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Gerry NelsonMarch 28, 2016 0

Who changed my SAS Visual Analytics reports and explorations?

In a couple of my previous blogs I discussed how to audit who made changes to data in a SAS environment. In the last couple of weeks I have been asked how to do the same thing for SAS Visual Analytics reports and explorations. The Visual Analytics administrator overview report

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Uttam KumarFebruary 22, 2016 0

Copy data to Hadoop using SAS Data Loader

The SAS Data Loader directive ‘Copy Data to Hadoop’ enables you to copy data from DBMS to Hadoop Hive tables. The SAS Data Loader for Hadoop can be configured to copy data from any external database which offers JDBC database connectivity. SAS Data Loader uses the Apache Sqoop™ and Oozie

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Edoardo RivaFebruary 9, 2016 0

New year resolution: Don't let old stuff slow down your SAS Grid

As another year goes by, many people think about new year’s resolutions. It’s probably the third year in row that I’ve promised myself I’d start exercising in the fabulous SAS gym. Of course, I blame the recently concluded holiday season. With all the food-focused events, I couldn’t resist, ate way

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Bobbie WagonerFebruary 8, 2016 0

Accessing the provided Relationship Report in SAS Visual Analytics 7.3

In SAS Visual Analytics 7.3, the usage reports accessed from the administrator includes a relationship report. This report provides very basic lineage and dependency information for selected object types. The data to populate this report comes from the middle-tier relationship service. Once you enable the collection and extraction of this

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Gerry NelsonJanuary 26, 2016 0

What is going on with my Visual Analytics audit data archiving?

In my last blog (What is going on with my Visual Analytics audit data collection) I reviewed how middle-tier auditing works and where to look for logs to debug issues. In this follow up blog I will do the same for the Visual Analytics audit data archiving process. The archive process is

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 13, 2016 0

SAS administrators tip: Keeping track of SAS users

If you are a SAS Administrator who is tasked with managing SAS users including adding and removing SAS users in the SAS Management Console, assigning (or re-assigning) them to Groups and Roles, maintaining their General information and user Accounts, then you know that when number of users grow, at some

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SAS Administrators

Larry LaRussoJanuary 8, 2016 0

Help for SAS administrators only a click away

If you install, update, manage or maintain a SAS deployment, you're a SAS administrator, and a very valuable resource for your organization. Every day, SAS users at your company depend on you to do their job. Being a SAS administrator is a critical and rewarding role, but it can sometimes be a lonely one as

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Gerry NelsonDecember 29, 2015 0

What is going on with my Visual Analytics audit data collection?

In my last blog I discussed purging audit records from the Web Infrastructure Platform SharedServices database. The blog generated a fair bit of discussion around the SAS Visual Analytics auditing data gathering and archive process. So let’s take a step back and in this blog review how data collection for auditing works and

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SAS Administrators

Margaret CrevarNovember 18, 2015 0

Tips to keep your SAS system humming

From time to time we’ll hear from customers who are encountering performance issues. SAS has a sound methodology for resolving these issues and we are always here to keep your SAS system humming. However, many problems can be resolved with some simple suggestions. This blog will discuss different types of

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Data Management | SAS Administrators

Charlotte CrainNovember 11, 2015 0

In-Database Nirvana – The Five Step Process to run business rules without moving data

The phrase “business rules” is often loosely used. It can refer to things like constraints in a query, a data mapping, a data quality constraint, a data transformation, or a model. Business rules also reflect an enforced policy, a regulatory requirement and business constraints on model scores that trigger analytically-driven

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Gerry NelsonNovember 9, 2015 0

Controlling the Size of the Web Infrastructure Platform Database Audit Tables

SAS Visual Analytics contains an Administrator Overview report which provides for Visual Analytics usage information by application, user, and object. To provide data for the report you must enable collection of key actions audit data in the Visual Analytics Middle-Tier. Auditing doesn’t just apply to Visual Analytics, it can be

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Dave NadenNovember 5, 2015 0

SAS Environment Manager: Details on Alerting

We all know that alerting is one of the most powerful features of SAS Environment Manager; the flexibility and comprehensiveness of this feature is one of the things that makes SAS EV stand out among monitoring tools. If we dig a little deeper, we find that we have quite a bit of

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Bobbie WagonerOctober 21, 2015 0

The SAS Visual Analytics Home Page: It’s not just for Visual Analytics anymore!

As of Visual Analytics 7.2, the home page is designed to serve as the entry point for not only Visual Analytics, but also additional SAS applications and solutions. To this end, the SAS Visual Analytics home page is documented in both the SAS Visual Analytics Administration Guide and the SAS Intelligence

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Gerry NelsonOctober 7, 2015 0

Part 2: Auditing data access, who did what and when?

In my last blog, I demonstrated how to configure a SAS server to write a record to a log file showing who is opening, editing or renaming a SAS table. In this blog we will see how we can process that information. The documentation shows one way to do this via

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Gerry NelsonSeptember 30, 2015 0

Auditing data access: who did what and when?

