SAS® Analytics Platform is designed to use the configured Shared Platform port (port 6099, by default) for all communication from the SAS Analytics Platform server to SAS clients. However, the SAS Analytics Platform server might have problems communicating with clients if a random port number is used.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
A fix is not currently available for SAS Enterprise Miner 5.3. However, following the steps below allows SAS Enterprise Miner 5.3 to work behind a firewall.
In addition to applying hot fix 12APCORE01 or 13APCORE02 to the SAS Analytics Platform server, you need to manually edit some control files. Whether you apply 12APCORE01 or 13APCORE02 depends on the version of the SAS Analytics Platform server you have installed. Please determine the version before applying the hot fix.
The easiest way to determine the version is to go to http://yourserver:6098
and click on the "Configuration" tab. Under the "Configuration" information,
there is a section labeled "Analytics Platform" that contains the version
number.
UNIX specific instructions:
Edit the apserver shell script. This is typically located at:
!SASROOT/SASAPCore/bin/apserver
You will need to add the following command line argument before the word
$OPTIONS in the last line of the script. Make sure there is one blank
space before and after this argument:
-Dap.rmi.socket.factory=com.sas.apps.session.server.APSocketFactoryRMI
Save the file and restart SAS Analytics Platform Server.
Windows specific instructions:
Edit the apstart.ini file. This is typically located at:
C:\Program Files\SAS\SASAPCore\bin\apstart.ini
Add this argument to the CommandLineArgs line, just after the argument
"-Xmx512m". Make sure there is one blank space before and after this
argument:
-Dap.rmi.socket.factory=com.sas.apps.session.server.APSocketFactoryRMI
Also edit the apserver.bat file. This is typically located at:
C:\Program Files\SAS\SASAPCore\bin\apserver.bat
Add this argument to the last line of the batch script, just after the
argument "-Xmx512m". Make sure there is one blank space before and after
this argument:
-Dap.rmi.socket.factory=com.sas.apps.session.server.APSocketFactoryRMI
Also edit the wrapper.conf file, which is used when SAS Analytics Platform server is installed as a Windows service. This is typically located at:
C:\Program Files\SAS\SASAPCore\conf\wrapper.conf
Locate the following line in the "Java Additional Parameters" section of the file:
wrapper.java.additional.8=-Dsas.app.class.dirs=../lib
Immediately after it, add this line:
wrapper.java.additional.9=-Dap.rmi.socket.factory=com.sas.apps.session.server.APSocketFactoryRMI
Save these files and restart the SAS Analytics Platform server.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | SAS Enterprise Miner | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.2 | |
| Windows Vista | 5.2 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 5.2 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 5.2 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 5.2 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 5.2 | |
| Linux | 5.2 | |
| Linux on Itanium | 5.2 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 5.2 | |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
