Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:52:44 -0500
Reply-To: Tom White <tw2@MAIL.COM>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Tom White <tw2@MAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: How to open distinct and multiple sessions of SAS
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Richard,
As part of the normal SAS installation, the context menu choice "Open with
SAS 9.1" creates a shortcut that utilizes SASOACT.EXE. The sasoact is a
little stub program that causes multiple Windows Explorer 'opens' to use the
same SAS session, and/or open the file into an existing SAS session.
How do you do this step by step please ?
T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard A. DeVenezia"
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: How to open distinct and multiple sessions of SAS
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:45:40 -0500
Gerhard Hellriegel wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> I think, that should be possible with different configuration files.
> Via the configuration file the important "private" libs WORK and
> SASUSER are allocated. You must have private pathes (directories) for
> each of the SAS sessions, enter that different pathes for WORK and
> SASUSER in your start-icon for the session with the option -config
> Not too important, but maybe a good idea: make also autoexec- and
> other individual start-files "private" for each session.
> With that it should be possible to start more than one session. I'm
> not aware of any option which forces the task to be a single one.
> Gerhard
As part of the normal SAS installation, the context menu choice "Open with
SAS 9.1" creates a shortcut that utilizes SASOACT.EXE. The sasoact is a
little stub program that causes multiple Windows Explorer 'opens' to use the
same SAS session, and/or open the file into an existing SAS session.
It is no major undertaking to craft a shortcut that always opens a new SAS
session. When dealing with multiple sessions an important issue is the
SASUSER. In the past -RSASUSER allowed multiple sessions to share a sasuser
folder in readonly fashion -- at present, V9 relies on modifying user based
aspects of the SAS registry, stored in the SASUSER. The session will
probably complain in the log when RSASUSER is used.
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Richard A. DeVenezia
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