There is a workaround available to allow the JVM to launch from SAS.  You can edit SASFoundation/9.4/sasv9_local.cfg and insert the line: -jreoptions (-Xss2m)   With this change in place, the JVM should launch successfully even with the OS updates in place.   ... View more

This should do it. Note this returns GMT, so you'll need to adjust for your time zone. filename foo http "http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java" debug ; data _null_ ; length p1 $50 ; infile foo ; input ; put _infile_; if index(_infile_, "NISTSendTime") then do ; ind1=index(_infile_,'"') ; p1=substr(_infile_,ind1+1,length(_infile_)-ind1-3) ; mon=substr(scan(p1,1," "),1,3) ; date=scan(p1,2,", ") ; time=scan(p1,4," ") ; year=put(year(today()),4.); now=strip(date)||strip(mon)||year||' '||strip(time); nistime=input(now, datetime.) ; sastime=datetime(); put nistime= datetime. ; put sastime= datetime. ; stop ; end ; run ; ... View more

Sorry, I generally think of NTP as being Unix/Linux. You'll probably need to install NTP: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html And then modify the SAS code to call the appropriate Windows command. ... View more

Doug - You'll need to verify the path to the ntpdate command on your system - not to mention verify that it is installed. The command:   which ntpdate will show either the correct path to the command, or report that it is not found among the paths included in the $PATH environment variable. ... View more

You should be able to do this with ssh between the two systems.  Note that you'd need to have the SSH keys in place to handle authenticaction, as there is no other available mechanism. That is, if you can submit the ssh command to execute the remote script from the "local" system and have it correctly execute without being prompted for credentials, then you should be able to use the same command in an X statement from wthin your SAS session. ... View more