Understanding SAS/CONNECT Servers

Overview of SAS/CONNECT and the SAS Intelligence Platform

SAS/CONNECT software provides the essential tools for sharing data and processing power across multiple computing environments. SAS code uses these tools to perform tasks such as the following:

dividing time-consuming tasks into multiple units of work and executing these units in parallel
moving data from a client machine to a server machine, or vice versa, so that the data is on the same machine as the code processing it

Any code that your company writes for use with the SAS Intelligence Platform, such as stored processes, can use these SAS/CONNECT features. For more information about the general capabilities of SAS/CONNECT, see Introduction to SAS/CONNECT or the SAS/CONNECT User's Guide.

In addition, SAS/CONNECT plays some special roles in the SAS Intelligence Platform. For example, in a properly configured environment, some of the platform clients, such as SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Enterprise Miner, can generate code that includes SAS/CONNECT statements. These statements enable the generated code to perform tasks such as those mentioned in the previous paragraph. SAS/CONNECT also plays an important role in the replication of metadata repositories because the replication is accomplished by uploading data sets from a client machine to a server machine. For more information about these special roles, see Overview of the Uses of SAS/CONNECT in the SAS Intelligence Platform.

If your environment contains SAS/CONNECT, the SAS Deployment Wizard might have configured the product when your system was installed. If this configuration did take place, it is important for you to know what metadata objects and files were created during installation so that you can manage your environment effectively. For more information about how the wizard configures SAS/CONNECT, see Initial Configuration of the SAS/CONNECT Server.

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