Is there a way for non-SAS users to run programs without a license for each machine?

[Joel_P]

I have a few programs, some are tables, some are graphs, to produce information that my coworkers need.  All I have to do is open the program and run it, no ad hoc modifications required.  However I'm the only one with a SAS license because I'm the only one who does SAS programming.  It would be nice if other people could run the program on their own, but obviously it's a bit absurd to purchase a full SAS license for any person who would occasionally be running a program.  I don't understand the various SAS product offerings to know if there's some alternative to this, and the Acct Exec I asked didn't think there was.  Does anyone have a different answer?

[ballardw]

You may need additional SAS modules to make the programs useable to remote users and likely involve some sort of server setup to handle the requests.

Depending on the actual needs, such as are the users going to set / pick parameters or simply run a complete canned program their are options.

I might suggest contacting SAS Sales to go over your completed needs to get the options of SAS module(s) and costs for your actual use cases.

[PaigeMiller]

Depending on IT restrictions at your site, something like this might work.

When someone wants to run some code that you have written, they place a text file in a specific folder on a server that you both have access to. This text file must include specific instructions about what to run, for example if you have a program named BASEBALL that the user wants to run, the text file must contain the text BASEBALL. Once an hour (or other time interval), your SAS code executes on your machine, sees that there is a file in that folder and reads the file and runs the proper job on your machine (hence no additional license is needed), and writes the results back out to the server where the originator of the request can obtain the results.