What's New in SAS Interface to Application Response Measurement (ARM)

In SAS 9.2, the SAS ARM interface uses the SAS logging facility to enhance and simplify gathering performance data for analysis. The SAS logging facility is a flexible and configurable framework that you can use to collect, categorize, and filter events, and write them to a variety of output devices. The SAS 9.2 ARM interface offers two logging methods, the SAS logging facility and the ARM log. The SAS ARM interface contains the following new features:

• APPNAME or APPLNAME, which specifies the application name

• ARM appender, which processes ARM transaction events and sends the events to a specified output destination

• default correlators, which are used to track parent and child transactions

• default user metrics, which are used to measure start, update, and stop times

• performance macros, which contain default user metrics

• SAS logging facility, which enables more flexibility and control of the ARM log locations and message formats

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