SAS/CONNECT Server Tasks

The tasks outlined in this chapter describe the manual setup and configuration of the SAS/CONNECT Spawner. In most cases, the SAS Connect spawner is deployed using the SAS Deployment Wizard, which stores information in the metadata server, and manual setup is not required.

If you are signing on to a z/OS server with TSO, there are no server tasks.

To allow a client to connect to a z/OS server without running a TSO terminal monitor program, install the logon procedure on the z/OS server.

For z/OS server connections, you can eliminate the need for TSO by replacing the terminal monitor program (also called logon procedure) with a procedure that starts SAS with the options that you want. The benefits of this method are that signing on and signing off a z/OS server is much faster than running with TSO, and you eliminate the overhead consumed by running TSO. However, a disadvantage of running without TSO is that you cannot execute any X commands or TSO commands.

In the following example, the logon procedure starts SAS with the DMR and the COMAMID=TCP options. When you log on to the z/OS server, this procedure is immediately run so that the current z/OS account is limited to running SAS each time that the current z/OS account user logs on.

//JOBDL   PROC ENTRY=SASHOST,
//             OPTIONS=,
//             WORK='500,200'
//JOBDL   EXEC PGM=&ENTRY,
// PARM='&OPTIONS DMR COMAMID=TCP',REGION=4096K
//STEPLIB   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&prefix.TS450.LIBRARY
//CONFIG    DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&prefix.TS450.CNTL(TSOXA)
//SASAUTOS  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&prefix.TS450.AUTOLIB
//SASHELP   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&prefix.TS450.SASHELP
//SASMSG    DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&prefix.TS450.SASMSG
//WORK      DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(6144,(&WORK),,,ROUND),
//             DCB=(RECFM=FS,DSORG=PS,LRECL=6144,BLKSIZE=6144)
//SASPARM   DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(400,(100,300)),
               DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=400,BUFNO=1)

A script file is still required at the client for sign-on. However, a SAS start-up command is not included in the script file because the logon procedure already executes the SAS start-up command.

For the content of the script file, see TCPMVS.SCR Script.

The following command starts the spawner on a z/OS computer. The -SERVICE option specifies the name of the port, o390spawn, that the spawner listens on for client requests to start the server. The absence of the -SASCMD option in the spawner start-up command implies that the client will use a script file to specify the SAS command that starts SAS on the z/OS computer.

cntspawn -service o390spawn