I've been trying to create a connection to a MySQL RDS on a SAS platform hosted on linux.
Now let me first say I can connect to said MySQL on a windows SAS platform. I simply create the ODBC connection in the OS and then create a library using the dsn.
On the linux platform I am getting the error:
ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection: [unixODBC][MySQL][ODBC 5.2(w) Driver]Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.
Because this on a linux machine I havent set the dsn in the ODBC.ini file. But have been in touch with the admin to try various configurations like using the IP or the full dns.
Also, the MySQL DB is available via other software in the linux environment.
Has anyone encountered this, and more to the point solved it?
Many thanks