VS Code SAS extension + SAS OnDemand for Academics: IOM CreateObjectByServer 0x80004005

Calma — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:12:45 GMT

Hello all,

I am (unsuccessfully) trying to connect Visual Studio Code to SAS OnDemand for Academics using the official SAS extension on Windows and a SAS 9.4 (remote - IOM) profile.

What I have already done:

Installed SAS Providers for OLE DB
Installed SAS Integration Technologies Client
Confirmed the Integration Technologies DLLs are present
Confirmed port 8591 is reachable from my machine
Tested both EU workspace hosts:
- odaws01-euw1.oda.sas.com
- odaws02-euw1.oda.sas.com
Tested both login forms:
- my email address
- my numeric SODA username
Tested with and without a custom interopLibraryFolderPath
Tested with VPN disconnected
I can sign in to SAS Studio in the browser successfully in the EUW1 environment

My VS Code run still fails before the SAS session starts (Unspecified error). In Developer Tools I consistently get an error like this:

<description>Unspecified error</description>
<status>0x80004005</status>
<sasmachinednsname>odaws01-euw1.oda.sas.com</sasmachinednsname>
<sasport>8591</sasport>
<sasclassid>440196d4-90f0-11d0-9f41-00a024bb830c</sasclassid>
<sasprogid>SAS.Workspace.1.0</sasprogid>
<name>ITC IOM Bridge</name>

This is then followed by:
Setup error: You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

Has anyone seen this with SAS OnDemand for Academics specifically, and/or can you confirm whether my environment/account should support the VS Code remote-IOM connection path?

Thank you very much

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