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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Lexi HawksJune 1, 2018 0

Is there a “Big Red Button” to use The SAS Platform?

For software users and SAS administrators, the question of how to streamline their approach into the easiest to use system that most effectively completes the task at hand. At SAS Global Forum 2018, the topic of a “Big Red Button” for the SAS Platform was an idea that got audience members excited. Here's a review of that talk.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanMay 30, 2018 0

Are you developing foolproof solutions?

It is imperative for developers, whether hardware or software engineers, to foresee unintended (probable or improbable) system usages and implement features that will make their creations foolproof, that is protected from misuse. Learn more about developing foolproof solutions with this old Russian anecdote.

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Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerApril 19, 2018 0

SAS Visual Analytics filters on periodic calculations: Apply them or ignore them!

SAS Visual Analytics filters in 7.4 and 8.2 enable you to improve the appearance of reports based on calculations that use periodic operators. Parameter settings also enable you to provide users with a prompt for choosing the data to display in a report, without having any effect on the calculations themselves.

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SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersApril 12, 2018 0

SAS Viya 3.3 Kerberos Delegation from SAS 9.4M5

You can now enable Kerberos delegation across the SAS Platform, using a single strong authentication mechanism across that single platform. As always with configuring Kerberos authentication the prerequisites, in terms of Service Principal Names, service accounts, delegation settings, and keytabs are important for success.

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersMarch 29, 2018 0

SAS Viya 3.3 Kerberos Delegation

Learn about the new feature of SAS Viya 3.3 that enables Kerberos delegation throughout the environment. It allows you to have end-user sessions in SAS Cloud Analytics Services that are able to use Kerberos to connect to Secured Hadoop.

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SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonMarch 8, 2018 0

SAS Viya command-line interfaces for Administration

SAS Viya 3.3 introduced a set of command-line interfaces that SAS Viya administrators will find extremely useful. The command-line interfaces(CLI) will allow administrators to perform numerous administrative tasks in batch as an alternative to using the SAS Environment Manager interface. In addition, calls to the CLI’s can be chained together

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SAS Administrators

Christine Vitron

Christine VitronFebruary 28, 2018 0

Admin Notebook: Making the case for selectively backing up metadata

Let’s say that you are administering a SAS 9.4 environment that is working just fine. You’ve checked that your full backups are indeed happening and you’ve even tried restoring from one of your backups. You are prepared for anything, right? Well, I’d like to propose a scenario to you. You

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersFebruary 14, 2018 0

SAS Viya 3.3 - Some Kerberos principles

In this article, I will set out clear principles for how SAS Viya 3.3 will interoperate with Kerberos. My aim is to present some overview concepts for how we can use Kerberos authentication with SAS Viya 3.3. We will look at both SAS Viya 3.3 clients and SAS 9.4M5 clients.

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Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerFebruary 7, 2018 0

Creating a regional map with custom polygons in SAS Visual Analytics 8.2

In my last article, I worked with an example of using custom polygon data to create a regional geo map in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4. In this article, I will use almost the same example to illustrate the ease of implementing custom polygons to produce the same regional map in

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerFebruary 7, 2018 0

Creating a custom regional map in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4

By default, SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 supports country and state level polygons for regional geomaps. In SAS Visual Analytics 7.4, custom shape files are now supported, as well. This means that if a site has their own custom polygon data that defines custom regions, it’s possible to create a region

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SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersJanuary 16, 2018 0

SAS Viya 3.3 authentication options

In this article, I want to give you an overview of the authentication options available with SAS Viya 3.3. SAS Viya 3.3, released in the second week of December 2017, and the second release with the new microservices architecture, presents more options for authentication than the previous releases. In future

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanDecember 19, 2017 0

Running SAS programs in batch under Unix/Linux

While SAS program development is usually done in an interactive SAS environment (SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Display Manager, SAS Studio, etc.), when it comes to running SAS programs in a production or operations environment, it is routinely done in batch mode. Why run SAS programs in batch mode? First and

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SAS Administrators

Christine Vitron

Christine VitronDecember 18, 2017 0

SAS Admin Notebook: Managing SAS Configuration Directory Security for SAS Visual Analytics

In my last article, Managing SAS Configuration Directory Security, we stepped through the process for granting specific users more access without opening up access to everyone. One example addressed how to modify security for autoload. There are several other aspects of SAS Visual Analytics that can benefit from a similar

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonDecember 6, 2017 0

An introduction to authorization in SAS Viya

Authorization determines what a user can see and do in an application. An authorization system is used to define access control policies, and those policies are later enforced so that access requests are granted or denied. To secure resources in SAS Viya there are three authorization systems of which you need to be aware. The General

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonDecember 6, 2017 0

LDAP basics for the SAS Viya administrator

ln SAS Viya, deployments identities are managed by the environments configured identity provider. In Visual SAS Viya deployments the identity provider must be an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server. Initial setup of a SAS Viya Deployment requires configuration to support reading the identity information (users and groups) from LDAP. SAS Viya 3.3

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Data Management | SAS Administrators

connect sas db2 via odbc

Roberto Meléndez

Roberto MeléndezNovember 16, 2017 0

Connecting SAS to a DB2 database via ODBC without tears

This guide instructs you through the steps that set up a successful connection between SAS and a remote DB2 database via ODBC on Linux, without tears.

