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What's New Table of Contents

What's New in SAS Integration Technologies 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.2, and 9.1.3

Overview

SAS Integration Technologies includes the following enhancements.

• Performance and scalability improvements
• Use of the SAS Metadata Server to store configuration information
• Support for creating Web services
• Enhanced SAS Stored Processes
• New SAS Foundation Services
• The new SAS Web Infrastructure Kit
• Event publishing capabilities
• Messaging interface updates
• The new SAS Integration Technologies Server Administrator's Guide.

Note:

• This section describes the features of SAS Integration Technologies that are new or enhanced since SAS 8.2.
• z/OS is the successor to the OS/390 operating system. SAS Integration Technologies is supported on both OS/390 and z/OS operating systems and, throughout this document, any reference to z/OS also applies to OS/390, unless otherwise stated.

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Details

SAS Metadata Server

The SAS Metadata Server stores configuration information for servers and other SAS Integration Technologies resources, and SAS Management Console is used to administer this information.

Web Services

Support is provided for creating Web services that implement the XML for Analysis Version 1.1 interface to call SAS Stored Processes.

With SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 4, SAS BI Web Services for Java can be secured using trusted Web server authentication. This provides a way for SAS BI Web Services for Java to identify the calling user by using basic Web server authentication.

SAS Stored Processes

SAS Stored Processes can operate on a SAS Stored Process Server to produce streaming output for use in Web applications. You can use SAS Stored Processes in the following ways.

• Use the SAS Stored Process Web Application to execute a stored process and return the results to a browser.
• Use the StoredProcessService application programming interface (API) to invoke stored processes from Java applications, JavaServer Pages, servlets, and custom tag sets.
• A SAS Stored Process can be invoked from the SAS Information Delivery Portal.

With SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 2, the property page of the SAS Stored Process Web Application includes new interactive features.

SAS Foundation Services

SAS Foundation Services is a new set of core infrastructure services that Java programmers can use to write applications that are integrated with the SAS platform. The services provide dynamic service discovery, user authentication, profile management, session context management, metadata and content repository access, and activity logging. Extension services for event management, information publishing, stored process execution, and enhanced IOM client connection are also provided.

You can use the Foundation Services Manager plug-in to SAS Management Console to configure service deployments and services, and you can use the Application Monitor plug-in to monitor the activities and performance of applications that are enabled by SAS Foundation Services.

Foundation Services 1.2 includes BI Manager, which is a new SAS Management Console plug-in. BI Manager provides a common interface for the administration of SAS BI objects, including information maps, stored processes, reports, and data explorations. BI Manager also provides the ability to promote BI metadata and related content.

Integrated Object Model (IOM) Server

The Integrated Object Model (IOM) server includes the following enhancements.

• The IOM server has been re-engineered to take advantage of the new Threaded Kernel (TK) technology in SAS®9. This enhancement reduces response time for IOM client applications that access Component Object Model (COM) servers and IOM Bridge servers. The enhancement is transparent and does not require changes to server configurations or to client programs.
• New load-balancing options in the IOM server configuration model enable more efficient deployment of server processes across machines.
• A new Windows Object Manager enables clients to interact with multiple types of IOM servers. The new service creates and manages objects for four "flavors" of IOM servers: SAS Workspace Servers, SAS Metadata Servers, SAS Stored Process Servers, and SAS OLAP Servers.
• A new Java Connection Service (part of SAS Foundation Services) enables clients to interact with multiple types of IOM servers.
  • This new service creates and manages objects for four "flavors" of IOM servers: SAS Workspace Servers, SAS Metadata Servers, SAS Stored Process Servers, and SAS OLAP Servers.
  • This service also provides pooling and server failover scalability features and support for load-balancing spawners.
• At this time, SAS Integration Technologies 9 and later does not support the use of Object Request Brokers (ORBs) under the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) on server platforms, nor does it support communication with client ORBs using the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP).
• For COM and DCOM launched servers, all file access verifications are now performed only with the user ID under which the server was launched. The additional level of security checking, which was based on the client user ID, has been removed. Before upgrading to SAS Integration Technologies 9 or later, the security policies at the following sites should be reviewed.
  • Sites that launch COM workspace servers by using the "this user" identity setting in the DCOM configuration utility
  • Sites that use COM+ pooling.

  For more details, see the Windows Security section in the SAS Integration Technologies Developer's Guide at support.sas.com/rnd/itech/doc9/dev_guide/index.html .

