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Calcite | Level 5

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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