Programming Tips

Nancy RauschNovember 17, 2023 0

A tip for moving SAS Visual Analytics reports in SAS Viya 4 between SAS Viya environments

In SAS Viya 4 you can create Reports in SAS Visual Analytics that you may want to move around between machines. What if you want copy a report for example from a development environment folder to a production environment folder? You may want to work on the report in one system before putting it onto a final system and making it generally available. Or you may want to have a backup copy saved for recovery purposes. This blog post provides an updated description of how to easily save off SAS Visual Analytics report content to a file and easily move it between machines.

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SAS Administrators

Gaby BehailuApril 20, 2023 0

SAS Administrators: Check out the new and improved support site

SAS has redesigned the support page made just for administrators to provide them with a seamless experience to install and maintain their SAS environment.

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 11, 2023 0

Automatic cloning of SAS metadata user groups and roles

SAS expert Leonid Batkhan demonstrates how to automatically replicate/clone metadata users’ groups and roles from one user to another.

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Learn SAS | SAS Administrators

Kelly HansonJanuary 4, 2023 0

New certification alert: SAS® Certified Specialist: Administration of SAS® Viya®

Thank you to my co-author Raymond Thomas for his assistance on this post. Learn more about the SAS Certified Specialist: Administration of SAS Viya and how to prepare. Certification overview SAS is pleased to announce a new SAS Viya Administration certification. Recognizing the growing need of cloud computing and Kubernetes,

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Ursula PoloDecember 20, 2022 0

ESM and S9CA: Useful Tools for Migration from SAS 9 to SAS Viya

Change is hard and can be a bit scary. We tend to resist change as we get comfortable with our routines and how things work. However, many times we fail to see the benefits of that something new. Imagine if we didn't move from MS DOS to Windows? If we'd

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanNovember 8, 2022 0

SAS administrator tip: How to identify and prevent duplicate librefs in SAS metadata

In this SAS administration tutorial Leonid Batkhan presents various SAS programming solutions on how to identify and prevent duplicate LIBREFs in SAS 9 metadata.

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Programming Tips

Ursula PoloAugust 29, 2022 0

SAS Viya Workload Orchestrator CLI Plug-in

A key tool for SAS Viya admins and many users is the command line interface (CLI). You can think of it in terms of other CLIs, but with direct access to SAS Viya. The CLI facilitates automation of tasks as well as other administrative functions. You can find information about

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Programming Tips

Ursula PoloJuly 27, 2022 0

Manage and Balance Workloads in SAS

SAS Grid Manager for Platform, SAS Grid Manager, and SAS Viya Workload Management all manage and balance job loads, right? So, are there three SAS products providing the same functionality? Let’s explore, as I am curious in your answer after you read this article. Each of the three applications has

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Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Matt ScicchitanoMay 17, 2022 0

Access for success: SAS Certification practice exams now offered for free

Here at SAS, we understand the importance of having access to cutting-edge professional resources. That’s why, for more than 40 years, we’ve provided individuals in programming, data management and analytics fields with low-cost and no-cost materials that promote success in their educational and professional journeys. And today, as the demand

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SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersMay 4, 2022 0

Configuring authentication for SAS Viya multi-tenancy: A 3-part series

The SAS Viya LTS 2021.2 release supports application multi-tenancy. This 3-part series reviews how authentication can be configured.

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Cloud | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Anthony KanDecember 6, 2021 0

A Novice Perspective on SAS Viya Deployment

This post is written in the hopes of easing the SAS Viya deployment process for novices like me. Firstly, deploying SAS Viya, like most enterprise software packages, isn't a skill we're innately born with. We're going to need a little help, some good documentation, and time to absorb the intricoes

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Learn SAS | SAS Events

Dina DuhonFebruary 25, 2021 0

What makes SAS Global Forum great?

The people, the energy, the quality of the content, the demos, the networking opportunities…whew, all of these things combine to make SAS Global Forum great every year. And that is no exception this year. Preparations are in full swing for an unforgettable conference. I hope you’ve seen the notifications that

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | Students & Educators

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 27, 2021 0

Game on! Here's a fun way to learn SAS

SAS' Leonid Batkhan encourages you to join him at SASensei, an independent, third-party online SAS learning resource (game).

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Anna BrownDecember 17, 2020 0

2020 roundup: SAS Users YouTube channel how to tutorials

Find out the most popular SAS Users YouTube channel how to tutorials, and learn a thing or two!

