Yes Kurt, they are part of an appserver setup for each of the SP WS and even a connect an batch server one. Can be frustrating that the batch server with arm log config being activated is disabling the quoting being necessary to allow spaces in filenames at the sysin option. This is at the Unix environment. Studio is a webbased approach connecting to a WS competition with the DMS and Eguide. ... View more

Yes Kurt agree on the SAS EBI part all logging and monitoring is set up as part of that. When you have forced your users into that and not allowing anything with SAS without your knowledge you can monitor the usage. What is achieved is abandoning the SAS usage for self service shadow IT. Knowing them and restrictions the usage makes logging and monitoring less usefull. When all flexibility of SAS usage is handed over the logging can be bypassed within SAS it cannot bypassed at the OS level.. I do not agree that Unix systems are better. Windows admins are far more cooperative to deliver something and Unix admins are often far more blocking ones. That is the reason I believe SAS started to build something themself. Misalignment of the Unix support stating the application Eg SAS should sole monitoring and auditing like Oracle has done. ... View more

Ram4sas  the environment manager is the successor of apm. Both are based on arm logging. The environment manager is adding some things of vfabric vm tools and another dbms postgres as of that. It comes with a lot of sample reports and starters first access screens as of operational support. When the operational support is an segregated department as is normal ib bigger professional organizations there is business challenge to alignment. Those sample reports can be added to new ones when having access to the collected data. That is what Michelle posted with admins are needing a dashboard too. Building can be done in any tool and as SAS support staff it makes sense to use the SAS tools. But that is not really a hard one. As you are mentioning eguide Libnames with oracle, that is a bad description. The sas sessions being in control at the server with monitoring can arm tailored. Using eguide with a local sas session on a desktop will not. Both are eguide and sas usage. Eguide is more a terminal aaproach your question on monitoring and auditing is about data governance and structuring environments. ... View more

Your question is getting more complicated. Apm better classified arm logging can be configured to log all kind of events with using SAS in a controlled environment. You can tailor that to any kind  of access event to tables using SAS on the server. It can be tailored to see any SAS code usage as long that is run on your server. It would be weird for me to have the SAS code (is that what you men by report?) being logged with accessing tables as that combination looks to me meaningless. That combination could be a result of reverse engineering when the design of code is missing. SAS will never be able to log the access to tables using a rdbms like oracle using something like TOAD. That access of data is not having anything of SAS involved. The same could be for downloaded SAS datasets to another machine that is not in control of access monitoring. ... View more

Do not process the logfiles that active written to.You are not having a technical problem you are having a logical one. At the moment you are reading writing is not allowed and vice versa. That is a generic prerequisition locking is a solution to synchronize actions. ... View more

Logging can be done and configured with arm for the resources inside SAS. With external resources like a dbms or at the os level you have those resources. A complete audit and logging requirement for all data is needing a holistic view. That requirement is coming as of regulations. It is rather pittyfull SAS is missing those basic principles for the why's of these guidelines and regulations. ... View more

Did you try; embedding in single quotes as indication of a sas string and inner embedded with double quotes as of Windows allowing spaces? You are seeing the ' and " close after each other. '"Test folfder/file bsme"' ... View more

Phil what you are describing is the basics demand for any commercial scheduler. Sas is often coming with LSF when there is a need for scheduling. More likely in any bigger organization there is already such tooling with an operational support staf within the it department. In those cases SAS is some paria difficult to get aligned with IT people. As a bypass you can build scheduling on your own based on polling all programmed in Sas. ... View more

Is avoiding spaces in file and/or directory names an answer? I have seen more issues on this with SAS. the problem is you need ^ at the oslevel arround the file/directory name. This "often ha a different meaning in Sas or in thé she'll in between. That is becoming a fight on to the ' and ". Sometimes disappearing magically. ... View more