topic Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton in Administration and Deployment

How to change logical workspace server location

akaashuu — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:10:03 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am new to SAS Administration and I am learning as I go.

I have installed 9.4 office analytics one server install type. Metadata and Workspace on one VM.

I also planning to Promote some metadata from 9.3 as well.

for now my question is :

how to find the default locaiton of the workspace server where it is pysically using the space when users run thier queries thru SAS EG etc.,?

second how can I change the locaiton to a different dedicated drive on the server?

thoughts?

Appreaciate your help.

Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton

akaashuu — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:15:31 GMT

to add to my question,

I would like to change the defualt location SASWORKLOCATION to another driver rather than temp space on the install locaiton.

Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton

akaashuu — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:50:25 GMT

I found it configuring this file sasv9.cfg work location did the trick.

Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton

SASKiwi — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:11:50 GMT

In that case please mark your question as answered to save us time looking at posts that are not flagged as answered.

Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 07:42:50 GMT

@akaashuu wrote:

I found it configuring this file sasv9.cfg work location did the trick.

DO NOT edit the sasv9.cfg files. Those can be overwritten by hotfixes / reinstalls.

Instead add your -work configuration directive to the sasv9_usermods.cfg file. This file will not be overwritten, and since it is included as last, its directives take precedence.

Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 08:02:31 GMT

@akaashuu, I subscribe to the recommendations provided by @SASKiwi and @Kurt_Bremser.

For other people looking at this kind of question, just a quick addition. If you have troubles tracing the settings of an specific SAS session, you can always write in your code:

%put _ALL_;

This line will write all your system and global variables in your log, such as the location of the SASWORK, SASTEMP and SASUSER libraries, the username, locale, etc. Always helpful.

Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton

akaashuu — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:18:14 GMT

Thank you KurtBremser,

I modified sasv9 file in this SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\nls\en

that defintely makes sense and thankyou for pointing that out.

can you be please point out the locaiton for the file sasv9_usermods.cfg. I did a search on the server it came back with quite a few.

thank you again.

Re: how to Change logical workspace server locaiton

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:25:12 GMT

This file you can find it under SAS/Config/LevX and then under SASApp or SASApp/WorkspaceServer