Over the years, I've found the some SAS processes exhibit signs of memory leak or other "stability" issues, so restarting them periodically seems to be A Good Thing (tm).  So every two weeks we stop all SAS processes, then start them all (in the proper order).  However, taking advantage of the restart, while all processes are stopped we perform a "cold" backup of all relevant config, data, etc.  One can never have too many backups. ... View more

Thanks Cliff! I vote for Grid-based and non-sas.servers support, and also the ability to act on one individual tier (for example, just tier 4), or act on a range of tiers (for example, just tiers 4 through 6).   Thanks! Paul   ... View more

If the Deployment sub-topic might include papers on the installation of SAS Viya, I'm okay.  Otherwise, how about an Installation sub-topic?  Particularly for Viya, since it's process is so radically different than that of SAS 9.   Thanks! Paul Sutcliffe   ... View more