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Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Teri PatsilarasNovember 13, 2017 0

Using Date Parameters in your SAS Visual Analytics Reports

SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 has added the support for date parameters. Recall from my first post, Using parameters in SAS Visual Analytics, a parameter is a variable whose value can be changed at any time by the report viewer and referenced by other report objects. These objects can be a

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

David SternNovember 1, 2017 0

Creating and uploading custom icons and map pin icons in SAS® Visual Investigator

SAS Visual Investigator has an attractive user interface. One of its most engaging features is the network diagram, which represents related ‘entities’ and the connections between them, allowing an investigator to see and explore relationships in their source data. For maximum impact, each entity in the network diagram should have an

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SAS Administrators

Christine Vitron

Christine VitronNovember 1, 2017 0

SAS Admin Notebook: Managing SAS Configuration Directory Security

Need to grant one or more users access to part of your secure SAS configuration directory? You can do it without opening up your SAS configuration directory to everyone. Most SAS 9.4 Platform deployments on Unix have been done using the SAS Installer account known as sas. The sas account

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Phil WeissOctober 20, 2017 0

Top 12 Advantages of SAS Viya

There are many compelling reasons existing SAS users might want to start integrating SAS Viya into their SAS9 programs and applications. For me, it comes down to ease-of-use, speed, and faster time-to-value. With the ability to traverse the (necessarily iterative) analytics lifecycle faster than before, we are now able to generate

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanOctober 20, 2017 0

Creating reports in style with SAS Enterprise Guide

“The difference between style and fashion is quality.” -Giorgio Armani With an out-of-the-box SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) installation, when you build a report in SAS EG it is displayed in a nice-looking default style. If you like it, you can keep it, and continue reading. If you don’t quite

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Analytics | Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonOctober 16, 2017 0

A tip for moving content between SAS Viya environments

In a SAS Viya 3.2 environment two types of content can be created: SAS Visual Analytics Reports and Data Plans. For administrators, who may want to manage that content within a folder structure, there are some things to keep in mind. In the current release, both types of content can be

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SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonSeptember 25, 2017 0

A review of the options available for upgrading a SAS 9 deployment

With the fifth maintenance release of SAS 9.4 (SAS 9.4M5) now available, it seems like a good time to get a refresher on some of the ways you can upgrade your existing SAS deployments to the latest release. Among several benefits, SAS 9.4M5 provides closer integration with the CAS in-memory runtime engine

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Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerSeptember 7, 2017 0

How do I access the Premium Esri Map Service for my SAS Visual Analytics reports?

In SAS Visual Analytics 8.1, report creators have the ability to include drive-distance and drive-time in their geographical maps, but only if their site has an Esri ArcGIS Online account and they have valid credentials for the account. In the user Settings for SAS Visual Analytics Geographic Mapping 8.1 release,

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SAS Administrators

Roberto Meléndez

Roberto MeléndezAugust 18, 2017 0

Making the sas.servers script look pretty

This blog post provides the steps for applying color and an easy-to-read layout to make the sas.servers script look cute and even fun!

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SAS Administrators

Garrett BenoitJuly 28, 2017 0

Controlling Stored Process Execution through Request Initialization Code Injection

Recently, I was working with a client who had a unique problem. He needed a way to cancel a stored process from executing in cases where the stored process wasn’t registered to the matching Metadata folder-structure for its selected server context. For example, if a stored process was stored under

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SAS Administrators

Zachary JonesJune 30, 2017 0

Using multiple server contexts in SAS Visual Analytics

As a technical consultant for SAS, I have the privilege of meeting with SAS customers, learning more about how they use our software, and then helping them solve their problems. Recently, a client of mine was having trouble finding a way to implement the use of multiple application servers in

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SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonJune 29, 2017 0

New rules for authorization in SAS Viya

In this blog post I’d like to explore how to create a custom group in SAS Viya to restrict access to functionality. To illustrate my points, we will create a report developers custom group and ensure that only users of that group can create reports and analysis in SAS Visual Analytics.

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SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerJune 29, 2017 0

The SAS Visual Analytics 8.1 Data Pane: Creating Calculations and Aggregations

In my last blog, we examined the data pane in SAS Visual Analytics 8.1. That blog discussed how to have the data pane display the data items of your active data source, and how to perform tasks such as viewing measure details, changing data item properties, and creating geographic data items,

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Analytics | SAS Administrators

Mary Kathryn QueenJune 13, 2017 0

The Self-Service Import in SAS Viya 3.2

In SAS Viya 3.2, the Self-Service Import provides a mechanism for a user to import (copy) data into the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) environment. The data is copied as a .sashdat file into the selected CAS Library location when it is imported. Self-Service Import data can only be imported into

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