topic SIGNON to maiframe from EG in SAS Enterprise Guide

SIGNON to maiframe from EG

Jaheuk — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:53:55 GMT

dear all,
in a normal SAS session i use code below:
FILENAME RLINK 'c:\data\sas\tcpip\tcpaxa.SCR';
OPTIONS COMAMID=TCP REMOTE=PRDSYS;
SIGNON;

IF i put this code in a 'program' in an eGuide project, it does NOT work (=ask for userid & passw) !!
IS this not possible in eGuide??

Regards,
Herman

Re: SIGNON to maiframe from EG

LinusH — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:20:28 GMT

This could work if you run it when EG is using a local SAS installation as a server.
Chances are that your site prefers that you work directly with mainframe SAS. In this case, your EG session should login via a SAS metadata server, and your code will run in a SAS workspace server, on the mainframe.
I suggest that you contact your SAS admin on the mainframe for connection details.

/Linus

Re: SIGNON to maiframe from EG

SASKiwi — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:22:15 GMT

Please confirm if your SAS signon program is being run on the same SAS server or not for both the "normal SAS session" and your EGP version. If you are not running this program on the same servers then you could get different results.

Re: SIGNON to maiframe from EG

TomKari — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:07:12 GMT

I'm not very knowledgeable on this but my colleagues have told me that SAS/Connect (which is what does the signon) doesn't play well with the Integration Technologies used by Enterprise Guide. If you don't get it working quickly, you should probably throw it to Tech. Support.

Re: SIGNON to maiframe from EG

Patrick — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:10:07 GMT

Tom

You shouldn't believe everything your colleagues tell you.

The rsubmit command (mp connect) is issued on the SAS Server. EG has nothing to do with it except of sending all the code to the SAS Server and retrieving the result.

Cheers
Patrick