Moving and Accessing SAS Files across Operating Environments

Connecting Local and Remote Sessions

A local host sign on to a remote host establishes a connection between your local SAS session and a remote SAS session. You invoke SAS/CONNECT on a remote host by means of a TELNET daemon or a spawner program. The spawner program runs on the remote host and listens for client requests for connection to the remote host.

Here is a typical sign on:

options comamid=access-method remote=host-id 
  cscript=script-file;
signon;

where:

COMAMID=

specifies the communication access method identifier that is used for passing data between the two hosts.

REMOTE=

designates the name of the remote host that you want to access.

CSCRIPT=

optionally specifies the script file to be used for sign on. The need for a sign-on script is dependent on the access method that is used to communicate between hosts and the method that is used to invoke SAS/CONNECT. The same script that is used to sign on is usually also used at sign off.

Note: Omit the CSCRIPT= option when using a spawner program to invoke SAS/CONNECT. [cautionend]

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