EG 8 doesn't appear to allow having multiple projects open at the same time unfortunately. A workaround would be to open multiple EG instances and open different projects in each.  ... View more

If you have more than one monitor then you can always move the Servers or Projects windows to another monitor for even more screen space with EG 8. Personally I love the tabbing layout in EG 8 because I prefer working with multiple programs at the same time.  ... View more

FYI there is the SCANSTRINGCOLUMNS option for certain Viya relational database connectors which does exactly what you want, just not for Parquet and only available in SAS 9.4 for Google BigQuery. ... View more

@gowerc - Are you aware that most SAS software enhancements now happen only in SAS Viya and not SAS 9.4? Viya is updated monthly, SAS 9.4 every 2 years or so and only maintenance releases. Improvements like this are only likely in Viya unless there is huge customer demand.  ... View more

To get a priority response open a ticket via the Tech Support channel: https://service.sas.com/ ... View more

Did you check if the port is already in use or not like I suggested? Rebooting the server would also fix this problem.  ... View more

Looks like you have AUTOEXEC programs running at server startup assigning Oracle and ODBC LIBNAMES. Do these work correctly when accessing your grid server via EG or SAS Studio when using the same account you use with SMC? If you get the same type of errors then you may have a configuration issue and @EyalGonen 's link should help. If it works OK in EG or SAS Studio then I suspect the validation process itself is missing the correct configuration. ... View more

If you want an official response to your issue then raising a Tech Support track is the best option. ... View more

In that case you might want to reach out to your IT folks for guidance and provide them with the install log. ... View more

I suggest you check if port 41416 is already in use or not as that appears to be the port used by the cache locator. You can use the netstat or lsof linux commands to do that. If the port is already in use, kill the process using it, then try starting the cache locator again. ... View more

We use SAS/ACCESS Interface to Snowflake too and see the same behaviour.   A Google search suggests that this could be standard Snowflake behaviour: https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/Varchar-length-implicitly-increases-if-column-is-Uppercased ... View more

Has the SAS Software Depot you are installing off been used to successfully install on other computers? Is this an upgrade to an existing SAS installation or a completely new installation from scratch?   It would be worthwhile opening a track with Tech Support for this problem. ... View more

Interesting. We call SQL Server stored procedures via SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC and never had problems like this. ... View more

@thesasuser - Why the need to share external database connections as @Patrick has already asked? Personally I've never encountered any recent issues with every SAS user having their own connections, especially with the high performance of modern networks. ... View more