Posted by Shane Gibson on October 21, 2009
Setting up SAS Share to enable you to Import and Export ABM models is one of those things that always seems to be a bit tricky to get working.
I found a public doc on the old ABC Tech support site here, that explains the steps. I have also cut and paste the content below in case the doc disappears.
One thing to note is that if you have two SAS servers wanting to talk via this SAS Share link (i.e one with SAS ABM and the other with SAS DI or EG etc) you need to make sure the SAS Share names are identical on both servers or it wont work!
Oh and don’t forget that you need SAS Share OLEDB client on every PC that wants to export/import. You can install this from the SAS ABM Client install page on your ABM Webserver.
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Posted by Shane Gibson on July 31, 2008
Carrying on from my earlier post, there is an interesting post by the founder of DATAllegro on his blog here, stating that now Microsoft have purchased DATAllegro they will be migrating their appliance from Ingres/Linux to SQL Server/Windows.
Over on the Microsoft BI Blog there is a post lauding how they have rave reviews for DATAllegro warehouses with data volumes over 200+ TB and amasing query response times.
So what will the move to Widows and SQL Server bring?
What will the migration path be like?
How will customers feel about the requirement to constantly apply windows patches to their “appliance”?
How many 200TB SQL Server/Windowswrehouse sites are out there at the moment?
Given the move from one technology stack to another is always fraught with difficult (just think SAS FM, SPM and ABM) then I would hate to be a DATAllegro customer with a 200TB warehouse at the moment.