SAS Administrators are frequently asked to log and report on which users are accessing SAS tables. This functionality is often requested by companies who, for regulatory compliance, need to track who is accessing data. In my next couple of blogs I will show how you can audit data access. In this first blog

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Dave NadenSeptember 17, 2015 0

Monitoring Database Usage with SAS Environment Manager

Many administrators are familiar with the well-known “WIP Data Server” component of a SAS installation–so this blog takes a closer look at it, and shows how easy it is to monitor how large the database is growing. This data server contains a SAS-critical database known as the SharedServices Database, which is

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Scott McCauleySeptember 3, 2015 0

Deleting old backups with SAS Backup Manager

As Gerry Nelson pointed out in an earlier post on 9.4M3, a new interface to the SAS Backup and Recovery Tool is available from the Administration application in SAS Environment Manager. This new SAS Backup Manager interface makes scheduling regular backups and executing ad hoc backups extremely easy to do

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Bobbie WagonerSeptember 2, 2015 0

SAS Visual Analytics 7.3: Check out the sample reports!

New in the 7.3 release, SAS Visual Analytics now provides sample objects. During installation, the SAS Deployment Wizard prompts you to include sample reports by default. In addition to eight reports, an exploration and ten sample datasets are also included in the samples. These sample reports and datasets are available by industry

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Edoardo RivaAugust 27, 2015 0

What’s new in SAS Grid Manager 9.4M3 architecture

If you have, or are considering, SAS Grid Manager, you’ll be excited to hear about two new changes to the product that make it even better for managing and processing in your analytics environment. The two changes were made in conjunction with the release of SAS 9.4M3 in July, and

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Rob CollumAugust 26, 2015 0

Keeping SAS current with Java 7

As of April 15, 2015, Oracle is no longer providing public updates of the Java 7 runtime environment (JRE) or software development kit (JDK). SAS 9.3 and SAS 9.4, however, continue to rely on Java 7 for support of business production. SAS has therefore contracted with Oracle to continue receiving

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Dave NadenAugust 19, 2015 0

Monitor your SASWORK directory from SAS Environment Manager

Everyone who codes with SAS knows what the SASWORK directory space is, and everyone who has ever managed a medium-large installation knows that you need to monitor this space to avoid a huge buildup of worthless disk usage. One of the most common snarls happens when large SAS jobs go

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Bobbie WagonerAugust 13, 2015 0

Visual Analytics 7.3: A peek at HTML5 interfaces

The new 7.3 release of SAS Visual Analytics not only uses the new HTML5 home page as the entry point to the Visual Analytics environment, but also introduces the new HTML5 viewer. The HTML5 home page interface features a personalized welcome message, tiles for content organization (Recent, Links, Favorites), icons to access

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Stuart RogersJuly 31, 2015 0

SAS 9.4: Transport Layer Security (HTTPS) and SAS

Encryption and SAS is a wide ranging topic – so wide it gets its own book and features strongly in both the SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide, Second Edition and SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide, Third Edition. In this blog we’ll take a high level look at

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Gerry NelsonJuly 29, 2015 0

Great new functionality for SAS Administrators in 9.4 M3

SAS 9.4 M3 released in July 2015 with some interesting new features and functionality for platform SAS administrators. In this blog I will review at a very high level the major new features. For details you can see the SAS 9.4 System Administration guide. SAS 9.4 M3 includes a new release

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Teri PatsilarasJuly 22, 2015 0

Use Hub Shared Collections to automatically push VA reports to your users

The SAS Visual Analytics 7.2 release introduces a new look and feel to the Hub with the modern (HTML5) version. It also introduces a new feature, Shared Collections, which allows an administrator to push a Shared Collection to all users’ Hub view, including Guest access. And bonus - it will

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Gerry NelsonJuly 15, 2015 0

Where is my stuff? Documenting what is stored in SAS metadata

In a SAS Environment there is a lot of metadata, metadata about configuration such as server definitions, users, groups and roles and metadata about content like data, reports and jobs etc. SAS Administrators often want to report on metadata. They want to know what reports have been developed and where they are stored, what

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Dave NadenJuly 9, 2015 0

Providing multi-machine data for the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart

One of the great things that the new Data Mart will do for you is combine data from all the machines found in a multi-machine deployment into one storage area, where it is used to create many of the reports found in the Report Center. This capability began with the 14w41

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David SternJuly 7, 2015 0

Anonymization for analysts, report designers and information owners

This is my second blog on the topic of anonymization, which I’ve spent some time over the past several months researching. My first blog, Anonymization for data managers, focused on the technical process. Now let’s dive into the role for analysts, report designers and information owners. To analysts and reporting

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Data Management | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

David SternJuly 2, 2015 0

Anonymization for data managers

I’ve spent some time over the past couple of months learning more about anonymization. This began with an interest in the technical methods used to protect sensitive personally-identifiable information in a SAS data warehouse and analytics platform we delivered for a customer. But I learned that anonymization has two rather different meanings; one in the

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SAS Migration Utility output showing two errors encountered during analysis phase

Gerry NelsonJune 17, 2015 0

Recent improvements to SAS automated migration tools

Recent updates to SAS 9.4 have introduced some nice improvements in support of automated migration using the SAS Migration Utility and SAS Deployment Wizard. SAS has been working hard to make the migration experience more user friendly and less error prone. Changes have focused on making errors easier to identify

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