Friday, December 30, 2016
Microsoft 7.1 Requirements
http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikmsofficeintsr/68008/PDF/default/sreq.pdf
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Product Version - Determining your SAS® 9.4 release and which products are in each revision
http://support.sas.com/kb/50/493.html
SAS 9.4 includes several major releases and revisions that contain new software products and functionality.
A revision is a subset of a major release. An example of a revision is 13w26, which indicates that this revision was made available in the year 2013 during week 26. With this particular revision, SAS Institute introduced SAS 9.4 (TS1M0).
You need to know your release or revision for use in the SAS® Deployment Wizard and other SAS installation components. To determine which release or revision you have, open your SAS software order email and look at the section of the email entitled Information for Tech Support Site number. The site number contains a field named Product. The value in that field contains your revision level.
For example, if the value for Product is SAS® 9.4 (TS1M0), Rev. 940_13w26, then your revision level is 13w26.
Another way to determine your revision is to navigate to the directory \SAS Software Depot\install_doc\your order-number\ and open the soi.html file. The revision number is contained in this file. So, if the order number is 123456, open the soi.html file that resides in \SAS Software Depot\install_doc\123456\. For example: Z:\SAS Software Depot\install_doc\123456\soi.html.
This is similar to the following: Z:\SAS Software Depot\install_doc\123456\soi.html. In the soi.html file, the revision number appears as follows:
Product: SAS 9.4 TS1M0, Rev. 940_13w26
For more details about the soi.html file, see the "SAS Order Information" section in the SAS® 9.4 Guide to Software Updates.
SAS 9.4 includes several major releases and revisions that contain new software products and functionality.
A revision is a subset of a major release. An example of a revision is 13w26, which indicates that this revision was made available in the year 2013 during week 26. With this particular revision, SAS Institute introduced SAS 9.4 (TS1M0).
You need to know your release or revision for use in the SAS® Deployment Wizard and other SAS installation components. To determine which release or revision you have, open your SAS software order email and look at the section of the email entitled Information for Tech Support Site number. The site number contains a field named Product. The value in that field contains your revision level.
For example, if the value for Product is SAS® 9.4 (TS1M0), Rev. 940_13w26, then your revision level is 13w26.
Another way to determine your revision is to navigate to the directory \SAS Software Depot\install_doc\your order-number\ and open the soi.html file. The revision number is contained in this file. So, if the order number is 123456, open the soi.html file that resides in \SAS Software Depot\install_doc\123456\. For example: Z:\SAS Software Depot\install_doc\123456\soi.html.
This is similar to the following: Z:\SAS Software Depot\install_doc\123456\soi.html. In the soi.html file, the revision number appears as follows:
Product: SAS 9.4 TS1M0, Rev. 940_13w26
For more details about the soi.html file, see the "SAS Order Information" section in the SAS® 9.4 Guide to Software Updates.
SAS® 9.4 Revision Numbers and Associated Documentation
Table of Contents
SAS 9.4 (TS1M0) Revisions
SAS 9.4 (TS1M1) Revisions
- Revision 13w51
- Revision 14w04
- Revision 14w07
- Revision 14w11
- Revision 14w14
- Revision 14w19
- Revision 14w23
- Revision 14w25
- Revision 14w28
SAS 9.4 (TS1M2) Revisions
- Revision 14w32
- Revision 14w36
- Revision 14w41
- Revision 14w47
- Revision 15w04
- Revision 15w08
- Revision 15w12
- Revision 15w16
- Revision 15w17
- Revision 15w20
- Revision 15w25
SAS 9.4 (TS1M3) Revisions
- Revision 15w29
- Revision 15w33
- Revision 15w38
- Revision 15w42
- Revision 15w47
- Revision 16w04
- Revision 16w08
- Revision 16w13
- Revision 16w17
- Revision 16w22
- Revision 16w26
- Revision 16w30
- Revision 16w37
- Revision 16w43
SAS 9.4 (TS1M4) Revisions
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Job - Hiring a SAS administrator? 12 questions to ask
http://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2013/04/10/hiring-a-sas-administrator-12-questions-to-ask/
I have been on both sides of the table during an interview to hire a SAS administrator. I’ve been hired as a SAS administrator, and I have hired SAS administrators. Today, I work with SAS customers to help them find the best software for their business needs. I get asked- a lot!- about how to find and to hire SAS administrators. How can you feel confident they know their stuff? Here is my personal list of interview questions.
Some of these questions can be answered from their resume, but if I’m doing a phone screen without the benefit of a resume, I’ll ask all of them. I have hired good SAS admins using this personal guidebook:
What SAS products and versions have you administered?
