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In you receive the message ERROR: Catalogs are not presently supported for SAS7BDAT libraries ERROR: The macro was not compiled then this is probably because you have changed the default engine in a Altair SLC configuration file using something of the form –ENGINE SAS7BDAT. This would mean that any LIBNAME statement would…
Under Window->Preferences, General->Editor->Text Editors at the bottom there is "Appearance color options" with an option for "Background colour". Select the Color: box to see a palette of colors. You may have to change "Selection Background Color". If you change to Grey it has right effect on editor. This method does not…
You should be able to change the font size in the Workbench editor by opening Windows->Preferences. In the tree on the left select General->Appearance->Colors and FontsType "text font" in the search dialog at the top. Select "Text font" under "basic".Select the "Edit..." button. Pick your font. Select OK, then Apply. Font…
Altair SLC is able to read/write SAS7BDAT data set files but not SAS7BCAT catalog files. Altair SLC catalogs are saved into WPCCAT files. If you have access to the SAS language code that was used to compile the catalog, then that can be used to generate the equivalent Altair SLC catalog files. Alternatively, if you have…
Issue: The Log window in Altair Analytics Workbench may be cleared if the program crashes. We want to keep a record of every job run regardless if the program crashes or completes normally. Solution: Use the -ALTLOG system option, along with the -LOGPARM option to ensure that all log entries are flushed immediately. For…
In the upgrade from version 3 to version 4 and version 2023 of Altair SLC, a new set of multithreaded database engines were introduced. Multi-threaded engines are able to work faster by carrying out multiple database interactions at the same time. The non-threaded (single-threaded) engines were retained and the…
Yes, Altair SLC supports the compress system option with CHAR, BINARY, YES or NO. Character compression is based on the RLE (Run Length Encoding) algorithm. Binary compression is based on the RDC (Ross Data Compression) algorithm. These apply to WPD and WPDSEQ engines.
Disaster Recovery can be organized and managed externally to the Altair software. An SLC server host can be mirrored by a similar-spec machine that is left unused except for occasional DR dry-run tests and for actual disaster recovery situations. Altair can provide a DR license for this server. WPD data set files are…
With respect to batch mode operation the list of return codes are: For z/OS: OK: 0 WARNING: 4 ERROR: 8 FATAL: 12 ABORT: 16 ABORT_RETURN: 20 ABEND: 999 INITIALISATION_ERROR: 8 For all other platforms: OK: 0 WARNING: 1 ERROR: 2 FATAL: 2 ABORT: 3 ABORT_RETURN: 4 ABEND: 5 INITIALISATION_ERROR: 6
A .egp file is in a compressed archive format. If you do not have too many .egp files it may be possible to read the SAS language code in the workbench by following these steps: * Rename a .egp file to .zip * Use winzip to extract all files into a 'folder' * Create a new blank project in the workbench project explorer…
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