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If you have data stored in a Snowflake database, you can connect using the ODBC driver for Snowflake. To install the connection software you need to: * * Download and install the Snowflake ODBC driver (.tar.gz) from the Snowflake client repository. SLC currently supports only 64-bit versions from 2.21.5. * Once the file is…
Altair Analytics Workbench is essentially a plugin to the Eclipse IDE framework and each workspace has a special metadata folder to store all your preferences and configuration data related to that workspace. You can probably find references in google describing possible ways of re-using perspectives that you prefer. The…
Miniforge Setup for the Generative Models Extension for Altair AI Studio * Open Windows Control Panel and check for any existing Python installations or distributions such as Anaconda or Miniforge/Miniconda. Uninstall all of them. * Open your Environment Variables and check both User and System Variables sections for…
How do I update a Linux SLC Hub installation? Note that Altair SLC is installed on each of the hub's worker machines. You may also wish to upgrade Altair SLC at the same time - instructions are elsewhere. Downtime should be scheduled with the end-users. SLC Hub will be stopped and started and any existing running jobs will…
File size restrictions are influenced by both the computer operating system and the bit-ness of the application being used. 32-bit Altair SLC has a much smaller address space than 64-bit Altair SLC. The total number of observations generally allowed in a WPD format dataset is controlled by two system options OBS and…
You should be able to compile your macro in SLC using code of the form: libname maclib 'D:\sasmacro1'; options mstored sasmstore=maclib; %macro slc_compiled_macro (a,b) /store ; put "Hello from slc_compiled_macro"; %mend slc_compiled_macro; This should create a SASMACRO.wpccat file in the directory d:\sasmacro1 or append…
Here is an example of a source Macro stored in D: \sasmacro1\slc_mauto_test1.sas with contents %macro slc_mauto_test1(); data _null_; put "Hello from slc_mauto_test1() macro"; run; %mend; Another Macro stored in D: \sasmacro2\slc_mauto_test2.sas with contents %macro slc_mauto_test2(); data _null_; put "Hello from…
Issue Sometimes a customer does not wish to use the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) provided with Altair Analytics Workbench and Altair SLC. For example, there may be some widespread publicity about a bug in a version of Java, or a requirement to use one specific version that is approved by the customer's IT systems…
Altair Engineering provide technical support until the End-Of-Life (EOL) date for each version of Altair SLC, Altair Analytics Workbench and Altair SLC Hub software released. Versions and Version Numbers Note the distinction between product version numbers such as 2024.0 and software version numbers which may be 5.24.1,…
[This reply applies to Windows operating system only.] We understand the Windows Task Scheduler is an application from Microsoft to execute batch jobs. There is a command line interface to Altair SLC called 'wps.exe' in the bin folder of each SLC installation that can be used in any batch-type script that can then be…
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