencies in SAS code (or Java

Angela Hall 1
Recommended Freeware

Found this freeware while at a Customer Site this week. In the first couple days of use, this appears to be an excellent mechanism to connect to remove web servers to move files. http://www.smartftp.com/download/

Angela Hall 2
Open an OLAP Cube through SAS Portal

From SAS Portal, after you log in you can click Search on the top right, type in the OLAP Cube name, choose 'Information Map' and click 'Search'. There might be multiple OLAP cubes available - but pay attention to the paths. Those located in the following file structure are preferred.

Angela Hall 0
Customizing SASTheme_winter for your customer/organization

(Refer back to my post on "Setting up the SASTheme_winter in SAS Portal" to get the initial files loaded in the servlet container.) I have found that by modifying the following stylesheets and HTML files, I can get the new theme banner to meet the web design requirements. themes\SAS\Themes.xml themes\theme_name\stylesPortal.css

Angela Hall 1
Setting up the SASTheme_Winter in Information Delivery Portal

This is the basics to adding another background/color scheme to the Information Delivery Portal preferences. SAS provides a SASTheme_Winter.war file in the {sas root}\Web\Portal2.0.1 folder. (according to the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit, this is available in Service Pack 2 & beyond). 1. For SASTheme_Winter, copy the .war file to Tomcat's

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