Starting SAS® Studio produces a warning message that your system is scheduled to expire or is expired


Starting SAS Studio might produce a warning message that says your SAS® software has expired or that it is going to expire. Here is an example of the latter message:


WARNING: Your system is scheduled to expire on date which is number days from now. The SAS System will no longer function on or after that date. Please contact your SAS Installation Representative to obtain your updated SAS Installation Data (SID) file, which includes SETINIT information.

Workaround

To circumvent this issue, renew the SAS software on the machine that SAS Studio connects to. This machine contains the SAS® Foundation installation.

To determine which machine SAS Studio connects to, complete the following steps:

  1. Submit the following SAS code in SAS Studio:

proc setinit; run; 
  %let sasroot=%sysget(sasroot);
  %put &=sasroot; 
  %put hostname: &systcpiphostname;

 

2. Then, check the Log window for the host name, SAS site number, and platform on which SAS is executing. Alternatively, the machine name might be listed in the URL used to start SAS Studio.

3. Close all SAS Studio sessions.

4. Once the machine that SAS Studio connects to has been identified, do the following to renew the license and resolve the warning or expiration message:

    1. On the machine that SAS Studio connects to, run the Renew SAS Software utility and select the SID file for the current SAS site number. Renewal instructions are available in SAS KB0036286, "License file renewal instructions for SAS® 9.4 (TS1M3) and later SAS® 9.4 personal installations in Microsoft Windows operating environments."

    2. If SAS is installed on your local Windows workstation and you have SAS Studio Single User, then in your system tray right-click the SAS Studio Controller  and choose Stop Server. Alternately, reboot your Windows machine.

    3. If SAS is installed in a Microsoft Windows Server operating environment, restart the following Windows Services:
      1. SASStudio Spawner
      2. SASStudioWebAppServer

For instructions, see the Starting and Stopping the SAS Object Spawner and the SAS Web Application Server section in the SAS® Studio 3.5: Administrator's Guide, Second Edition.