A hot fix provides a new configuration property, sas.studio.abandonedSessionTimeout.

When a SAS Studio session is inactive, or abandoned, in the user interface, the SAS Studio session and related compute sessions time out and are then cleaned up based on the value that you set for the sas.studio.abandonedSessionTimeout property. The default value is 5 minutes. So, if the UI is inactive for 5 minutes, the session is then timed out. However, the server.servlet.session.timeout value is observed instead when the server.servlet.session.timeout value is set for a time period that is less than 5 minutes.

For the Basic edition, the sas.studio.abandonedSessionTimeout property is set in the config.properties file. For the Enterprise edition, the sas.studio.abandonedSessionTimeout property is set in SAS^® Environment Manager.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note for a link to instructions about accessing and applying the software update.

Operating System and Release Information

Viya on Windows: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Windows Deployment Guide at

Viya on Linux: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Linux Deployment Guide at