Category Archives: SAS Configuration

SAS and IWA: Two Hops

By Paul Homes | Published: 23 January 2012

In an earlier post I mentioned that I would jot down a few notes about my experiences with SAS® software and Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). This is the first of these posts and concerns the initial configuration. Chances are, if you knew you wanted to use IWA before you installed SAS, then it would have [...]

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Dynamic Logging Reconfiguration in SAS® 9.3

By Paul Homes | Published: 10 January 2012

One of the exciting new features in SAS 9.3 (well for me anyway) is the ability to replace or modify the logging configuration on-the-fly for a running server without needing to restart it. Previously in SAS 9.2 you could dynamically change the levels for loggers on servers (via SAS Management Console Server Manager Loggers tabs) [...]

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SAS and IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) Notes

By Paul Homes | Published: 31 December 2011

Over the past year I have worked on a number of SAS® 9.2 platform installations helping to get Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) working nicely for single sign-on (SSO) for the SAS platform. Whilst it’s relatively easy to turn IWA on, it can get a bit trickier when you try to go a bit further than [...]

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SAS Restricted Options on UNIX

By Paul Homes | Published: 16 July 2011

In a tweet by Gordon Cox last month, I was reminded of the restricted options facility available with SAS® software on UNIX platforms. This is capability where an administrator can set mandatory SAS system options at multiple levels of granularity: globally, per-group, and/or per-user. The reason for this post is that I don’t look at [...]

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NOXCMD: NO eXternal CoMmanDs!

By Paul Homes | Published: 18 June 2011

SAS® platform administrators can get quite familiar with the SAS NOXCMD option, usually when someone asks why their programs that used to work (in a different SAS version or execution environment) are now failing. Perhaps the programs ran ok with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 using a SAS 9.1.3 server but now fail with SAS Enterprise [...]