SAS EG integration with SAS Viya

[woo]

Just curious, is it SAS Viya 3.5 will be having inbuilt capability to support SAS EG (without having SAS 9)? Thanks.

[SASKiwi]

EG 8.2 is able to connect directly to a SAS Workspace Server instead of requiring a SAS Metadata Server connection. Since SAS Viya does not have a metadata server then you need EG 8.2 to work with Viya. 

[woo]

Thank you SASKiwi. 

So can we license SAS Viya 3.5 with having EG option (while not having SAS 9 at all)?

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

Yes, that is theoretically possible. However, if you are migrating legacy SAS 9 applications do not expect them to work without problems on Viya as the architecture is so different.