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Hot Fix Release A53007 for Enterprise Guide 4.22 Released

SAS released Hot Fix A53007 for Enterprise Guide 4.22 on June 29, 2010.  This Hot Fix applies to 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows.  The Hot Fix address two issues, including: Issue 38357 – SAS stored process might fail to run when the language is set to Norwegian Issue 40130 – Errors might occur [...]

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An Issue Creating a Format in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 after Installation of Hot Fix A53005

I had been using SAS Enterprise Guide 4.22 for months without any crashes, but in May I installed the SAS Hot Fix A53005 primarily because it was available.  After installation of the Hot Fix, whenever I attempted to run the Create Format task, even in a brand new project, I received the following error: SAS [...]

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Report Events in the SAS Key User Action Log

from the SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platform Web Application Administration Guide, Third Edition, located at: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biwaag/63536/PDF/default/biwaag.pdf The information in the Key User Action Log can be imported into SAS data sets and presented in reports. To report the data, follow these steps: Import the WebReportStudio_KeyActions.log data into a SAS data set. Here are the main steps: [...]

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Undo an Action in Microsoft Excel with the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office Installed

Even though we have Maintenance Release 2 installed on our SAS clients, we will still get undo problems in Excel.  Here is one more step that needs to be performed: The issue described in SAS Note 36601: Cannot undo changes in Microsoft Excel when the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office is installed can be fixed [...]

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SAS Enterprise Guide Version Compatibility

from Chris Hemendinger, senior software manager in SAS R&D and author of The SAS Dummy Supported Versions and Combinations: You can use EG 4.1 with local SAS 9.2 (no metadata server).  Everything local on your Windows machine; it should just work. You can have both EG 4.1 and EG 4.2 on your local machine, along [...]

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Sending SAS Enterprise Guide Data to Microsoft Excel

A strong point of SAS Enterprise Guide is that it interacts seamlessly with many data types using the Microsoft Jet Engine (Excel .xls, Access .mdb, dBase .dbf, Lotus.wk?, Paradox .db, and text files .txt .csv etc).  To provide even more flexibility, there are also a few different ways in Enterprise Guide to output data to [...]

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New Features to be Included in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

I was one of the unfortunate ones who was unable to attend the SAS Global Forum in Seattle last week.  Thanks to discussion forums, blogs, and Twitter, I was able to keep up with a lot that was going on.  I was particularly interested in some of the new features that will be available in [...]

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SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 Hotfix 41EG14 Available

SAS recently released Hotfix 41EG14 for Enterprise Guide 4.1.  The hotfix resolves issues identified in: Problem Note 39149: The SAS Enterprise Guide editor’s width of caret position panel within the status bar does not accommodate for large row and column number schemes Problem Note 38003: Unable to edit existing parameter in SAS® Enterprise Guide®

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Configure a Group Content Administrator in the SAS Information Delivery Portal

I have had to add Group Content Administrators to my SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platform a few times now, and it didn’t work as smoothly the last time due to my inability to read ALL of the steps and accompanying notes.  The process of configuring a Group Content Administrator in the Information Delivery Portal is well [...]

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Useful Vim Commands for SAS Administrators on UNIX

After a successful installation of SAS Enterprise BI Server on my Sun Servers, a certain amount of time is spent modifying configuration files and backup scripts, as well as browsing log files.  I use the vi editor to accomplish the editing.  I used used vi a lot back when all of my GIS work was [...]

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