Starting SAS Data Integration Studio
Problem
You want to start SAS
Data Integration Studio.
Solution
Start SAS Data Integration
Studio as you would any other SAS application on a given platform.
You can specify one or more options in the Start command
or in the
distudio.ini file. For more
information, see the following tasks:
For more information
about command-line arguments for SAS client applications, administrators
should see the SAS Intelligence Platform Desktop Application
Administration Guide.
Tasks
Start SAS Data Integration Studio
Under Microsoft Windows,
you can select Start
ProgramsSASSAS Data Integration Studio.
ProgramsSASSAS Data Integration Studio.
You can also start the
application from a command line. Navigate to the SAS Data Integration
Studio installation directory and issue the
distudio.exe command.
If you do not specify
any options, SAS Data Integration Studio uses the parameters specified
in the
distudio.ini file. The following
sections contain information about options that you can specify on
the command line or add to the distudio.ini file.
Specify Java Options
To specify
the Java options when you start SAS Data Integration Studio, add a
JavaArgs_ line in the
distudio.ini file. For example, adding the following two lines specifies the locale as Japanese: JavaArgs_13=-Duser.language=ja JavaArgs_14=-Duser.country=JP
Specify the Plug-in Location
By default,
SAS Data Integration Studio looks for plug-ins in a
plugins directory
under the directory in which the application was installed. If you
are starting SAS Data Integration Studio from another location, you
must specify the location of the plug-in directory. Edit your distudio.ini file
to include the additional Java argument -DAddPluginDir to
point to the plug-in folder. Here is an example:
JavaArgs_15=-DAddPluginDir="c:\plugins"Specify the Error Log Location
By default, SAS Data Integration
Studio writes error information to a file named
errorlog.txt in
the working directory, such as C:\Users\user_ID\AppData\Roaming.
Because each SAS Data Integration Studio session overwrites this log,
you might want to specify a different name or location for the log
file. Use the following option to change the error logging location: distudio –logfile
'<relative_filepath/filename>'The relative_filepath is
relative to the working directory unless you redirect the local files
created by SAS Data Integration Studio.
Redirect Local Files Created by SAS Data Integration Studio
By default, SAS Data
Integration Studio stores the log files, application default files,
and connection profiles on the local host. To change the default storage
location, follow these steps:
-
Close SAS Data Integration Studio.
-
Create the path and directory for the client files.
-
Open the file
distudio.iniand add the following Java argument:JavaArgs_xx=-Dsas.appdatapath="new_path"
where xx is the next available Java argument number, and new_path is a fully qualified path to the new directory. Here is an example:JavaArgs_12=-Dsas.appdatapath="\\adminServer02\DISClientFiles\Hostd17362"
Note that a "SAS DataIntegrationStudio/version number" folder is created in the path that you specified. This folder is the new log location. -
Start SAS Data Integration Studio.
Specify Message Logging
You can specify the server status messages that are
encountered in a SAS Data Integration Studio session by using the
–MessageLevel level_value
option. Valid values for level_value are
listed in the following table.
|
Value
|
Description
|
|---|---|
|
ALL
|
All messages are logged.
|
|
CONFIG
|
Static configuration
messages are logged.
|
|
FINE
|
Basic tracing information
is logged.
|
|
FINER
|
More detailed tracing
information is logged.
|
|
FINEST
|
Highly detailed tracing
information is logged. Specify this option to debug problems with
SAS server connections.
|
|
INFO
|
Informational messages
are logged.
|
|
OFF
|
No messages are logged.
|
|
SEVERE
|
Messages indicating
a severe failure are logged.
|
|
WARNING
|
Messages indicating
a potential problem are logged.
|
Change the Memory Allocated to SAS Data Integration Studio
The default
amount of memory allocated to SAS Data Integration Studio is 128 megabytes.
If you are using Citrix to access SAS Data Integration Studio, you
might want to decrease the amount of memory allocated as appropriate
for your environment.
There might be a number of reasons to increase the amount of memory for SAS Data Integration
Studio. For example, after running a job, if you click the Log tab
or the Output tab, and SAS Data Integration
Studio does not respond, you might need to increase the amount of
memory allocated to the application.
Edit the
distudio.ini file
(in the default location such as C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASDataIntegrationStudio\<version>)
by increasing the memory setting of the JavaArgs_1 parameter to 1024.
Add an additional argument to set the MaxPermsize option.
JavaArgs_1=Xmx1024m JavaArgs_13=-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
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Last updated: January 16, 2018