Performing Post-installation Tasks

General post-installation tasks for SAS Viya are in the deployment guide for your environment. Deployment guides for SAS Viya are available at https://support.sas.com//en/software/sas-viya.html.

After you install SAS Intelligent Decisioning, complete the following steps:

  1. Verify configuration properties.
  2. Configure publishing destinations.
  3. (Optional) Configure support for SQL query files.
  4. (Optional) Configure support for Python code files.
  5. (Optional) Configure support for parallel process nodes.
  6. (Optional) Configure support for advanced lists.
  7. (Optional) Set the creation_dttm values in the subject contacts database.
  8. (Optional) Set up third-party databases for subject contacts or treatments or both:
    1. Configure the subject contacts database or the treatment definition database or both databases.
    2. (Optional) Partition the subject contacts database.
  9. (Optional) Enable the check-out and commit feature.
  10. (Optional) Enable performance logging.
  11. (Optional) Enable enhanced error reporting.
  12. (Optional) Enable variable assignment logging.
  13. (Optional) Configure SAS Workflow.
  14. (Optional) Transfer content to the new environment.
  15. (Optional) Enable lookup tables to be reloaded automatically.
  16. Verify that permissions are correct for your site.
Last updated: May 18, 2026