This question lets me know the breadth of their administration experience. Are they working with SAS metadata or not? The role of the SAS administrator became very important with SAS 9.
What operating system (OS) platforms have you used with SAS?
The more, the better! If I’m hiring for UNIX/LINUX and the candidate doesn’t have any experience outside of Windows, then I need to gauge how quickly they’ll pick it up. In this scenario, I’m going to usually prefer some that has UNIX/LINUX experience if they also have the SAS experience.
Which SAS products have you installed and configured?
I would also follow up this question with “Have you installed SAS Hot Fixes before”?
Do you have experience migrating content to new SAS versions?
Ask this question if necessary for your environment. If you are hiring to migrate from SAS Version 8 to SAS 9, ask if they have done that before.
How many SAS users have you supported? Business users? Power users?
This question gives me a general idea of how much work they had to do to support their users. If the company did not utilize metadata, what tasks did they perform in their administrator role? For business users, what is your role in pushing content out to them? For power users, how are you supporting your SAS developers?
Are you performing SAS product training for your SAS users?
If not, are they open to doing so? You have to decide if this is a requirement for your open position- not every administrator wants to be customer-facing or has the needed skills, even if the customers are internal. Some SAS administrators are more comfortable with server administration, while others prefer a more involved level of customer service to their users.
Are you doing any SAS development in you current role? Any experience with SAS development?
Have candidates designed any code, SAS Enterprise Guide projects, SAS Stored Processes or any other SAS content? From here, I recommend asking them to describe an example, such as "Walk me through the steps you took, from data management to analytics to reporting to sharing that information in the organization."
What level of support have you provided for your SAS users?
For example, did the candidate act as a first line of defense when users ran into problems? Do they work with their internal SAS user and SAS technical support where needed? Were they on call overnight, if that is a necessary part of the job requirements? How comfortable do they seem to be with troubleshooting a problem? Have candidates walk you through an example.
Describe the typical administrative tasks you perform each day.
The response to this question could be anything from kicking off jobs, restarting servers and backing up the environment to supporting users with coding questions. You should quickly get a sense for the type of daily tasks the candidate is used to performing.
Technically speaking….
I make sure I have candidates talk to me about the technical side of SAS administration, at least one story or explanation of how certain tasks are performed. Here are some questions to get them talking about their hands-on experience:
Do you have any other relevant experience?
Maybe the candidate has worked as a DBA. Maybe were an administrator for another software product. Maybe they’ve been a SAS user in another capacity. Get a sense for their technical savvy and their desire to learn something new. When I was very first hired to be a SAS administrator, I had never done it before- I had been a SAS programmer for a long time (more than 10 years), but had never been on the IT side of the house before. If I can learn it on the fly, I know there are others out there that can learn, too!
Don't forget to assess soft skills . . .
As I’m talking with the interviewee, I’m getting a sense of their technical ability as well as their interpersonal ability. Do they have the communication skills to explain something technically complex to a business user? Again, that might not be necessary for your environment. Add in questions that are relevant to your long-term vision of SAS and the roadmap to grow SAS. Will this person be a champion for SAS and for advanced analytics? Will this person help you go to the CIO and the CEO and explain why you need to hire more SAS users? Also, the most important of all, does this person have a quest to learn new things? If they do, they will help you troubleshoot even the most difficult of problems!
I hope these questions give you some good ideas of how to find a good SAS administrator. And if you’ve already found a good SAS administrator, go to them and say Thank You! They do so much for SAS and for your SAS users. For those of you that want to learn how to be a SAS administrator, hopefully this post gave you a good place to start. If you are looking to expand your knowledge of SAS administration, I recommend this training course: SAS Platform Administration: Fast Track.
I hope these questions give you some good ideas for finding a good SAS administrator. Please share some of your favorite interview questions!
I have been on both sides of the table during an interview to hire a SAS administrator. I’ve been hired as a SAS administrator, and I have hired SAS administrators. Today, I work with SAS customers to help them find the best software for their business needs. I get asked- a lot!- about how to find and to hire SAS administrators. How can you feel confident they know their stuff? Here is my personal list of interview questions.
Some of these questions can be answered from their resume, but if I’m doing a phone screen without the benefit of a resume, I’ll ask all of them. I have hired good SAS admins using this personal guidebook:
What SAS products and versions have you administered?
This question lets me know the breadth of their administration experience. Are they working with SAS metadata or not? The role of the SAS administrator became very important with SAS 9.
What operating system (OS) platforms have you used with SAS?
