Good news: it is a simple question. Bad news: the answer is "no".
As @Kurt_Bremser says, EG has to establish a SAS session before any SAS code can be executed. This is done using facilities that don't involve any SAS code. So there's no way from within SAS code to invoke a server.
In my experience, EG starts a SAS server session as soon as I submit code, or when I open a server to examine the files and datasets.
Tom
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