SAS Management Console job scheduling plugin file event shows greyed out browse button

Issue:

SAS Management Console job scheduling plugin file event shows greyed out browse button. This is a Linux server tier with SAS 9.4 M2 and Platform Process Manager 9.1 as scheduler. SMC Job Scheduling plugin does not show 'Browse' button enabled on New File Event dialog as attached in screenshot.

Screenshot:

Solution:

The Platform Process Manager was not associated to the same machine as the WorkSpace server (the SAS Application Server). Using metabrowse edit mode metadata was updated for PM so it would have same machine name as WS.

The SAS Application Server is what is used to browse the file system. If the AppServer cannot be connected to then it will not be able to use the remote browse dialog. There should be a workspace server running on the machine where PM is defined and running. You can check this in metadata by opening an interactive SAS session and running the METABROWSE command in the command box. If your SAS session does not have all the proper META* options set, you will be prompted to enter them; once you have done so, you will see a metadata browser window. Starting from the Foundation icon, expand the tree and look at the following items. The point is that both the Platform Process Manager server and a Workspace Server should be defined on the same AssociatedMachine object, and you should be able to see the same machine under both of these, and should be able to see the servers under the Machine's DeployedComponents.

Foundation -> ServerComponent -> Platform Process Manager -> AssociatedMachine

Foundation -> ServerComponent -> SASApp - Workspace Server -> AssociatedMachine

Foundation -> Machine -> <target host> -> DeployedComponents

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