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SAS instructor Raymond Thomas touts the benefits of Report Center, part of SAS Environment Manager Extended Monitoring.
SAS instructor Raymond Thomas describes a typical day in the life of a SAS Administrator.
If you're my kids, the term, “continuous integration,” might have you thinking about how much time you’ve spent lately with the family, and “continuous delivery” is what's been happening on the front porch the past few weeks. But to a software developer, these terms mean something entirely different. Combined and
It’s official: NASA no longer builds spaceships. They’ve outsourced that task. According to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, "We're going with commercial partners. NASA is not purchasing, owning and operating the hardware. We're buying the service." Why? Because NASA needs to focus on exploring space, not building the transportation to get
Updated Nov. 18, 2020 The demand for data skills has been growing at a rapid rate and will continue to progress for years to come. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), Data and AI will experience the highest annual growth rate for job opportunities, at 41%. It’s no surprise
Stored processes were a very popular feature in SAS 9.4. They were used in reporting, analytics and web application development. In Viya, the equivalent feature is jobs. Using jobs the same way as stored processes was enhanced in Viya 3.5. In addition, there is preliminary support for promoting 9.4 stored processes to Viya. In this post, I will examine what is sure to be a popular feature for SAS 9.4 users starting out with Viya.
Um dos principais focos do SAS é entregar, aos clientes, soluções comprovadas e inovadoras que garantam a melhoria do seu desempenho e os ajudem a diferenciar-se dentro da sua área e mercado de atuação. Ajudá-los a tirar o máximo proveito de cada ferramenta faz também parte da missão do SAS,
In this blog, I will show you how a Viya administrator can track and control resource usage of personal caslibs.
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
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
Newcomers to SAS Viya Administration may appreciate these tried-and-tested patterns for securing folders, and the content within them (reports, data plans, models etc.). If you are new to security model design in SAS Viya, this post is for you.
The Viya Operations Infrastructure provides components to collect and store log messages in order to manage a large number of logs enable you to locate messages of interest.
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
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.
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
Understanding SAS 9.4 architecture is key to tackling the tasks and responsibilities that come with SAS administration, and will help you know where to look to make changes or troubleshoot problems.
A look at SAS Viya's promotion process including what can be promoted, the tools that support promotion, and what happens to your content.
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
As word spreads that SAS integrates with open source technologies, people are beginning to explore how to connect, interact with, and use SAS in new ways. More and more users are examining the possibilities and with this comes questions like: How do I code A, integrate B, and accomplish C?
When working with files like SAS programs, images, documents, logs, etc., we are used to accessing them in operating system directories. In Viya, many of these files are not stored on the file-system. Let's look at where and how files are stored in Viya, and how to manage them.
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
Multi-tenancy is one of the exciting new capabilities of SAS Viya. Because it is so new, there is quite a lot of misinformation going around about it. I would like to offer you five key things to know about multi-tenancy before implementing a project using this new paradigm. All tenants
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
You'll notice several changes in SAS Grid Manager with the release of SAS 9.4M6. This post gives a brief architectural description of the new SAS grid provider, including all major components and their role.
Find out about this new set of tools designed to be used in conjunction with the sas-admin command line interfaces.
Have you adopted use of Microsoft Office 365? How has working "in the cloud" affected your integration with SAS applications? SAS product management wants to hear from you.
In SAS Viya 3.4, promotion support has been added for many additional SAS 9.4 resources, making it easier to make the leap to Viya. In this blog, SAS' Gerry Nelson reviews this new functionality.
Recently I’ve been listening to the BBC Radio Series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, which was first broadcast in 2016. One of the episodes considers the impact of a simple box (the shipping container) and concludes its invention was a major contributor to the post-war boom in global
このブログでは、SAS Viyaで提供される各種機能やリソースへのアクセス制限を設定する方法を紹介します。 ユーザーやグループが行うことができる（あるいは参照することができる）内容はルールによって設定されます。ルールは以下の権限要素によって構成されています。： ・プリンシパル：ユーザーまたはグループ。 ・ターゲット：サービス、フォルダ、レポートなどのリソース。 ・権限：アクセスのタイプ（たとえば、読み取りまたは書き込み）。 ・設定：アクセスが提供されているかどうかの表示、たとえば許可または禁止。 ルールのターゲットは、uniform resource identifier（uri）を使用して識別されます。URIは、フォルダやレポート、データプランなどのコンテンツ、またはデータのインポートなどの各種の機能などを表すことができます。 SAS Viyaでのuriの例をいくつか紹介します。 ・データプラン：/ dataPreparationPlans / plans / 810e2c6b-4733-4d53-94fd-dfeb4df0de9e ・フォルダ：/ folders / folders / e28e35af-2673-4fc7-81fa-1a074f4c0de9 ・機能性：/ SASVisualAnalytics / ** 以下の例では、「レポート開発者」カスタムグループを作成し、そのグループのユーザーのみがSAS Visual Analyticsでレポートを作成することができるように設定しています。 カスタムグループを作成します。 ルールを使用して、そのグループに使用機能に対する権限を設定します。 1. カスタムグループを作成 SAS Viyaの環境の管理（SAS Environment Manager）上で、管理者（管理者のみがユーザーとグループを管理できます）が、ユーザー＞カスタムグループ＞カスタムグループの新規作成を選択します。 カスタムグループの新規作成画面で、「名前」にグループ名、「ID」に一意のID、「説明」に必要に応じて説明を記載します。 新しいグループが作成されたら、編集ボタンをクリックして、新しいメンバーをグループに追加します。 ユーザーまたは他のグループを新しいグループのメンバーとして追加することができます。 ２．ルールを使用して、そのグループに使用機能に対する権限を設定 「レポート開発者」グループのみがSAS Visual Analyticsの機能にアクセスできるようにルールを作成、または更新します。まず、SAS Visual Analyticsに現在適用されているルールを見ていきます。 環境の管理（SAS Environment
SAS batch jobs can generate many log files that accumulate over time. In this post, we present a SAS program that cleans up old log files on your system.
