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Promoting SAS Objects from SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2 to SAS 9.3
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.
Peek-a-boo – I can see lots of SAS 9.3 doco for you
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………
SAS 9.3 – Released 12 July 2011?
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.
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And Michelle in sunny Brisbane has heard that dates as well, anybody else?
SAS BI Dashboards 4.3 – M2 patch set is out
Well after a day trying to use the SAS 9.2/4.3 BI Dashboards I think applying the M2 patch set that has just been released is mandatory!
SAS Global Forum confused me on the SAS roadmap – James Taylor explains it well
When I was in vegas for the SAS Global Forum earlier this year, I have to admit I came away confused on where SAS was going over the next few years.
The kick off session had a few good insights into some new feature functions and the theme of Big Data and Social Media came through strongly.
But how SAS 9.3, 9.4, 10.x was going to play out over the next few years, how SAS was going to compete with the IBM Juggernaut that is steamrolling with SPSS and its Analytics Consulting into a longtime SAS only space, what the true plan for Mobile capability is, what the plan for being “in the cloud” is, all was far from clear.
All these things were very vague. And it got worse when I asked individual’s from SAS through-out the week.
Now this isn’t unusual from my point of view, as SAS has always been a little different to most vendors in that it seems to prefer to deliver products, rather than marketing hype. Having said that some understanding of the planned direction is always good, at least to understand there is a plan.
I have been following the tweets and blogs of James Taylor for a little while and in March 2011 he blogged a series that outlined his understanding of the SAS product portfolio and roadmaps based on attending the SAS Inside Intelligence 2011 – Executive Viewpoint analysts sessions.
His blog posts are here and highly recommended if you want a view on where SAS is going.
- SAS Inside Intelligence 2011 – Executive Viewpoioint
- SAS Sales and Marketing Overview
- SAS Vertical Strategy
- SAS product portfolio and roadmaps
SAS 9.1 > SAS 9.3 making it easy
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.
Putting back tabs in SAS WRS 4.3
In SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, users can set an option that will display navigational tabs for report sections, similar to the tabs that appeared in version 3.1.
To set this property, make the following changes to the SAS Web Report Studio properties in SAS® Management Console.
- On the Plug-ins tab, select Application Management ► Configuration Manager ► Web Report Studio 4.3.
- Right-click and select Properties to open the Web Report Studio 4.3 Properties dialog box.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Click Add to open the Define New Property dialog box.
For the Property Name, enter wrs.sections.tabs
For the Property Value, enter true. - Click OK twice to exit both dialog boxes and save the changes.
- Restart your Web application server.
When this property is set to true, sections can be accessed via tabs and via the drop-down menu in the Table of Contents pane on the left.
SAS 9.3 to be released in July 2011 (maybe ;-)
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)
Integrating Enterprise Miner and SAS Metadata / Enterprise Guide created datasets
When you us SAS Enterprise Miner 6.2 you need to access data to perform the modeling tasks (DOH
When adding data sources to your EM project you can either add data from a SAS Table or from the Metadata Repository.
If you add it from a SAS Table, then SAS will display all the libnames defined in the autoexec.sas.
If you access the tables via metadata then SAS wil display the metadata libnames, which in an managed environment is our recomended option.
The trick is of course the datasets that are being accessed have probably been created by a modeler using Enterprise Guide. And when the modeler creates them via EG they are not automatically registered in metadata. So therefore they are not automatically available in Enterprise Miner.
Options I can think of:
- Make the modelers use DI Studio as it automatically registers the tables
- Give the modelers access to SAS Management Console and rights to register metadata
- Use the EG addin that lest users register metadata
- Create the libnames in the Autoexec, SAS will automatically display all tables that are present in that directory.
I gotta say im not loving any of those options!
Hit me if you can think of any I have missed.
====Update=====
Chris posted a comment to remind me that the ability to update SAS Metadata is now base functionality in SAS 9.2 / EG 4.3 (Tools->Update Library Metadata). Worked a treat, problem solved! (thanks Chris)
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