topic Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327164#M271625 <P>What is your reason for wanting to share an in-memory SAS dataset on a standard SAS App server? This is exactly what SAS VA does. Is this a possibility for you as it would be a much more robust solution than SASFILE?&nbsp;</P> Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:13:54 GMT SASKiwi 2017-01-24T20:13:54Z How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327072#M271623 <P>Hello All,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I would like to make a SAS dataset available to all users can be loaded into server memory (RAM) for sharing. I would like to not have to restart the server if I can (as indicated in the PROC SERVER ALLOCATE function). Is this possible?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you.</P> Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:11:47 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327072#M271623 MattSan 2017-01-24T15:11:47Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327112#M271624 <P>How is your SAS set up? Do you use SAS/SHARE?</P> Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:06:11 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327112#M271624 Kurt_Bremser 2017-01-24T17:06:11Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327164#M271625 <P>What is your reason for wanting to share an in-memory SAS dataset on a standard SAS App server? This is exactly what SAS VA does. Is this a possibility for you as it would be a much more robust solution than SASFILE?&nbsp;</P> Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:13:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327164#M271625 SASKiwi 2017-01-24T20:13:54Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327304#M271626 <P>Hello, my team needs to access five readonly files on a regular basis and I thought that putting these files in memory would speed up I/O. We have quite a bit of RAM that is not being utilised on our server (128GB).</P> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:41:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327304#M271626 MattSan 2017-01-25T09:41:25Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327305#M271627 <P>I am not sure. How do I go about finding out if we have SAS/Share?</P> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:42:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327305#M271627 MattSan 2017-01-25T09:42:51Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327619#M271628 <P>The easiest way would be to create a RAM-based virtual disk, and copy the tables you want to accelerate there.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>This will appear to SAS as a normal disk, and you can use it and manage it as any other disk resource from SAS.</P> Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:18:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/327619#M271628 ChrisNZ 2017-01-26T02:18:42Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/328417#M271629 <P>This is exactly what I am looking for however I do not know how to implement this. Do you have any resources on how to implement this?</P> Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:14:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/328417#M271629 MattSan 2017-01-30T14:14:13Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/328420#M271630 <P>Thank you for your response, could you perhaps point me to resources that explain how to implement your idea?</P> Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:15:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/328420#M271630 MattSan 2017-01-30T14:15:51Z Re: How do you make a SASFILE available to all server users without restarting the server? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/331359#M271631 <P>Sorry, I was offline. Glad you found your answer in your<A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/General-SAS-Programming/How-do-you-persist-data-in-memory-RAM-between-datasteps-i-e/m-p/327615" target="_self"> other thread</A>.</P> Thu, 09 Feb 2017 22:31:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-do-you-make-a-SASFILE-available-to-all-server-users-without/m-p/331359#M271631 ChrisNZ 2017-02-09T22:31:19Z