Hi, I am new to SAS DI and I got almost same issue.   I got error [SAS][ODBC SQL Server Wire Protocol driver]Socket closed; while  extracting data out of SQLServer and writing result set onto  sas7bdat SAS file on Linux machine.  It is not a long process. It took about 29 seconds and socket is closed.       I would like to test if adding SeedBeforeConnect option to ODBC work. however, i need to know: Can I just add the option into current ODBC.ini without giving any impact to current process? There is no  'SeedBeforeConnect' option on current ODBC.ini. I just checking if i added this, would it choke up existing connection?  What would 'SeedBeforeConnect' do?   Environment Info: Version=4.901 JRE version=1.7.0_76 SAS Metadata Server version=9430   Thank you ... View more