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SPSS 12.0. -- Ed.
Resolving A Case of An Expired SAS 8.2
Installation
By Patrick
McLeod, Research and Statistical Support Services Consultant
UNT’s SAS 8.2 license passed another
expiration date on Sunday, February 1st. Functionally,
this means that if you were running SAS 8.2 on your computer as
an individual installation and had been ignoring the pestering
SAS system messages asking you to update your SETINIT file, SAS
8.2 will not open and will not function on your computer. Never
fear! There is a simple procedure by which you can update your
SAS 8.2 SETINIT file and be up and running in no time.
Before Expiration: PROC SETINIT
Before the grace period expires in SAS 8.2,
you can update your SAS installation’s SETINIT file using the SAS
procedure PROC SETINIT. To run PROC SETINIT, you obtain a copy of
the most recent SAS SETINIT file (a file that updates the
internal license object for SAS) from your Network Manager. If
you are a Network Manager, you can obtain this file by contacting
ACS Research and Statistical Support at x2140 or x4066. We will
provide you with a username and password to access a page on the
RSS website where you will find the current version of the SAS
SETINIT file. You may then access this file at your convenience.
A step-by-step guide follows regarding how
to update your SAS license using PROC SETINIT:
- Open the SETINIT file in a text editor
such as Notepad. You should see something similar to the
following:
PROC SETINIT RELEASE='8.2';
SITEINFO NAME='UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS'
SITE=XXXXXXXX OSNAME='WIN' RECREATE WARN=45 GRACE=45
BIRTHDAY='XXXxxxXXXX'D EXPIRE='XXxxxXXXX'D PASSWORD=XXXXXXXX;
CPU MODEL=' ' MODNUM=' ' SERIAL=' ' NAME=CPU000;
EXPIRE 'BASE' 'STAT' 'GRAPH' 'ETS' 'FSP' 'OR' 'AF' 'IML' 'QC'
'SHARE'
'LAB' 'ASSIST' 'CONNECT' 'INSIGHT' 'EIS' 'GIS' 'SPECTRAVIEW'
'SHARE*NET' 'MDDB Server common products'
'OnlineTutor: SAS Programming' 'SECURE-WIN' 'DB2' 'ORACLE'
'SYBASE-SQL Server' 'PC File Formats' 'ODBC' 'OLE DB'
'XXXXXXXX'D / CPU=CPU000;
EXPIRE 'Enterprise Miner' 'XXXXXXXXXX'D / CPU=CPU000;
SAVE; RUN;
*DROPPED SAS/CALC;
*DROPPED SAS/ENGLISH;
*DROPPED SAS/TUTOR CBT101;
*XYZ 52845;
*Enterprise Miner client technology authorized for 9999 Users;
*09571001 8.2;
Where you see strings of Xs in the above
SETINIT program you will see a specific site number, expiration
date, and password in a functioning SETINIT file. I have removed
the specifics in the file about for purposes of publishing this
example in this article.
- Open SAS 8.2. Highlight and copy the text
of the SETINIT file in your word processor or text editor.
Paste this text into the SAS editor window as seen below:
- Highlight all the SETINIT information in
the SAS Editor and click on the “Run” button on the top
toolbar. The “Run” button is the button with the “running man”
found fourth in from the right hand side of the toolbar at the
top of the SAS client. SAS should run PROC SETINIT and your
license information should be updated through the expiration
date of this SETINIT file. This date can be found in the
EXPIRE=”XXxxxXXXX” string on the fourth line from the top in
the SETINIT file.
After Expiration: Command Line SETINIT Renewal
After the grace period expires in SAS 8.2,
SAS will no longer open when you attempt to access it either
through shortcuts or from the Start menu. If your SAS
installation has passed this date, you will no longer be able to
update your SAS license using the PROC SETINIT procedure detailed
above. The only option for the SAS user faced with this
predicament is to update the SAS SETINIT from the command prompt.
Though it involves some non-SAS steps, this
renewal need not be complicated. All that is needed is a command
prompt in your Windows operating system and copy of the SAS
SETINIT file, preferably on floppy disk. The procedure detailed
below assumes that all necessary files are on a floppy disk and
that your computer’s floppy disk drive is A:\.
- Copy the following folder and files to a
floppy disk:
SETINIT.SAS (this is the SETINIT.SSS file
with a different file extension)
SETINIT.EXE
Commandline.txt
SAS_files folder
- Open the commandline.txt file in a word
processor or text editor such as Notepad you should find the
following:
"c:\program files\sas institute\sas\v8\sas.exe"
-config "c:\program files\sas institute\sas\v8\sasv8.cfg" -sysin
a:\setinit.sas -setinit –noautoexec
- Copy the commandline.txt file text to a
Run window. To acquire a Run window, click on the Start button
and then select the Run option from the Start menu. Paste the
command line text into the Run window and click the OK button.
This should successfully update your SAS
installation if your grace period has expired.
Contact Us!
If there are any
problems with this procedure, please contact Research and
Statistical Support at x2140 or x4066.
Please contact Research and Statistical
Support for the Website address, username, and password in order
to access the most current version of the SETINIT file and the
files necessary to run the command line update once the SAS grace
period has expired. Happy computing!
For More Information
Applying the SAS System SETINIT in the
Microsoft Windows Environment (in PDF format):
http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/admindoc/setinit/WIN612.1.pdf
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