Problem Note 40701: The SAS® Information Delivery Portal web application cannot communicate with other SAS® web applications
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The SAS Information Delivery Portal might have problems communicating with other SAS web applications (for example, the SAS Stored Process web application) when there are multiple servers defined in the IBM WebSphere application server and when the portal is moved to a different server.
You must manually change the IBM WebSphere session cookie name after you move the SAS Information Delivery Portal web application from one IBM WebSphere server to a different server. This change is necessary because the WebSphere cookie name is assigned based on the server name.
In order for the SAS® Information Delivery Portal to work properly after it is moved to a new WebSphere server, you must modify the web.xml file within the deployed instance of the portal and set the following parameter to reflect the correct server name:
The syntax for the WebSphere cookie name is JSESSIONIDserver-name. In the example above, the server name is SASServer1. So, for example, if the portal application is moved to a server called Baseball, then you must change JSESSIONIDSASServer1 to JSESSIONIDBaseball.
In addition to making this change in the location of the deployed portal web application, you must also change the server name in the <init-param> element of the web.xml.orig file, which resides in SAS-installation-directory\SASInformationDeliveryPortal\4.2\Configurable\wars\sas.portal\WEB-INF. You must make this change to ensure that the server name is retained in the event that the SASPortal4.3.ear file is ever rebuilt and redeployed.
The original element within the web.xml.orig file looks similar to the following example:
You must change the parameter so that it reflects the new server name (Baseball). Change the value from ##SESSION_COOKIE_NAME## to JSESSIONIDBaseball, as shown here:
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Information Delivery Portal | z/OS | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows Vista | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Linux | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||