Q2 Workbench New Features Update: June 2025

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See What’s New in SAS^® Viya^® Workbench

• R runtime support
  Code from scratch in R or bring your existing R code into Viya Workbench. Learn more.
   
• Microsoft Azure availability
  Now available in private preview! Contact your SAS account executive to sign up.
   
• SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® (coming in July) 
  EG connectivity will be available – in addition to VS Code and JupyterLab/Jupyter Notebook – as an IDE choice.  

• Storage snapshots
  You can now take a snapshot and save it as a persistent copy. Minimal storage capacity is needed. Learn more.

• Environment variable manager
  Easily add custom variables to your data. Examples we expect users to try include SAS_LOG_CFG_PATH and SAS_LOG_OUTPUT_DIR.

• Multiple workspace support
  Users can now contribute into the same storage location, unlocking team collaboration.

• Cross-region connections in AWS
  Get increased data privacy and flexibility and less latency. Contact your SAS account executive if you would like to move your data plane installation to a different location.

• Python libraries
  We’re continuing to improve and expand our Python libraries. Network Analytics is a brand-new option, and we’ve added more capabilities under the existing ML package (Cardinality, Assess & Assess Bias). Learn more.

Watch this demo to see some of these new features in action.

Workbench Tip
Brought to you by Joe Madden, Workbench Product Manager

How to enable NFS storage support
You can now connect to your network file system (NFS) data using SAS Viya Workbench.

Here are the steps you (or your admin) will need to perform:

1. Get the Workbench-Dataplane AWS EKS NAT Gateway's IP Address from AWS Console.
2. Add IP Address to allow list of NFS server (within your AWS subscription).
3. Configure the NFS server to grant read and write permissions to the user with ID 1001 and group with ID 1001.
4. Next, send the following details to WorkbenchOps@sas.com:

• NFS server hostname/IP
• NFS share name
• Preferred subdirectory Viya Workbench will access

Once the steps above are complete, our team will complete a final step, enabling access.

Do you want to modify your compute options or have feedback for our team? Contact us at WorkbenchOps@sas.com to set up an appointment. We look forward to hearing from you!