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Disable the Option to Store Credentials in SAS Enterprise Guide Profiles

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Fred Janssen

from SAS® 9.2 Intelligence Platform Desktop Application Administration Guide at support.sas.com:

When you create a connection profile, the Connection Profile Wizard provides, by default, a check box named Save user ID and password in this profile. If a user selects this check box, then the user’s ID and password are stored in the user’s connection profile on the local file system. Saving the ID and password in the profile allows users to reconnect in the future without entering these values again.

Follow these steps to remove the Save user ID and password in this profile check box from the Connection Profile Wizard and require the manual entry of credentials:

On the host of the SAS Metadata Server, open in a text editor the file omaconfig.xml.
Change the value of the option SASSEC_LOCAL_PW_SAVE from 1 (or Y or T) to 0 (or N or F).
Save and close the file.
Restart the SAS Metadata Server as directed in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.

After you change the setting for this option and restart the metadata server, each client uses the previous setting for its first connection. The client then discovers the revised setting and conforms to that revised setting for subsequent connections.

If you change the setting to disallow saved credentials, and credentials are already present in a user’s connection profile, those credentials must be manually removed.

Categories: Business Intelligence, Software | Tags: administration, Enterprise Guide, password, profile, SAS

Enterprise Guide 4.1 Die Date

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Fred Janssen

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from support.sas.com:

The original SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 expiration date is December 1st of this year. SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 customers who have not applied the SAS Enterprise Guide hot fix 41EG09wn or later will be affected. The workaround is to download and apply the latest hot fix:

http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/ent_guide41.html

SAS Enterprise Guide die dates and extensions are documented in the SAS Note 33359:

http://support.sas.com/kb/33/359.html

Categories: Business Intelligence, Software, Statistics | Tags: Enterprise Guide, expiration, hot fix, SAS

Hot Fix Release A53007 for Enterprise Guide 4.22 Released

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Fred Janssen

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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 running a project after migration in SAS Enterprise Guide

You can obtain more details at the SAS Enterprise Guide 4.22 Hot Fix Downloads page at http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/A53.html#A53007.

Categories: Business Intelligence, Software, Statistics | Tags: Enterprise Guide, hot fix, project, SAS, stored process

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

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Fred Janssen

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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 Enterprise Guide has encountered a problem. We recommend that you save your work and restart SAS Enterprise Guide.

I submitted a ticket to SAS Tech Support, and for SAS, it took a relatively long time to get resolved. Tech Support had to forward the issue on to the Development Team, who determined that the hot fix (and A53003 before it) relied on a patched version of the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime. The patched version of the runtime was used because it fixed a security hole in ATL (Active Template Library).

Tech Support sent me the link for the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en), and when I applied the update to my system, the Create Format task worked fine.

Categories: Business Intelligence, Software, Statistics | Tags: Enterprise Guide, format, hot fix, SAS, Visual C++

Report Events in the SAS Key User Action Log

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Fred Janssen

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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:
1. Assign a libref to an XML file that contains log data, and specify the XML engine. In the following example, MyFile.xml is a copy of a Key User Action Log file:
  
  libname myxml xml ’C:\My Files\XML\MyFile.xml’;
2. Use the SAS data sets procedure to import the XML file into a SAS data set.
  Here is an example:
  
  proc data sets library=myxml;
  
  This code creates a data set named EVENT in the MYXML library.
  For more information, see SAS online Help and documentation.
In SAS Information Map Studio, create an information map based on the data set that you created in the preceding step. For the information map, you might want to provide the ability to filter based on the event code (<code> tag), the user name (<user> tag), the report name (<report> tag), or the date (<date> tag). For information about using SAS Information Map Studio, see the product Help.
3 In SAS Web Report Studio, define a report based on the information map that you created in the previous step. You can define the report to be refreshed manually, and then schedule the report to run at regular intervals.

Categories: Business Intelligence, Software, Web | Tags: information map, key user action log, SAS, Web Report Studio, xml

Sending SAS Enterprise Guide Data to Microsoft Excel

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Fred Janssen

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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 Excel. A user can export their data to Excel, export to Excel as a step in a project, or they can right-click on a data set and select Send To –> Microsoft Excel. The latter is a convenient feature that many users are comfortable with, but in Enterprise Guide 4.1, your results might not be what you expect.

One data set that we were working with included a date variable which was stored as a DATE9. format. A user complained that every time she exported the data it ended up in DATETIME format, and all of the zeroes from the time complicated her project. I tried to replicate her problem many times by exporting the same data set into Excel and I ended up with DATE9. every time. I finally asked her to send screen shots of what she was doing, and noticed what she called “export” was actually using “Send To –> Microsoft Excel”. I explained that to get the results she wanted, she needed to use the “real” export technique. After I solved this problem, I browsed to support.sas.com and sure enough, SAS had already identified this issue in Microsoft Excel might not maintain date formats in SAS Enterprise Guide. Apparently this issue is fixed in Enterprise Guide 4.2 but I have not tested it yet.

