The SAS system requires the application of SETINIT information before your licensed software will run. This authorization process takes place whenever you contract to renew your existing SAS System license, or add additional products to your site license. Your SETINIT information should be applied when you receive new SETINIT data from SAS Contracts Customer Service.

You should not change the SETINIT information unless you are the SAS system administrator for your site.

To apply the SETINIT and update your SAS license, save a copy of the setinit.sas file sent to you by Contracts in the directory where you have SAS installed. Name the file setinit.sas . If you already have a file called setinit.sas in that directory, you can rename that file using the UMNIX mv command.

Next, while the directory where SAS is installed is your current directory, issue this command from the UNIX system prompt:

By doing this, you are running a batch SAS process (./sas), specifying the -setinit option, and using the setinit.sas file in the current directory as the program file.

When the process finishes, view the file called setinit.log that is in the current directory.

Check the log file for the following note:

If there are no errors in the log, you can disregard any other notes or warnings in the setinit.log file. If you do find error messages, check the setinit.sas file for extraneous characters (such as misspellings, carriage returns or line feeds) that might have been introduced by editing the file. Make any corrections that are needed, save the file, and then execute the command above.

If you have questions about your SETINIT data, call our Contracts Customer Service Department at (919) 677-8003 between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

If you encounter problems applying your SETINIT and you are a U.S. or Canadian customer, please call SAS Technical Support at (919) 677-8008 between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Alternatively, you can use this form to open a track:

https://support.sas.com/en/technical-support/submit-a-support-request.lang.html

If you are a non-U.S./Canadian customer, contact your SAS Representative for the SAS office nearest you.

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