Archive for November, 2011

SAS 9.4 – Wahoo!

Nov
18

I have seen my first tech support track response that mentions SAS 9.4.

Wahoo the countdown begins!

SAS 9.4 is also mentioned once on the support.sas.com site:

  • http://support.sas.com/techsup/pcn/openvms93.html

 

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Want to know what replaced Xythos in SAS 9.2/9.3 – enter the jackrabbit

Nov
16

In SAS 9.1.x the WebDav technology SAS used was powered by an open source component called Xythos.

Xthyos provided the mechanism by which the SAS Web tools (WRS, Portal etc) could read and write to a database repository (Postgres, Oracle, Sql Server etc) to store the content (WRS (XML) reports).

In SAS 9.2 / 9.3, SAS re-engineered the entire platform to remove the Xythos component and deliver what is called the SAS Content Server.

If you look under the cover, you wil find that SAS have replaced Xythos with another open source component to provide the WebDav capability, this time Apache JackRabbit.

When you start up the Web server and checkout the logs and you wil see something along the lines of:

“2011-11-11 12:42:32,836 INFO  org.apache.jackrabbit.webdav.simple.SimpleWebdavServlet – WWW-Authenticate header = ‘Basic realm=”Jackrabbit Webdav Server”

 

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Adding WRS to Portal in SAS 9.2 / 9.3

Nov
02

Want to add Web Report Studio as a link in the SAS 9.2/9.3 Portal with single sign-on?

Add a Portal application using the following url:

http://<your server>:<your port>/SASWebReportStudio/logonFromPortal.do

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How to create multiple LSF users

Nov
02

By default when you install and configure LSF as part of SAS you get two users created lsfadmin and lsfuser.

Good SAS Admin practice is not use either of these accounts to schedule your production batch runs, but to create a new user for this specific task.

Of course the steps to creating new LSF users is buried in the middle of a raft of user and admin guides so most customers I deal with don;t bother.

Michael from Scorpio (he is Australian and drinking out of saucers at the moment ;-) has written a step by step blog that describes what you need to do to achieve this process over here:

Platform Suite for SAS – Dev/Test/Prod Tips 

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