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Question: Is it possible to highlight syntax in Notepad ++ for SAS Program and run it directly from Notepad++. Somehow I have found info about SAS color coding in notepad++, however is there a way to run SAS code from it? Answer: Yes there is way to run SAS code from Notepad++. 1. Make Notepad++ as your default app to open .SAS file which is your SAS program file. To do that right click on any of .SAS file and choose "Open With...". Then choose Notepad++ and check the "Always use this app" checkbox. Do the same for SAS log file .log file and .lst file which is not mandatory. 2. To run SAS program from Notepad++, press F5 or in the menu bar click Run -> Run..., it will open a Run dailog box. In the input feild, use the following command: "C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe" -sysin "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" -log "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\$(NAME_PART).log" -print "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\$(NAME_PART).lst" ...

Question: We have installed SAS 9.4 M4 Visual Analytics (VA) on a single Windows 2008 server. We need to change the password for the sasevdb user. How to change password? Should this be done using the SAS Deployment Manager (SDM)? How can we reset the Postgres password ? Answer: All the SAS account password should be changed with the SAS Deployment Manager. Password can be changed using Deployment manager for every single component that is part of the deployment. Once you use SAS Deployment Manager to reset the password, you need to restart the environment. This is the general rule in SAS. Eventually, there could be some additional configuration file missing from this change. Therefore you may need to use grep utility. File handled by each maintanance differes and there are more files handled by the SAS Deployment Manger Change password tool. So for your need just with the SDM should be enough for putting the system to be working again. However I would suggest you to use gr...