If the client and server sessions are running on different network nodes, you must
include the TCP/IP node in the server ID in the LIBNAME or the PROC OPERATE statement.
To do this, you
use a two-level server name as follows:
server=node.server
The access method evaluates the node name, in this order of priority:
If the server and the client sessions are running on the same node, you can omit the
node name.
server can
be either of the following:
Example 1:
A port is the unique number that is associated with the service that is used for passing
data to and receiving data from the server.
Precede the
port number with two consecutive underscores.
Note: Do not space after the first
underscore or the second underscore.
libname mylib '.' server=srvnode._ _5000;
Example
2:
If the TCP/IP node name is not a valid eight-character SAS name, assign the name of
the server node to a SAS macro variable, and then use the name of that macro variable
for node in the two-level
server name.
%let srvnode=mktserver.acme.com;
libname sales server=srvnode.server1;
Note: Do not use an ampersand (&)
in a two-level name. An ampersand causes a macro variable to be resolved
by the SAS parser before syntactic evaluation of the SERVER= option.
Example 3:
You might assign the node name and the server ID to a macro variable.
%let srvnode=mktserver.acme.com 5000;
libname sales server=srvnode;