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1. Install Altair SLC for Linux on the Linux server and apply your Altair SLC server license. For example, you may install Altair SLC for Linux into /opt/altair/slc/2024. 2. Install Altair Analytics Workbench for Windows on the PC. When you get to the optional components step, you can opt not to include the Local Server.…
Altair SLC makes use of OpenSSL to secure certain communications. OpenSSL is a security utility for working with TLS (SSL) certificates. Altair SLC 2023, 2024, 2025 requires OpenSSL 3.0 and does not require OpenSSL 1.1.1. Altair SLC 4.x requires any version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 - the current version is 1.1.1q. OpenSSL is…
The performance of Altair SLC depends on a number of factors including the number of users sharing the service, the types of applications being run, the types of disk access to fast local storage, where the data is and how it is retrieved. On a shared server there may be other memory or CPU constraints needed to enable…
On Windows the Altair SLC command line interface can be used in the Windows CMD tool like this: cd "FOLDER_NAME" "SLC_INSTALL_ROOT\bin\wps.exe" PROGRAM_NAME.sas -print PROGRAM_NAME.lst -log PROGRAM_NAME.log Replace FOLDER_NAME with the full path to the folder where your .sas program files are stored, and replace…
Code abbreviations and expansions are handled in Workbench using code templates. If you wish to include more extensive code for a procedure or a data step you can set this up in Window->Preferences->Altair->Code Templates where you can create named templates. Select the New button and enter the name of your template, such…
It is possible to change the background theme using Window->Preferences->General->Appearance where you should find a pulldown list of supported themes including 'Dark'. The workbench is essentially a plugin to the Eclipse IDE framework meaning sites such as http://guari.github.io/eclipse-ui-theme/ may provide some other…
The workbench is an interactive GUI for developing and diagnosing SAS language scripts. The log and listing output are 'tabs' in the custom perspective of this framework and as such are a 'view' of what is going on when a full or part of a program is executed. Once you have your program working the intention is that you…
On Linux and other Unix based systems the Altair SLC command line interface looks like this: cd FOLDER_NAME SLC_INSTALL_ROOT/bin/wps PROGRAM_NAME.sas -print PROGRAM_NAME.lst -log PROGRAM_NAME.log Replace FOLDER_NAME with the full path to the folder where your .sas program files are stored, and replace PROGRAM_NAME with the…
1. The Administrator should carry out the following steps in preparation. 1.1. Install and configure SLC on the server. Apply the licence. 1.2. Install the Altair Analytics Workbench Windows MSI installer on one typical Windows workstation. Be sure to de-select the Altair SLC Server part of the installation when prompted…
It is possible to send email notifications from Altair SLC using the filename email syntax. Typically this would be done by defining the email system options, for example: -EMAILSYS SMTP -EMAILHOST <your_SMTP_server> You could add these to a local altairslc.cfg file (for more information search for configuration files in…
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