I put together a version of this guide for internal use and thought it would be useful for people in this community. I have also attached a PDF version that includes a few screenshots. This is a guide on how to create a Dataflux Data Service that can be used by SAS Data Integration Studio(DI Studio). The basic process is: Define inputs Create a data service Set the QKB Import to the server Defining Inputs To setup what inputs the service will accept use the External Data Provider Node found in the Data Inputs Category. In the Properties of the External Data Provider Node for each input the service is going to accept specify the name, type and length. Input names should avoid spaces and dashes(-). Create Data Service Create the Data Service the same way you would a Data Job using a External Data Provider Node as the input. One difference is that you do not specify an output location. Normally you would specify a target as a CSV file, table or something else. AData Service will pass whatever comes out of the last Node to DI Studio. For example a simple Data Service can have just an External Data Provider Node and a Parsing Node. The output of the Parsing Node will be sent to DI Studio. Quality Knowledge Base(QKB) The active QKB for the Data Management Server is set in the file app.cfg located on the server at. Different servers may have different locations for this file. For more information search for "qkb/path" in the DataFlux Data Management Server Administrator's Guide http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/dfdmstudio/2.3/DMServer_Admin.pdf: C:\Program Files\DataFlux\DMServer\2.1\etc It is the qkb/path setting. Currently set as: qkb/path = C:\ProgramData\DataFlux\QKB\CI\2011A Even though there is a default path set on the server, best practice will be to explicitly set the path for the QKB when creating the service. One reason for this is if the default QKB path on the server gets changed it could break the service. For example if the server default is changed from a "CI - Contact Info" QKB to a "PD - Product" QKB a service that parses addresses would not longer work. Another reason to explicitly set the QKB path is you may need to use a QKB other than the server default. To set the QKB for a node: Open the Advanced Properties of the node Edit the value for BF_PATH Enter the QKB path   Field Name Rules Spaces and dashes(-) should be avoided in input or output field names. DI Studio does not these characters in field names gracefully. Import to Server Once the Data Service has been created and saved follow these steps to import it to the Data Management Server: Go to the Data Management Servers riser Click the Import button Choose the saved Data Service for the folders in your repository and click Next Choose the Real-Time Data Services folder as the Import Location and click Import If the Item Already Exists choose the appropriate option from the prompt. Click Close ... View more