Hello I am trying to understand SAS Viya4 on AWS. After SAS Viya4 is deployed on AWS, under site-config there is a folder "vdm". Trying to what this "vdm" is and what is its significance. I would appreciate if someone can explain. ... View more

Hello I am exploring the possibility of creating alerts on Pager duty for adverse events on SAS servers using SAS code.  By adverse events I mean high memory/CPU consumption, Low free disk space etc. Wondering if anybody can share their experience on this. ... View more

Hello We are trying to upgrade   SAS Viya 2024.09 LTS to SAS Viya2025.03 LTS and running into an issue. In the 2024.09 LTS version the rabbitmq stateful sets confirm to the "sas" storage class whereas in the 2025.03 LTS version this storage class needs to be "io2-vol-mq". The deployment appears to fail on this count. Wondering if any body can enlighten us in making this change while retaining the old data? ... View more

Hello Wondering if it is possible to  create a custom folder /data-drivers/jdbc on the compute pod of SAS Viya 4 deployment running on AWS? ... View more

Hello Wondering if there is a way to get the details of nodes in a SAS viya4 deployment using kubectl? (or may be some config file that has the details) I was interested in knowing the details of disk space, vCPU, RAM and attached storage. Thanks ... View more

Hello Wondering if it is possible to obtain the cadence and release information of a Viya4 deployment using kubectl command. I know we can get it from SAS Studio, but I am trying to see if that can be had through kubectl. ... View more

Hello I am trying to run a code which givers error particular values of zipcode. data _null_; dist=zipcitydistance(36310,36061); run; The error in the log is NOTE: ZIP code value 36310 could not be found in SASHELP.ZIPCODE. NOTE: Invalid argument to function ZIPCITYDISTANCE('36310','36061') at line 27 column 6. dist=. _ERROR_=1 _N_=1 NOTE: Mathematical operations could not be performed at the following places. The results of the operations have been set to missing values. Each place is given by: (Number of times) at (Line):(Column). 1 at 27:6 If I change the order of zipcode in the function taking 36061 first, then the error would be 24 25 GOPTIONS ACCESSIBLE; 26 data _null_; 27 dist=zipcitydistance(36061,36310); 28 run; NOTE: ZIP code value 36061 could not be found in SASHELP.ZIPCODE. NOTE: Invalid argument to function ZIPCITYDISTANCE(36061,36310) at line 27 column 6. dist=. _ERROR_=1 _N_=1 NOTE: Mathematical operations could not be performed at the following places. The results of the operations have been set to missing values. Each place is given by: (Number of times) at (Line):(Column). 1 at 27:6 The server has been updated for the latest values of zipcodes. Looks like I missing something. Can anybody help? ... View more

Hello We have SAS installed on Windows Server and Clients connecting using SAS EG. I have observed that often when a users runs SAS code, a jproxy process is created. often this consumes higher system resources. In the instant case  one jproxy process alone  was consuming 75% of the CPU and the code was something like this ods graphics on; proc reg data=&in.(where=&where) plots=diagnostics(unpack) PLOTS(MAXPOINTS=2800000); model m1=%temp/abc; run; proc reg data=&in.(where=&where) plots=diagnostics(unpack) PLOTS(MAXPOINTS=800000); model m1=%temp/cde; run; Can somebody help me understand what is jproxy and why this high CPU consumption? Is there a way to handle this type of case more gracefully? ... View more