We did this in SAS 9.1 by: - Editing the public portal page, via sasguest (who owns it by default) - Adding a text portlet with the disclamer text - Adding a text portlet, that contained the login form (scrapped from the login page html) - Directing all users to the public page not the login page We also added a url portlet that showed the EDW load status You will need to renable the public home page (its off by default in 9.2) but it should work. ... View more

SAS 9.1 clients (i,e di studio 3.4) can't talk to sas 9.2 SERVERS. ... View more

Now theres a rumour, Wonder if they will carry the timeut issue over though 😉 ... View more

Next version of EG is 5.1 and due out later this year with SAS 9.3. Havent seen a full whats new list so not sure if this is included. Message was edited by: Shane Gibson ... View more

The reason this happens is because when you move from IDP to WRS you are handed over to WRS and portal loses the fact that you are still logged in, as it no longer sees any active. This is due to Portal and WRS being seperate web apps I think. Only option I know of is to increse the timeout for IDP. ... View more

Or build a custom portlet that doesnt display it. ... View more

We deliver them via the Portal at the moment, but have been investigating distributing them via email to make it easier for users. I think with the new Outlook integration in the new BI 4.3 release coming up we will probably move towards that when we upgrade, as users will find it easier to access the WRS reports via Outlook as they use it all the time. ... View more

Chris from SAS posted a comment on my Blog here: http://blog.saasinct.com/2010/07/13/sas-9-2-bi-clients-m3-now-october/#comments Which says its arriving in August, and as he is the product manager for EG, im betting on August! ... View more

We use a combination of EG and DI Studio. We use EG as our exploration tool as it is just faster to use for this. But we use DI for the building of the ETL code, its better at doing repeatable ETL tasks, and for creating ETL flows (with LSF), promotion etc. DI 4.2 has also come a long way to providing some of the flexibility that EG offers as well. Of course DI does cost more..... ... View more

Try searching in the SAS Portal for the .srx report and then right click on the link and copy it to the clipboard. Then paste it into the browser and see if that works. That should tell you the construct of the url to use. ... View more

We had a number of customers with the same problem in SAS 9.1.3 so we ended up building an additional custom module that allowed both WRS and WRV to accept parameters automatically from an external source. ... View more

A few SAS Administrators I know rave about this course as a great platform administration course: http://www.sas.com/apps/wtraining2/coursedetails.jsp?ctry=us&course_code=PAFAST But it is a Metadata Server centric course. ... View more