SAS 9.3

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 custom content to SASPortal in SAS 9.2 & 9.3

Oct
27

 

Web Application Custom Content

If you wish to add custom content into SAS web applications, you may do so by placing your custom content into the appropriate custom content directory structure for the given application, and then running the SAS Deployment Manager to rebuild web applications. The custom content root directory for a given web application is

/data/SASCONFIG/Lev1/Web/Common/Server Name/Application Name/CustomContent

For example,

/data/SASCONFIG/Lev1/Web/Common/SASServer1/SASWebReportStudio4.2/CustomContent

Within that directory, there are subdirectories (for example, ears or wars) corresponding to specific archive types (ear and war files, respectively). Under the archive type directories, there are subdirectories for each specific archive—these are the root directories for each archive within the application. Custom content should be placed in the archive’s directory tree corresponding to where the content should appear within the archive.

For example, to add the ear_addon.xml file into the addons directory in the sas.webreportstudio ear file, create the

…/CustomContent/ears/sas.webreportstudio/addons

directory, and place ear_addon.xml in it. Our process knows which war files are contained within ear files, so if you want to add war_addon.jar into the WEB-INF/lib directory in the sas.webreportstudio war file within the sas.webreportstudio ear file, then create

…/CustomContent/wars/sas.webreportstudio/WEB-INF/lib

directory, and place war_addon.jar in it.

Once all your custom content is ready to be consumed, run the SAS Deployment Manager and choose to rebuild web applications. Doing so will rebuild the web applications, inserting the custom content into the archives under the appropriate paths. Note that if custom content has the same path and name of content normally included in the archive, then the custom content takes precedence.

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SAS 9.3 is here – yeah baby!

Jul
13

http://www.sas.com/software/sas9/

Let the learning begin ;-)

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Promoting SAS Objects from SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2 to SAS 9.3

Jul
12

Good article on the SAS support.sas.com:

Special Considerations for Promoting Content to SAS 9.3 from an Earlier SAS Version          

Outlining what can be promoted from SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2 to SAS 9.3 plus a few gotcha’s.

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Peek-a-boo – I can see lots of SAS 9.3 doco for you

Jul
12

If you search on 9.3 in the SAS support.sas.com site, you will see a raft of SAS 9.3 doco has just been published (or probably unhidden).

Dur da dur da dur da (tune to jaws)

SAS 9.3 is almost here………

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SAS 9.3 – Released 12 July 2011?

Jul
07

Just had a comment added from Gady Kotler to one of my blog posts stating:

“In a SAS confernece held last week in Israel Mark Torr has officialy approved SAS 9.3 will be relaesed on July,12 this year”

So if its true the count down is almost there.

+++++++++++++

And Michelle in sunny Brisbane has heard that dates as well, anybody else?

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SAS 9.1 > SAS 9.3 making it easy

Jun
04
Fiona McNeill just posted a comment on my blog post about my guess that SAS 9.3 will play peekaboo just as we are in the middle of finishing the SAS 9.2 install.

She commented

“Just to clarify, you will be able to go from SAS 9.1.3 directly to SAS 9.3 – without having to do the interim release installation”

I had heard mentioned that you would be able to jump across from 9.1 to 9.3 and miss out the 9.2 upgrade, but great to have it officially confirmed!  Its amazing how many times I had been asked this by customers.

Thanks Fiona.

 

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SAS 9.3 to be released in July 2011 (maybe ;-)

Jun
02

Well this may just be a rumor but at the excellent SAS Users Group of New Zealand (SUNZ) quarterly meeting (yes I did present ;-) it was mentioned that SAS 9.3 maybe released in July of this year.

No details on whether it will just be foundation, or foundation and platform components.  Or whether it will be all operating systems or just a subset.

At SAS Global Forum in Vegas this year it was mooted (cool word that) that Q3 was the likely release date, so I assumed that meant September.  But July is still Q3 and SAS 9.3 did seem pretty much ready at the demo stands.

So we will know in either 29 days or 59 days (remember i’m based in sunny NZ, we see the sun first-ish)

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SAS 9.3, whats a bet its early!

May
29

Been flat out for the last few weeks on various SAS Projects, and not many on the SaasInct side unfortunately.

One of the projects is getting prepared for a major upgrade to SAS 9.2 from SAS 9.1.

Looks like the SAS 9.2 install will be going ahead June or July, and then into migration.

Whats a bet that SAS announce SAS 9.3 in July!

Sods law they do.  Although it always pays to wait for M1 at least and a few other customers to iron out the migration issues, so wont make a difference to this project.

 

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SAS Licensing/Bundling Changes, 9.3 and others

Apr
08

There seems to be a lot of movement in the the way SAS are bundling and licensing the multitude of SAS solutions and products at the moment.

Here are the changes I think I heard before and during the SAS Global Forum (as always please check with your SAS Account team to confirm the details)

  • SAS Data Integration Server now includes the ability to use Dataflux for profiling only (used to have to have eDI to use any dataflux)
  • SAS eDI Server 9.3 will move to bundling Dataflux Data Management studio rather than the dfPower studio that is bundles in 9.2.
  • SAS has released a AMO only bundle (SAS® Office Analytics for Midsize Business), enabling you to use AMO without needing to license the Business Intelligence server (BI Server) and it even bundles Enterprise Guide and STAT in it as well!
  • Some functions from SAS Graph/ODS are being bundled with SAS Foundation (Base) without the need to license SAS Graph
  • JMP is bundled with Enterprise Miner (Not sure if its only with 9.3 or all versions)

Those are the ones I can remember hearing or reading about, if I find anymore Ill update the post and of course if you know of any changes comment away!

 

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