{"id":4073,"date":"2014-05-26T02:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2014-05-26T02:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:45:48","slug":"adventures-with-enterprise-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/adventures-with-enterprise-miner\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures with Enterprise Miner"},"content":{"rendered":"

New semester coming up when I will be teaching data mining. \u00a0Because I never do anything at the last minute, I’m registering my course and testing the SAS on-demand for Enterprise Miner now.<\/p>\n

I have learned from experience not to ignore it when the instructions say to check your configuration. You should find how to do that here.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/support.sas.com\/ondemand\/emconfig.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The first step is to open a command window and see if you have the appropriate Java Runtime Environment installed (JRE). Haven’t had to do anything from a C\u00a0prompt in a while. On Windows 7, go to the start window at the bottom left of the screen and type in Command in the search box. Command prompt should pop right up.<\/p>\n

I followed the instructions and it seemed my JRE was hunky-dory but the first time I started SAS On-Demand with Enterprise Miner it told me my Java was out of date. I went ahead and downloaded the latest version and installed it.<\/p>\n

Your mileage may vary but total time getting up and running was about 2 minutes – but don’t get excited yet.<\/p>\n

I clicked on start SAS Enterprise Miner and I got this message<\/p>\n

\"Security<\/a><\/p>\n

I clicked RUN anyway but it was blocked from running.<\/p>\n

So … I went into the control panel, typed in Java to search the control panel and in the Java security settings added the SAS on-demand login site as an exception. Still no luck.<\/p>\n

Next, I went and changed the Java security settings from high to medium. A lot of people would not feel comfortable doing this, but I at least wanted to get Enterprise Miner to work. I could always set it back later.<\/p>\n

At this point, I actually got Enterprise Miner to sort of start. That is, there were a couple of screens of security warnings I had to accept and then I got this error message.<\/p>\n

\"error1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After this message, I got another saying the components failed to load.<\/p>\n

\"failed<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps, I thought, I should not have updated Java. So, I went back to the configuration instructions, checked to make sure I had a 32-bit JRE even though I have a 64-bit computer (check).<\/p>\n

I went and downloaded the recommended version of the JRE from the Oracle site which required me to create an Oracle ID.<\/p>\n

After that was downloaded and installed, I went to the Java control panel and disabled the later version so only one version of Java was installed …<\/p>\n

and I got the same error!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I checked the SAS documentation and it recommended clearing the Java cache. I did that. I got further that time with\u00a0lots of messages about downloading the application and verifying the application, but just when I was getting excited, it came up and asked me if I wanted to run with an older version of Java. I picked to continue with the older version. After some more security warnings, I got the same error messages as before.<\/p>\n

So … I went through the whole circle again, cleared the cache, started again, selected the newer version of Java – and still the same messages.<\/p>\n

It’s past midnight on Memorial Day weekend, so I’m not going to bother calling SAS technical support. I have a laptop running Windows 8, so I’m going to try installing it on that tomorrow and see if I have any better luck.<\/p>\n

One thing is pretty clear – my students in the fall better have a lot more familiarity with computers than just pointing and clicking or they are going to have a really hard time – and I still haven’t gotten Enterprise Miner to run!<\/p>\n

P.S. At one time, years ago, I had gotten SAS Enterprise Miner to run with version 1.6.0_18 \u00a0 \u00a0so I tried that and it also failed to start with the same error messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m running on boot camp on a Mac. \u00a0I have a Windows laptop, so I’ll try it on that tomorrow also and see what happens.<\/p>\n

I am suspecting this is going to be a disaster, but I’m hoping to be mistaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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