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SAS Administrators

Kim KalubaDecember 9, 2020 0

Meet My SAS

My SAS is a brand-new customer experience page. This new location takes a variety of customer service places and puts them in one interface. The goal of My SAS is to ensure all SAS customers have the best possible experience available in the marketplace.

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Learn SAS | SAS Events

Dina DuhonNovember 19, 2020 0

Connect, learn and share during virtual SAS Global Forum 2021

If you’re like me and the rest of the conference team, you’ve probably attended more virtual events this year than you ever thought possible. You can see the general evolution of virtual events by watching the early ones from April or May and compare them to the recent ones. We

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Programming Tips

Joe FurbeeNovember 18, 2020 0

Accessing Google Cloud Storage (GCS) with SAS Viya

The story goes on to the tune of 90 percent of available data today has been created in the last two years! As SAS (and the computing world) moves to the cloud, the question of, "How do I deal with my data (Big and otherwise), which used to be on-prem,

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SAS Administrators

Edoardo RivaSeptember 4, 2020 0

SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya: A Strong Relationship

Because SAS Viya provides distributed computing capabilities, customers wonder how it compares to SAS Grid Manager. SAS® Grid Manager and SAS® Viya® implement distributed computing according to different computational patterns.

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Programming Tips

Joe FurbeeApril 13, 2020 0

Storage in the Cloud – SAS and Azure

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various storage options available in Microsoft Azure. Access

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Learn SAS

Hannah HaskinsMarch 18, 2020 0

Tips and resources for making the most of your SAS experience

Let’s be honest, there is a lot of SAS content available on the web. Sometimes it gets difficult to navigate through everything to find what you need, especially if you are looking for complimentary resources. Training budgets can be limited or already used for the year, but you’re still interested

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeDecember 3, 2019 0

developer.sas.com 2.0: More than just a pretty interface

Site relaunches with improved content, organization and navigation. In 2016, a cross-divisional SAS team created developer.sas.com. Their mission: Build a bridge between SAS (and our software) and open source developers. The initial effort made available basic information about SAS® Viya® and integration with open source technologies. In June 2018, the

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SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeNovember 4, 2019 0

Accessing Databases in the Cloud – SAS Data Connectors and Microsoft Azure

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various database options available in Microsoft Azure. Access

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SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeSeptember 4, 2019 0

Storage in the Cloud – SAS and Amazon Web Services

Editor’s note: This article is a continuation of the series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. Access all the articles in the series here. In a previous article in this series, Accessing Databases in the Cloud – SAS

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SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeAugust 21, 2019 0

Accessing Databases in the Cloud – SAS Data Connectors and Amazon Web Services

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various database options available in Amazon Web Services.

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Analytics | Programming Tips | Risk Management

Frederik VandenbergheJune 18, 2019 0

Deploy SAS Viya on AWS - Quick Start

As a data scientist, did you ever come to the point where you felt the need for an evolved analytics platform bringing together the disparate skills of open source and commercial software? A system that can enable advanced analytic capabilities. This is now possible and easy to implement. With many

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeJune 10, 2019 0

Deploying the Full SAS Viya Stack in Kubernetes

This article is a follow-on to a recent post from Jeff Owens, Getting started with SAS Containers. In that post, Jeff discussed building and running a single container for a SAS Viya runtime/IDE. Today we will go through how to build and run the full SAS Viya stack - visual

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Frederik VandenbergheApril 12, 2019 0

Script for a SAS Viya installation on Azure in just one click

At the end of my SAS Users blog post explaining how to install SAS Viya on the Azure Cloud for a SAS Hackathon in the Nordics, I promised to provide some technical background. I ended up with only one manual step by launching a shell script from a Linux machine

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeMarch 6, 2019 0

Getting started with SAS Containers

As of December 2018, any customer with a valid SAS Viya order is able to package and deploy their SAS Viya software in Docker containers. SAS has provided a fully documented and supported project (or “recipe”) for easily building these containers. So how can you start? You can simply stop

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanMarch 5, 2019 0

How to conditionally terminate a SAS batch flow process in UNIX/Linux

In automated production (or business operations) environments, we often run SAS job flows in batch mode and on schedule. SAS job flow is a collection of several inter-dependent SAS programs executed as a single process. In my earlier posts, Running SAS programs in batch under Unix/Linux and Let SAS write

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Frederik VandenbergheFebruary 1, 2019 0

Installing SAS Viya Azure virtual machines with a single click

I don't know about you, but when I read challenges like: Detecting hidden heart failure before it harms an individual Can SAS Viya AI help to digitalize pension management? How to recommend your next adventure based on travel data How to use advanced analytics in building a relevant next best

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