How can I get an Altair SLC Personal Edition license?

Bennettpe

I have downloaded and installed both SLC and Analytics Workbench and am trying to get the licence , it states in a previous post to run the following command "C:\Program Files\Altair\SLC\2024\bin\wps" -personal which i have done, but changed the year before running, when i tey ad run Analytics Workbench its saying there is not licence so what am i doing wrong ?.

Roger DeAngelis_21630

I do not use the workbench, but you can use the command line, notepab++ or ultraedit.

This comamnd line worked for me, see below
"C:\Progra~1\Altair\SLC\2026\bin\wps" -sysin "c:/temp/procoptions.sas"

Setp for Notepad++ (Will updat from original WPS for Altair SLC.
https://github.com/rogerjdeangelis/utl-setup-notepad--editor-for-use-with-wps-altair-sas

Setup for ultraedit
https://github.com/rogerjdeangelis/utl-altair-slc-ultraedit-a-better-IDE-than-eclipse-maybe

THIS WORKED FOR ME

Create this program in c:/temp/procoptions.sas

proc options group=memory;
run;

COMMAND LINE
d:\py314\Scripts>"C:\Progra~1\Altair\SLC\2026\bin\wps" -sysin "c:/temp/procoptions.sas"

LOG
1 Altair SLC 08:34 Monday, February 9, 2026

NOTE: Copyright 2002-2025 World Programming, an Altair Company
NOTE: Altair SLC 2026 (05.26.01.00.000758)
Licensed to Roger DeAngelis
NOTE: This session is executing on the X64_WIN11PRO platform and is running in 64 bit mode

NOTE: AUTOEXEC processing beginning; file is C:\wpsoto\autoexec.sas
NOTE: AUTOEXEC source line
1 + n++ods all close;
^
ERROR: Expected a statement keyword : found "n"

NOTE: AUTOEXEC processing completed

1 proc options group=memory;
2 run;
MAXSORTSIZE=10737418240 Maximum automatically chosen when PARALLELINSTANCES is set
MAXSUMSIZE=10737418240 Maximum automatically chosen SUMSIZE when PARALLELINSTANCES is set
MEMSIZE=0 Limit on the total amount of memory used by the system
MINSORTSIZE=10485760 Minimum automatically chosen SORTSIZE when PARALLELINSTANCES is set
MINSUMSIZE=10485760 Minimum automatically chosen SUMSIZE when PARALLELINSTANCES is set
PARALLELINSTANCES=1 Expected number of parallel jobs: sets an automatic SORTSIZE and SUMSIZE, based on memory available from the OS
SORTSIZE=MAX Hint about the amount of memory to use when performing a sort
SUMBUFNO=0 The number of buffers to be used for a batch in summary procedures
SUMSIZE=MAX The default maximum storage to be used by PROC SUMMARY and PROC MEANS

NOTE: Procedure options step took :
real time : 0.004
cpu time : 0.015