Not bad Kurt those quotas. To bad to have forgotten it is not the default way of a sas installation as guided by sas. Designing file systems to isolate group of users on a shared machine is not mentioned. When doing that you can easily add the mandatory os controls with the security. Groups and ownership. Wanting to use the ulimits on a Unix based system you cannot use the user Unix ssettings but instead have to do it scripted in the sasapp configuration. It is the object spawner user ID that is the settings being shared for all Sas processes started by the objectspawner.  By default unlimited is needed. That quotas I see coming back as all those mis alignments by offering a vm machine for every type of user/group. Building vm machines is something Unix admins understand and they do not like The Sas approaches as security guys also do not like the sas stuff. ... View more

The Teradata dates are not stored in the way sas dates are stored. Sas is not supporting sql-2013 and by that missing all interval functions of sql. The result is is that constant date values may be translated correct onto teradata sql. But that is it, nothing more. ... View more

Why using a shared work for a al usage and kind of users. The sizing of work is dependent of the size of data being processed. Spreading in time and sharing those resources can decrease the total amount. 500Gb can be quite normal for some usage to start with these days. The tuning optimization of the IO system is one of the things to start with. It should not come in the end. That is difference between sales and technical wit business alignment. ... View more

You have several parts in your proces. 1/ Eguide that is your front end interface is supporting utf8 as it is build in .NET. 2/ your sas system base/foundation is the one that executes the code can run in single byte mostly Latin1.  It can also run in utf8 mode but in that case it should use other binaries. When it is on a server the SAS APP setting scripting os is the one doing that switch. 3/ there is an Access to oracle client software installed that must support the utf8 or the Latin1 encoding. This one is communicating with 4/ the oracle server and that database having defined some encoding fir the database and tables Having issues with thai you are most likely into some wrong configuration in the 2,3,4 aligning. Not an eguide issue but things that are used behind those. ... View more

The floating numbers are also named real numbers in mathematics because that is what is in the real world with measurements is happening. As the goal is statistics and modeling (predictive and uncertaintity) that makes perfectly sense to use. Super computers are many times evaluated by Tflops not mips. That automatic rounding as standard will help to hide some things ieee 754 Wikipedia is a good start. Only do in additions and subtraction you could use paced zoned with the ds2 language. Only with external dbms systems that will also stored that as it is not continued in Sas datasets. That is a difference of the goal of world's analytics real type numbers. Not limited by whole numbers or decimal representation. ... View more

Kurt  eguide with grid and parallel code submission is not an interactive only approach anymore. It is more doing batch work.  That is the flow processing in eguide and studio offering. Batch processing by selfservice. There is an advanced topic for dower to think about. That is checkpoint restart in SAS. by that you should be able to cancel long running jobs. The topic is an advanced one with a lot of pre reqs. The only event I have seen checkpoint restart being used is with mainframe job scheduling having jobs for several days to run. ... View more

Magowiz I am not sure about fedora. It could work needing some tweaking. That is bypasssing those checks. As it is Redhat I am sure it should work. I am sure about CentOS for the reason SAS did that with the UE edition. That tweaking of other OS I once did with windows as it was the only option after a desktop upgrade. Never knowing were failures are arising. ... View more