I opened a track with SAS Support. I will update you on its conclusion. ... View more

Flow MF will email when it ends but the subflow SF flow embedded in it will not. The assumption was that it would. And yes it was what we were expecting. This may however prove to be wishful thinking. If this behaviour is by design I would have hoped to find some hint in the docs. Haven't found it sofar. ... View more

That error is certainly not because you failed to connect to the metadata server (the message would be different and the returncode would be 😎 so it seems like there is some downstream resource the export is trying to connect to. A special case that may explain the rc=0 you see. Also one I may not be able to help with. I do know we have situations where the reverse is happening: ExportPackage fails but no error message in the logs. Usually when a flow is corrupted (which happens all too often). But that won't help you either. Just to confirm ImportPackage and ExportPackage are somewhat problematic. ... View more

Working on the same right now! So I tested the following: run the ImportPackage command trying to import some objects to a floder for which  I have no metadata permissions at all. This obviously fails. And also I get a return code 4 (warnings, it's apparently not considered an error). Please elaborate on your actions as mine do not confirm your findings.   Edit: I am on Linux, RHEL8. and SAS 9.4M8.   Regards, - Jan. ... View more

Truly amazing!   It proves once again it's never a question if something can be done in SAS but how.   I once wrote an AF app for a slotmachine as an exercise and to get used to the new HP Apollo. Send it in in response to a call for games at SUGI in New York.    Before the opening I was asked to meet Dr. Goodnight. He told me he would demo it in the opening session. He did. And again the next year in Dallas. And it became part of SAS/Assist. A little code can go a long way! But nothing like this FPS. Or Tetris. ... View more

Note:- all password have been entered and system accepted without any error   Be aware that the deployment wizard does not verify outbound credentials. Only those that can be verified by the metadata server (like sasadm, sassrv, ... passwords) will be. Others, typically the ones you have to type in twice, are only verified upon actual use. So it is very possible you entered the wrong password for SharedServices (twice) and the wizard being happy initially with that while eventually failing when accessing the database using that password.   Hope this helps, - Jan. ... View more

Hi Margaret, can you please elaborate on the kind of issues we may expect? This update is looming for us and people get nervous from this type of announcements. We cannot hold off this update indefinitely. After some time higher powers will simply push a new RHEL release to our hosts. Regards Jan ... View more

This may or may not affect your challenge, but Gemfire is no longer used in 9.4M8. It was replaced by Geode. See https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/SAS-9-4-M8-is-now-available/td-p/856447   Cheers Jan. ... View more

If you precede every proc print with a "ods region;" statement you can get that. But I couldn't explain that from the theory 😉   ods pdf file="/tmp/test.pdf" startpage=never; ods layout gridded rows=2 columns=1; ods region style=[backgroundcolor=#BDC3C7 font_size=20]; ods pdf text="Test header" ; ods region ; proc print data=sashelp.class; run; ods region ; proc print data=sashelp.class; run; ods region ; proc print data=sashelp.class; run; ods region ; proc print data=sashelp.class; run; ods region ; proc print data=sashelp.class; run; ods region ; proc print data=sashelp.class; run; ods region ; proc print data=sashelp.class; run; ods layout end; ... View more

Yeah I 100% support the use of an informat. I completely overlooked the obvious solution in my earlier reply. ... View more

In my 35 years of datastep programming I never considered an infile option for alternative missing characters. But now I see a need for that. But there is none.   Why would you have two sets of code? You can use your code for dataset TWO for ONE as well. Much easier. I gues the computing overhead would be minimal and not outweigh the ease of having one piece of code. and no need for going over your data twice.   data one_two; length id 8 a_char $12 a 8; input id a_char $; drop a_char; if a_char = '*' then a = .; else a = input(a_char, best12.); datalines; ... run; ... View more

Hi,   Most environment settings are done in the casconfig_usermods.lua file. I would expect that for umask as well. For Linux that file is in /opt/sas/viya/config/etc/cas/default.   Hope this helps, - Jan. ... View more