Check if BASE SAS is installed on Enterprise Guide 8.2

[DavidPhillips2]

Is there a way to check if Base SAS is installed on Enterprise Guide 8.2 in the earlier versions you have the option of selecting no profile and then using it.

[DavidPhillips2]

To clarify I'm trying to connect to local in Enterprise Guide 8.2 to download datasets from a server to my workstation.

[ChrisHemedinger]

See the article here Using SAS Enterprise Guide with your local SAS installation -- it shows how to check whether SAS is installed and registered on your local machine.

[DavidPhillips2]

These are the steps for 7.1.  In 8.2 I connected to no profile but I'm not sure if that means Base SAS or not, the view is very different.  After connecting to no profile and trying to run a SAS program the run button is grayed out.

[ChrisHemedinger · Accepted solution]

Even in 8.2/8.3 you can check Help->About SAS Enterprise Guide, then look at Configuration Details:

If you don't see a SAS version and command, then no local SAS was detected. And thus Local server won't be available for use.

[DavidPhillips2]

Since 8.2 is not installed I'm going to try to use BASE SAS on 7.1.  When I try to connect to a library in Enterprise Guide 7.1 it looks like the library is not recognized.  I found documentation to connect to a metadata server from base SAS but not how to connect to a library.  What is the correct libname call?

options metaserver="servername"
metaport=8561 /* The port on which the metadata server is listening. */
metauser="xxx" /* The domain-qualified user ID for the connection to *//* the metadata server. */
metapass="xxx" /* Password*/
metaprotocol=bridge /* Protocol for the metadata server. */
metarepository=Foundation;
/*this is the line I'm trying to figure out*/
libname mylibname  '//servername/Shared Data/VCU/libraryname/Libraries';