Security

SAS Integration Technologies now uses the following new security features that are provided with SAS Open Metadata Architecture.

• SAS Management Console User Manager plug-in and SAS Personal Login Manager for registering SAS users, groups, and login information in a SAS Metadata Repository.
• SAS Management Console Authorization Manager plug-in for setting access controls in a SAS Metadata Repository.
• The host operating environment's authentication provider to authenticate users of IOM servers. As an alternative, you can authenticate users of SAS Metadata Servers and OLAP servers by using an LDAP directory server or a Microsoft Active Directory server.

SAS Web Infrastructure Kit

The new SAS Web Infrastructure Kit provides an infrastructure for creating Web applications that use portal technology by including the following items.

• SAS Java components, Web infrastructure components, and a services infrastructure
• A portal Web application shell that provides page navigation, portlet rendering, log-on and log-off capability, metadata searching, bookmarking, personalization, and content administration features
• Predefined portlets for content viewing and file structure navigation
• A portlet development kit, which includes an API and a set of best practices, for developing custom portlets
• Administrative tools for deploying services, portlets, themes, global preferences, and additional Web applications.

The SAS Web Infrastructure Kit provides the infrastructure for the SAS Information Delivery Portal product.

The following enhancements have been made to the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit:

• In SAS 9.1.3, the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit includes the capability to run the remote SAS Services application as a Windows service. This capability is enabled through the use of the Java Service Wrapper from Tanuki Software, which is provided with SAS Foundation Services.
• In SAS 9.1.3, the IBM WebSphere servlet container is now a supported platform for the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit.
• In SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 2, the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit includes new tools that content administrators can use to delete shared pages and page templates from the metadata repository.
• In SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 2, the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit includes a new theme called SAS Winter, which administrators can use as a basis for creating new themes. In addition, the style sheets that are included in the themes have been modified.
• In SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 3 and Service Pack 4, the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit includes modifications to the theme templates and style sheets.

Publishing Framework

The Publishing Framework includes the following enhancements.

• Publication of packages to a channel supports subscribers who specify the webDAV transport (in addition to queue and e-mail), and a default webDAV server can be specified in the channel definition.
• The Publishing Framework plug-in to SAS Management Console enables channel and subscription information to be administered on a SAS Metadata Server.
• New CALL routines use the new Event Services API to enable the publication of an event, which provides support for dynamic event-driven processes.
• The SAS Package Reader application provides improved viewing of large tables.
• The SAS Subscription Manager application contains the following enhancements.
  • The My Subscriptions and My Groups windows provide pop-up menus that are activated by right-clicking a window item.
  • You can specify name and value exclusion filters in addition to inclusion filters.
  • Name and value pairs are listed in ascending alphabetical order.
  • The application now recognizes the groups to which a subscriber is associated.

Messaging Interfaces

The Messaging interfaces include the following enhancements.

• The Common Messaging Interface supports the certified message delivery features of the TIBCO Rendezvous software and does not require a field identifier for messages from TIBCO Rendezvous. In addition, the Common Messaging Interface provides support for headers and libraries that are included in TIBCO Rendezvous Version 7.1 for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, AIX 5.1, HP Tru64 UNIX, HP-UX 11.0, Linux, and Solaris 8.
• The WebSphere MQ (formerly named MQSeries) Messaging Interface provides support for the following software versions.
  • IBM WebSphere MQ Version 5.3 under Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and z/OS
  • IBM WebSphere MQ Client Version 5.2 under HP-UX 11.0, Solaris 8, and AIX 5.1
  • IBM WebSphere MQ Version 5.2 under Linux.
• Beginning with SAS 9.0 Integration Technologies, the Geneva Message Queuing (GMQ) Interface is not provided.

Documentation Enhancements

Documentation for administering servers has been moved from the SAS Integration Technologies Administrator's Guide to the new SAS Integration Technologies Server Administrator's Guide.

For SAS 9.1.3, the following documentation changes have been made:

• The new SAS Intelligence Platform: Application Server Administration Guide provides server administration documentation for the SAS Intelligence Platform. To access this document, go to http://support.sas.com/913administration.

  For customers who are not using the SAS Intelligence Platform, server administration information continues to be available in the SAS Integration Technologies Server Administrator's Guide.

• The SAS Web Infrastructure Kit Administrator's Guide has been removed. Documentation for administering the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit and the SAS Information Delivery Portal is now located in the new SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide, which can be accessed at http://support.sas.com/913administration.