To fully use
the capabilities of the SAS®9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform,
you can convert existing
SAS/IntrNet applications into SAS Stored
Processes. Many features are implemented in the SAS Stored Process
Server and the SAS Stored Process Web application to minimize the
code changes that are required during a conversion. Existing
SAS/IntrNet
Application Dispatcher programs can usually be converted to streaming
stored processes with minimal or no modifications. This appendix explains
how to perform such a conversion and discusses some of the differences
between Application Dispatcher programs and stored processes.
SAS/IntrNet Application
Dispatcher programs execute very much like a stored process Web application.
Although Application Dispatcher is only one component of
SAS/IntrNet,
applications that use Application Dispatcher are the most likely candidates
for conversion to stored processes, because these applications execute
SAS programs with features that are very similar to stored processes.
This appendix focuses only on the conversion of Application Dispatcher
programs to stored processes.
SAS/IntrNet continues
to be supported, but the stored process framework is a new architecture
designed specifically for the SAS®9 platform.
You should convert
SAS/IntrNet
applications to use stored processes if you want to use the following
features:
-
SAS programs in other clients,
such as SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Report Studio, or Microsoft
Office applications
-
the common security model that
is provided by metadata
-
the centralized administration
that is provided by metadata integration and SAS Management Console
Note: This appendix focuses on
converting
SAS/IntrNet programs to stored processes that run in the
SAS Stored Process Web Application. If you want to run these programs
in other stored process clients (such as SAS Web Report Studio or
the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office), there might be additional configuration
issues. Each client application has its own requirements for stored
process behavior.