Categories: Business Intelligence, Data, Software, Statistics | Tags: Enterprise Guide, Excel, Microsoft Jet Engine, SAS

New Features to be Included in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Fred Janssen

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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 the next version (4.3) of Enterprise Guide, which is scheduled to be available this summer. Below are some of the features that were mentioned:

context sensitive keyword completion (syntax suggestion)
relative file addressing
code reverse engineering (see what old code is doing)
an autoexec process flow for projects (runs automatically when project is opened)
code analyzer (reads a program and turns it into a process flow)

I also had the opportunity to preview some of the new features in the upcoming version of Web Report Studio (4.3). SAS is expanding drag and drop capabilities, which makes creation of report even easier. The biggest news though is the ability to use more than one data source in a report section!

Categories: Business Intelligence, Software, Statistics, Technology | Tags: Enterprise Guide, SAS, Web Report Studio

SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 Hotfix 41EG14 Available

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Fred Janssen

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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®

Enterprise Guide 4.1 Hot Fix 41EG14 (167)

Categories: Business Intelligence, Data, Downloads, Software, Statistics | Tags: Enterprise Guide, hot fix, SAS

Upgrading to SAS 9.2: SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Fred Janssen

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from support.sas.com…

The following considerations apply to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 customers who have used SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 or earlier releases.

Support for SAS Enterprise Guide repositories has been discontinued; all metadata must be stored in a SAS Metadata Repository.
Servers are no longer administered through SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer, and must now be administered using SAS Management Console. For information about administering servers, see the online Help for SAS Management Console.
Users and user groups are no longer administered through SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer, and must now be administered using SAS Management Console. For information about administering users, see the online Help for SAS Management Console.
The project format has changed from earlier releases. To change the format, you must either open each project in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 or use the Migration Wizard for SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. You must also use the migration wizard to import the metadata changes that occurred during the BI migration from SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.2. For more information, see "Using the Migration Wizard" in Administering SAS Enterprise Guide.
Tasks are no longer enabled or disabled for user groups, so any task assignments for SAS Enterprise Guide users are not maintained. Any restrictions on SAS Enterprise Guide tasks must be made through roles, and administered through SAS Management Console. For information about using roles in SAS Enterprise Guide, see "Administering Role-Based Settings" in Administering SAS Enterprise Guide and the online Help for SAS Management Console.

Categories: Business Intelligence, Software, Statistics | Tags: Enterprise Guide, SAS

Add Leading Zeroes to SAS Data

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Fred Janssen

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You probably have many SAS data sets that you regularly work with where numbers are stored as text for formatting purposes. A great example is the social security number, and many other customer, product, or invoice numbers are formatted similarly. They frequently utilize leading zeros in their storage and display. You probably also frequently receive data from colleagues where the same variable is formatted as a numeric value missing the leading zeros. The join that you were going to do with your data and the data received from the colleague just won’t work. Here is a little SAS code that can turn your colleague’s data into a match for yours, and I’ll use social security number (SSN) in this example:

data DatasetName ;
set InputDataset ;
length ssn_char $9.	/* New Character var for SSN */
ssn_char = put(ssn,z9.) ;	/* Put the Numeric SSN with the Z9. format */
drop ssn ;	/* Housecleaning to drop the numeric SSN */
rename ssn_char = ssn ;	/* Renamed Char SSN to make our Join easier */
run ;

By creating a new Character variable of SSN, I can simply put the Numeric SSN with Z9. format into the variable.

The format Z9. states the variable should be 9-bytes, and for each byte less than 9, put a leading zero in front of the var.

No strip or trim is necessary either.

I used this in the past with a transaction number I was creating (numeric) and later wanted to display it in a title with leading zeros [Example: had 123 as the value, put it with a Z10. and the display in the title was 0000000123].

Thanks to Paula for showing me this trick!

Categories: Business Intelligence, Data, Software, Statistics | Tags: SAS

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Disable the Option to Store Credentials in SAS Enterprise Guide Profiles

Enterprise Guide 4.1 Die Date

Hot Fix Release A53007 for Enterprise Guide 4.22 Released

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

Report Events in the SAS Key User Action Log

Sending SAS Enterprise Guide Data to Microsoft Excel

New Features to be Included in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 Hotfix 41EG14 Available

Upgrading to SAS 9.2: SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2

Add Leading Zeroes to SAS Data

Thanks to Paula for showing me this trick!

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