When using sasauth with PAM, authentication will fail due to unresolved symbols coming from pam_unix2.so

On a table or graph, if you apply an object filter that is a subset of an applied section filter, the Applied Filters information still displays both filters. In the following example, a section

To change output locations and levels for the logging in SAS Customer Intelligence 5.3, you need to use the SAS ® Foundation Services plug-in for SAS ® Management Console to create and use a log

The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is big business and March Madness is exciting, but is the selection process fair?

Using the SAS Analytics-powered "Dance Card" formula developed by Jay Coleman of the University of North Florida, Mike DuMond of Charles River Associates, and Allen Lynch of Mercer University, these professors uncovered selection committee bias in favor of particular conferences, as well as bias in favor of the teams with some representation on the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee itself. Bias in the seeding process appears to be even more pronounced than bias in the at-large selections.

Although many have surmised over the years that these types of biases exist, no study before this one has comprehensively examined the range of biases in both processes. With SAS analytics, the evidence is speaking for itself.

Check out the Dance Card rankings of all NCAA Division I men's basketball teams. Applying SAS analytics software, the professors have long predicted, with great accuracy, the "at-large" teams – those teams that did not get automatic bids to the tournaments.

In classes, these three professors use these predictive models as a way to illustrate the surging business analytics trend to their business school students. Right after showing students the Dance Card application, the professors show them six or seven business applications that use the same type of model. These students are getting real world experience with the power of analytics so they can embrace, influence and prepare for what will be, what can be, and what should be.

There are two new tags that can be added to the omaconfig.xml file for the SAS ® Metadata Server. The first, &ltDEBUG ANALYZE_METADATA_FILES=";y";/&gt , allows you to analyz

SAS Intelligence Platform clients use a hierarchy of SAS folders to store metadata. The hierarchy includes a personal folder that is created for each individual user. Note: For more information, see

In an OLAP-based report, drilled categories that are visible in the report are displayed in the breadcrumb trail above the table or graph. Categories that are not visible in the report are represented in the applied filter

In SAS BI Dashboard, you might receive the following error message when you attempt to save changes to the height or width of the dashboard: Unable

SAS size="-1">® 9.2 provides a new feature called Security Subsets. This feature is enabled in your OLAP cube by building the cube with the SECURITY_SUBSET=YES option in your OLAP procedure cod

Twenty-four sessions, twenty-four speakers, twenty-four different topics over just two days, and I didn’t just sit through the convention as a participant, no, I moderated the entire two day event as its Chairman. The Financial Forecasting and Planning Summit, organized by the IE Group, and held at the DoubleTree Mission Valley in San Diego, February 25-26. Whew! That was a lot of work.

As Chair, you literally do not get a break. While the participants are grabbing a coffee and a snack, you, as moderator, are busy tracking down the next set of speakers, many of whom only showed up during the middle of the prior session, learning how to mispronounce their names, finding out that they’ve changed their presentation topic since the agenda went to press, scrapping the introduction you spent twenty minutes working on the prior evening and quickly rewriting a new intro based on that new topic, and otherwise dealing with the various changes and announcements that the organizers are throwing at you, some unavoidable (ill speakers) and some evidently just to make you jump (Agenda? Isn’t that a synonym for “rough guideline”?)

Twenty-four speakers over just two days, thirty minutes each, and not a minute extra. Give into one and you lose control of the entire meeting, so out of necessity you become the Timekeeper from Hell. By lunch time of Day 1 I had all the speakers completely paranoid; exactly where I wanted them.
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When used in a text-based conditional highlighting rule, some special characters, such as > and <, might not display correctly. For example, if your conditional highlighting rule inserts the text string "Total

SAS/ACCESS Interface to HP Neoview (SAS 9.1.3) has been enhanced to include the BULKLOAD= option.

When attempting to update a SAS BI Dashboard indicator, you might receive the following error: ----------------------------------------------

SAS Enterprise Guide inserts quotation marks around formatted numeric values when the values are exported to a delimited text file. This behavior is a change from SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1, which did not insert the

Usually an 'out of memory' message means the SAS procedure needed more system memory, but there was not enough memory available to run the job. The amount of memory a SAS job can consume is limited by the MEM

Even if you do not have physical access to a table that is being used as a data source for an information map, you might still see results when opening the information map in SAS Enterprise Guide. Specifically, if server-

SAS Marketing Automation 5.1 is supported to work with Platform Suite for SAS (Platform LSF version 6.2). Support that enables SAS Marketing Automation 5.1 to work with Platform Suite for SAS (Platform LSF version 7) is

When adding reference lines on a line graph in SAS Web Report Studio, the reference line might not display as expected. This problem is most likely to occur if the data item that is assigned to Line Height has been f

SAS size="-1">® 9.2 provides a new feature called Security Subsets. This feature is enabled in your OLAP cube by building the cube with the SECURITY_SUBSET=YES option in your OLAP procedure code,

With SAS size="-1">® 9.2, the first location for an aggregation file or index is randomly selected from the INDEXPATH and DATAPATH options. This means that the distribution of the files wil