SAS 9.1.3 Client Metadata Profile Paths
I have been doing an install of SAS 9.1.3 clients on a a Citrix server (yes I know it is not supported) and all worked fine with Enterprise Guide etc but all the Java clients wouldn’t run.
Everytime they started up they couldn’t find some path and just gave an error saying path could not be found.
We troubled shooted it to the fact that we had changed the Citrix server layout from the last server and had used different drive mappings. As part of this we had moved where the SAS Client Metadata Profile settings (.swa files) were stored.
So when SAS Data Integration Studio, Management Console etc started they looked for the .swa files in the location defined on the previous Citrix server (as the Citirix profile travels with the user across servers).
The fix was to edit the app.smc file in the users directory (for us C:\Documents and Settings\~user). In that file is a line:
WorkspacePath=C:\\Documents and Settings\\~user\\Workspaces
Which defines where the Metadata profile files (.swa) are stored.
the other options (thanks SAS tech Support) is to put the following option on the clients .ini file (i.e C:\Program Files\SAS\SASManagementConsole\9.1\sasmc.ini):
-Duser.home=C:\SAS
This will then make all users access the .swa files under a workspace dir under this path. But of course they all access the same ones, so lock them down so they can’t be changed.
Trick for young players on that one, make sure it is after the “-Dsas.app.class.dirs=” option as if you add it at the end it gets ignored for some reason.
And of course do it for each of the SAS clients.
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