Tag: SAS Viya

Altair SLC 2026 series: Summary post #2

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For the background to this series of summary posts see Altair SLC 2026 series: Introduction to posts.

Book links:

Book A: Advanced Altair SLC

Comparing Altair SLC with SAS Software

A-02  There is no session, there is a workspace

The first thing that surprises a SAS programmer opening Altair Analytics Workbench: there is no session. There is a workspace.

That one difference changes how you set the current working folder, how file types are associated, and how a server is assigned before anything will run.

Book A shows the 2024 and 2025 releases side by side, how to identify the installed version on Windows 11 and on Linux, and compares Workbench feature by feature with SAS Enterprise Guide.

If you are moving a team across, this is the chapter to read first.

Advanced Altair SLC, chapter 3.

#AltairSLC #SASProgramming #EnterpriseGuide #DataAnalytics

Book B: Altair SLC for Business Users

Working with Altair SLC day to day

B-02  Where your defaults come from

Two sessions, same program, different results. Almost always the defaults.

Altair SLC has two kinds: those built into the product, and those set in the configuration file. Until you know which is which, a session is not reproducible on anybody else’s machine.

Book B gives the initialisation procedure for Altair SLC 2026 step by step, for Windows and then for Linux, and separates the two kinds of default option properly.

Altair SLC for Business Users, section 2.3.

#AltairSLC #Reproducibility #SASProgramming #Linux

Book C: Altair SLC for Companies

The case, the cost and the migration

C-02  Four products, two tables

Altair SLC. Foundation SAS 9.4. SAS Viya. SAS Viya Workbench.

Book C compares all four in two tables. The first summarises the pricing model of each product from publicly available information. The second compares capability and scope across primary positioning, deployment model, execution engine and language support.

It is deliberately short, because it is written to be put in front of people who will not read the rest of the book.

Altair SLC for Companies, section 3.3.

#AltairSLC #SASViya #DataAnalytics #ITStrategy

SAS Explore: SAS 9.4M8 will be supported until Jan2028, with more maintenance releases scheduled

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At SAS Explore, which was held in Las Vegas in September 2023, the future of SAS 9 was clarified in https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2023/09/29/sas-9-and-sas-eg/.

  • SAS 9.4M8 will be supported until Jan2028.
  • There will be future releases of SAS 9, so it will be supported well beyond Jan2028.
  • SAS Studio will continue to be the best environment for SAS Viya.
  • However, Enterprise Guide will soon be able to access both SAS 9 and SAS Viya.

Want to become a VIEWS Consultant? Could you write a short article about SAS Viya, SAS VA or other SAS-related topic for VIEWS News 66?

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Want to become a VIEWS Consultant? Could you write a short article about SAS Viya, SAS VA or other SAS-related topic for VIEWS News 66? All published authors will become VIEWS Consultants, unpaid, but internationally respected.

VIEWS News 66 (2021Q4) is scheduled for publication in November 2021, so I’m looking for short articles to include in this newsletter. Although I have written articles for the newsletter in the past, it is really intended to showcase your ideas, and not mine! Amongst the topics not seen in the recent issues are:

  • SAS Viya
  • SAS VA
  • SAS Metadata
  • Animated graphics
  • SAS servers
  • SAS in the Cloud, like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
  • or many other SAS-related topics

If you have anything suitable, then please email it to views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 14 November 2021. I look forward to seeing what you can send to me.

SUGUKI SAS user group in the UK & Ireland – September & October updates

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SUGUKI is an independent SAS User Group, staffed by volunteers – and we are in continuous need of speakers, venues, sponsorship, and general support. Our web site can be found at https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI. We’d love to hear from you. We also now have a community on SAS Communities!!

Our events are always 6-8pm on a Thursday, with two SAS presentations and drinks. Sign up below!

06SEP2018 – London SUGUKI meetup – https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI/events/bvxtjpyxmbjb/ – Come and see David Shannon (Amadeus) present “Come on, Baby, Light My SAS Viya”.
20SEP2018 – Manchester SUGUKI meetup – https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI/events/253408203/
04OCT2018 – London SUGUKI meetup – https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI/events/bvxtjpyxnbgb/ – I’ll be presenting “Converting Annotate to ODS Graphics. Is it possible?” and offering copies of some of my latest ebooks in a free prize draw for attendees!

All these events are free, but you must register for security and capacity reasons.

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