As an avid developer of SAS Stored Process Web Applications, the Macbook Pro is my development machine of choice.  Since building a macro to programmatically create STPs, I’ve had few reasons to launch a VM to use client tools - but today I actually did need to use SAS Management Console (SMC).

Still - who says a client tool has to be run from a client?  It’s actually possible to launch SMC from your SAS Server, and here are the steps you need to make:

1 - Enable X11 forwarding

Open /private/etc/ssh/sshconfig and uncomment / change the following values:

#   ForwardAgent no
#   ForwardX11 no

to:

   ForwardAgent yes
   ForwardX11 yes

Next, open /private/etc/ssh/sshdconfig and uncomment / change the following value from:

#  X11Forwarding no

to:

   X11Forwarding yes

2 - Download Xquartz

This can be downloaded directly from here, or via the following command in terminal:

brew cask install xquartz

3 - Launch Management Console

If it does not work immediately, try opening a new shell or performing a restart.  The commands will be along the lines of:

ssh -Y [email protected]
cd /pub/sas/SASManagementConsole/9.4
./sasmcconsole

and - voila:

If building web applications with SAS is something you’d like to try, then check out this quick guide (or in depth <a href=”https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/1091-2017.pdf” target=”blank”>paper). 

Alternatively, if you’re just the type of person who loves to learn about all things SAS, then come visit sasensei.com!

Chat soon..

/Allan