The more, the better! If I’m hiring for UNIX/LINUX and the candidate doesn’t have any experience outside of Windows, then I need to gauge how quickly they’ll pick it up. In this scenario, I’m going to usually prefer some that has UNIX/LINUX experience if they also have the SAS experience.
Which SAS products have you installed and configured?
I would also follow up this question with “Have you installed SAS Hot Fixes before”?
Do you have experience migrating content to new SAS versions?
Ask this question if necessary for your environment. If you are hiring to migrate from SAS Version 8 to SAS 9, ask if they have done that before.
How many SAS users have you supported? Business users? Power users?
This question gives me a general idea of how much work they had to do to support their users. If the company did not utilize metadata, what tasks did they perform in their administrator role? For business users, what is your role in pushing content out to them? For power users, how are you supporting your SAS developers?
Are you performing SAS product training for your SAS users?
If not, are they open to doing so? You have to decide if this is a requirement for your open position- not every administrator wants to be customer-facing or has the needed skills, even if the customers are internal. Some SAS administrators are more comfortable with server administration, while others prefer a more involved level of customer service to their users.
Are you doing any SAS development in you current role? Any experience with SAS development?
Have candidates designed any code, SAS Enterprise Guide projects, SAS Stored Processes or any other SAS content? From here, I recommend asking them to describe an example, such as "Walk me through the steps you took, from data management to analytics to reporting to sharing that information in the organization."
What level of support have you provided for your SAS users?
For example, did the candidate act as a first line of defense when users ran into problems? Do they work with their internal SAS user and SAS technical support where needed? Were they on call overnight, if that is a necessary part of the job requirements? How comfortable do they seem to be with troubleshooting a problem? Have candidates walk you through an example.
Describe the typical administrative tasks you perform each day.
The response to this question could be anything from kicking off jobs, restarting servers and backing up the environment to supporting users with coding questions. You should quickly get a sense for the type of daily tasks the candidate is used to performing.
Technically speaking….
I make sure I have candidates talk to me about the technical side of SAS administration, at least one story or explanation of how certain tasks are performed. Here are some questions to get them talking about their hands-on experience:
- “Describe to me how I would register a new table in SAS metadata”
- “Describe to me how I would add a new user and what permissions I can give that user”
- “What would you recommend I do for backing up my SAS environment?”
- “What does SAS do with authentication domains?”
- “How do you create a BASE engine library?”
- “Can you prevent a user from or ?”
- “What is an object spawner?”
Do you have any other relevant experience?
Maybe the candidate has worked as a DBA. Maybe were an administrator for another software product. Maybe they’ve been a SAS user in another capacity. Get a sense for their technical savvy and their desire to learn something new. When I was very first hired to be a SAS administrator, I had never done it before- I had been a SAS programmer for a long time (more than 10 years), but had never been on the IT side of the house before. If I can learn it on the fly, I know there are others out there that can learn, too!
Don't forget to assess soft skills . . .
As I’m talking with the interviewee, I’m getting a sense of their technical ability as well as their interpersonal ability. Do they have the communication skills to explain something technically complex to a business user? Again, that might not be necessary for your environment. Add in questions that are relevant to your long-term vision of SAS and the roadmap to grow SAS. Will this person be a champion for SAS and for advanced analytics? Will this person help you go to the CIO and the CEO and explain why you need to hire more SAS users? Also, the most important of all, does this person have a quest to learn new things? If they do, they will help you troubleshoot even the most difficult of problems!
I hope these questions give you some good ideas of how to find a good SAS administrator. And if you’ve already found a good SAS administrator, go to them and say Thank You! They do so much for SAS and for your SAS users. For those of you that want to learn how to be a SAS administrator, hopefully this post gave you a good place to start. If you are looking to expand your knowledge of SAS administration, I recommend this training course: SAS Platform Administration: Fast Track.
I hope these questions give you some good ideas for finding a good SAS administrator. Please share some of your favorite interview questions!
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
License - Update PC SAS license on multiple desktop computers
Update PC
SAS license on multiple desktop computers
- Update the PC SAS license on one of your desktop in the prescribed way. Usually this is using the renew.exe program. Once this is complete your one pc should be updated.
- Below are the three files that get updated
when a license file is applied. These are the files you'll need to copy from
the computer you updated today during our session to the other computers you
need to update.
C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\core\sashelp\CORE.sas7bCATC:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\core\sasinst\setinit.sssC:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\core\sasinst\sid.txt
- Once these files are copied over to the other computers, you do not need to run the "renew sas software" tool at all. So, no further steps are required on the client machine to renew the license once the above files have been copied to each computer.
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