SAS Studio: Accessing PC/Local files

[Kurt_Bremser]

Note that, in the picture, your teacher is connected to localhost, which means (s)he used a local SAS installation, not ODA.

[blueskyxyz]

thanks, KB

[MaryA_Marion]

SAS STUDIO in SAS ON DEMAND is in a lockdown state and does not have all
the capabilities as the paid version. I moved files I use often online and
have changed my work habits accordingly. It takes a while to get used to
this.
MM

[blueskyxyz]

thanks MM,try to adapt

[ErinKSimmons]

Is there an article that I could reference for our SAS Admin about how to give this access to the network drive folder?

[Kurt_Bremser]

As admins, they have to know how to mount a network share on the SAS server.

[SASKiwi]

This isn't really a SAS problem and you can easily find the answer by googling it. A lot depends on your network environment and OSs being used. In my experience, a server administrator will more likely do this stuff, not a SAS administrator.

[ErinKSimmons]

To give background. We had been using SAS EG and are converting SAS Viya and data studio. Our current network drives and set up has been in place for a while and the architecture was set up by someone no longer here and to further compound the issue the branch being the administration (network or SAS). We have a need to pull in and output data to a network drive and are getting push back and as an end user I am trying to learn what I need to ask for and to whom I need to ask do it. So for me it wasn't an easy google search and any advice is appreciated.

[SASKiwi]

What OS does your SAS Viya run on and what version of Viya are you using? SAS Studio has an upload / download file function that doesn't require network folders.

For SAS to write directly to a folder share this will need to be defined on your SAS App server and how you do this depends on the server operating system.

[ErinKSimmons]

OS is Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044

SAS Viya release V.03.05

[SASKiwi]

I doubt Viya is running on Windows 10 Enterprise. Run this statement in SAS Studio and post the value from your SAS log:

%put Viya OS = &sysscpl;

[ErinKSimmons]

I thought you meant the OS of the computer that would be accessing the drive.

The Viya OS is Linux

[Tom]

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@ErinKSimmons wrote:
I thought you meant the OS of the computer that would be accessing the drive.

The Viya OS is Linux

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I thought the questions how to access files currently stored on your PC with your SAS code.  Or in your case with your VIYA code.  In that case the operating system where SAS is running matters with how you would access the file once you have uploaded it from your local PC to the machine where SAS (or VIYA) is running.

[AllanBowe]

Some additional options for uploading data to "SAS Studio":

1.  Drag & Drop into Data Controller -> https://datacontroller.io
2.  Deploy a Viya web for uploads, eg:  https://github.com/sasjs/fileuploader

3.  Build something using the SASjs Server REST API:  https://server.sasjs.io

[ErinKSimmons]

@AllanBowe thank you for this idea, but it isn't quite the goal I am after.