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Ursula PoloMay 5, 2021 6

Tips for Scheduling Flows with SAS Viya Environment Manager

Set it and forget it. That’s how SAS Viya Jobs and Flows should work, right? Well, just like most other things in life, it’s not that simple. What if you have multiple Jobs set to run in a Flow and one fails? Do you exit the process or continue with

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Cloud | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Tara St. ClairApril 23, 2021 4

Group-based access to Azure Files in the new SAS Viya

You've probably heard by now the new SAS Viya runs on containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. There is a lot to know and learn for both experienced users and k8s noobies alike. I would recommend searching the SAS Communities Library for a wealth of information on deployment, administration, usability, and more.

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Programming Tips

Chevell ParkerApril 20, 2021 2

Creating a report that displays only the column headings for a data set containing 0 records

This blog demonstrates how to create a report that provides only the column headings for data that is missing. The blog also explains how to create, select, and exclude output objects as well as how to generate reports with the SAS® Output Delivery System (ODS). These concepts are relevant to the task of generating a report with the column headings for a data set that contains no (0) observations.

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Dina DuhonApril 20, 2021 0

Registration is open for a truly inspiring SAS Global Forum 2021

SAS Global Forum 2021 will be jam-packed with inspiring content. Register today to ensure you don't miss a second of this year's event.

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Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanApril 14, 2021 18

Using shell scripts for massively parallel processing

SAS' Leonid Batkhan explores shell scripting as an alternative way to implement parallel processing.

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Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanApril 1, 2021 32

To be and not to be – the uncertainty principle in SAS

If I were to say that we live in uncertain times, that would probably be an understatement. Therefore, I won’t say that. Oops, I already did. Or did I? For centuries, people around the world have been busy scratching their heads in search of a meaningful answer to Shakespeare’s profoundly

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Cindy WangMarch 25, 2021 0

Programmatically export a Visual Analytics report to PDF

Readers of my earlier post Discover Visual Analytics Report Paths with REST APIs asked for ways to export SAS Visual Analytics (VA) report content programmatically. I know this is a topic of interest from many VA report designers. So, I think it’s better to write something on this and I

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