Hi there, wondering if anyone has played much with the HPENG component? I am looking to leverage our two (largely idle overnight) other servers in our cluster to see if I can get some more performance out of our very large HPENG generation during the quiet hours. We currently only run it on one physical server, but I wanted to confirm if this is restriction by license as I see in our file: SAS High-Performance Entity and Network Generation Non-Distributed Mode   Non-distributed to me, suggests that this would only be allowable on a single machine, but would the PROC show some type of warning if I was to test say scaling out to 2 more machines with 24 CPU cores onboard each? Or would it still do it and put me in breach of our license. I already have in place fast shared storage between the machines - enterprise flash appliance, and each machine has a good amount of memory (1TB RAM apiece) Just trying to figure out if it is worth investigating the option now, or will have to park it pending next round of licensing renewal as paperwork is never any fun part of the renew 😄 TIA. ... View more

Looking for a solution to a problem which I have been presented with. We currently have two separate SAS installs at our site - both 9.4M6, one is used for BASE SAS code and the other is a full stack including web services, SNA, DI amongst others.   We have a user group that uses both servers and would like access to several (large > 100GB sas7bdat size) files from both systems. We normally transfer (rsync replication) over smaller files but larger data sets would be problematic to transfer in the window we have when the servers are fairly idle overnight. In the past we used to use a hosted share on one of the servers, but this also proved problematic, often leading to locked files, especially on pre-assigned libs and then delays on startup of SAS sessions waiting for timeouts to happen. It also means that we had to co-ordinate the downtime of both instances so that no jobs using these shared tables are in process of being written to from the other server or risk loss of data.   Looking at SAS/SHARE - would this be a possible solution to transferring the files over wholesale each evening and also allow us to attribute file locks effectively between the two separate platforms? The other plan I am investigating is a dedicated file host that we can have both system independently attach to with the shared data sets housed on it, but again I am not sure that SAS will be able to "know" that a file is locked for single access or being written to by the other server.     ... View more

Wondering if anyone has tried this and has some insights as to if it is even possible.   This is in regards to 9.4 M2.   I am looking at disaster recovery type of situtations at the moment with our SAS cluster, particularly with how quickly we can get back up and running in a total loss situation of the cluster setup.   Question is, can a metadata backup be restored to another machine outside of the original cluster - so for example if we had a standby cluster is it just a matter of moving the files to a location that the server can get to them through the "Recover from Alternate Location"   The other element of that question would be if you haven't done a package export (lets say an OLAP cube and its measures/dimensions) at an individual item level, can you retrieve those from metadata backups without restore process taking place if (metadata backup) it cannot be recovered to another server   ... View more