I recently had trouble getting my display manager session to open using my preferences. The WSAVE command didn't work. With the help of Gretel at SAS tech support, I found the problem and thought the solution was worth sharing:

<=== Page: 1 === Gretel Easter === note === 23Aug2002 17:47:54 ===>

Sharon,

Please try this. Close your SAS session. Then at the Unix prompt, type:

ps -u userid

where 'userid' is your real userid. You will get a list of processes that are running. In the last column of the output, check to see if any of the processes are SAS processes. If so, please kill them using

kill -9 pid

where 'pid' is the real pid that you see associated with the SAS process. Then open a new SAS session and resize your window, use WSAVE to save it, and let me know if that solves the problem.

If it turns out that you don't have any SAS sessions running when you run the ps command, then it may very well be that your profile catalog has become corrupted. In that case, the thing to do is to move it out of the way and let SAS create a new one for you. Here is the method:

cd $HOME/sasuser.800 mv profile.sas7bcat profile.old

Then start SAS (which will automatically create a new profile catalog) and resize and save your window.

Please let me know how it goes.

Best regards, Gretel.