UNIX and Linux SAS^® administrators, have you ever been greeted by one of these statements as you walk into the office before you have gotten your first cup of coffee? Power outage! SAS servers are down. I cannot access my reports. Have you frantically tried to restart the SAS servers to avoid loss of productivity and missed one of the steps in the process, causing further delays while other work continues to pile up? If you have had this experience, you understand the benefit to be gained from a utility that automates the management of these multi-tiered deployments. Until recently, there was no method for automatically starting and stopping multi-tiered services in an orchestrated fashion. Instead, you had to use time-consuming manual procedures to manage SAS services. These procedures were also prone to human error, which could result in corrupted services and additional time lost, debugging and resolving issues injected by this process. To address this challenge, SAS Technical Support created the SAS Local Services Management (SAS_lsm) utility, which provides automated, orderly management of your SAS^® multi-tiered deployments. The intent of this paper is to demonstrate the deployment and usage of the SAS_lsm utility. Now, go grab a coffee, and let's see how SAS_lsm can make life less chaotic.

Investors usually trade stocks or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on a methodology, such as a theory, a model, or a specific chart pattern. There are more than 10,000 securities listed on the US stock market. Picking the right one based on a methodology from so many candidates is usually a big challenge. This paper presents the methodology based on the CANSLIM1 theorem and momentum trading (MT) theorem. We often hear of the cup and handle shape (C&H), double bottoms and multiple bottoms (MB), support and resistance lines (SRL), market direction (MD), fundamental analyses (FA), and technical analyses (TA). Those are all covered in CANSLIM theorem. MT is a trading theorem based on stock moving direction or momentum. Both theorems are easy to learn but difficult to apply without an appropriate tool. The brokers' application system usually cannot provide such filtering due to its complexity. For example, for C&H, where is the handle located? For the MB, where is the last bottom you should trade at? Now, the challenging task can be fulfilled through SAS^®. This paper presents the methods on how to apply the logic and graphically present them though SAS. All SAS users, especially those who work directly on capital market business, can benefit from reading this document to achieve their investment goals. Much of the programming logic can also be adopted in SAS finance packages for clients.

Production forecasts that are based on data analytics are able to capture the character of the patterns that are created by past behavior of wells and reservoirs. Future trends are a reflection of past trends unless operating principles have changed. Therefore, the forecasts are more accurate than the monotonous, straight line that is provided by decline curve analysis (DCA). The patterns provide some distinct advantages: they provide a range instead of an absolute number, and the periods of high and low performance can be used for better planning. When used together with DCA, the current method of using data driven production forecasting can certainly enhance the value tremendously for the oil and gas industry, especially in times of volatility in the global oil and gas industry.

Many organizations need to analyze large numbers of time series that have time-varying or frequency-varying properties (or both). The time-varying properties can include time-varying trends, and the frequency-varying properties can include time-varying periodic cycles. Time-frequency analysis simultaneously analyzes both time and frequency; it is particularly useful for monitoring time series that contain several signals of differing frequency. These signals are commonplace in data that are associated with the internet of things. This paper introduces techniques for large-scale time-frequency analysis and uses SAS^® Forecast Server and SAS/ETS^® software to demonstrate these techniques.