System Requirements

This documentation assumes that you have an existing SAS environment that includes a local or remote SAS server for accessing data. The server determines which driver you use in your application as explained in the following table.

SAS Servers and Their Associated Drivers

SAS Server	SAS Driver for JDBC
SAS Workspace Server	IOM Driver
SAS/SHARE server	SAS/SHARE Driver

For information about how to start the SAS servers, see the following resources:

Documentation Resources for Starting SAS Servers

Server	Documentation Title	Section
SAS Workspace Server	SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide	"Using SAS Management Console to Operate SAS Servers" (refer to the information about the SAS Object Spawner because it creates the SAS Workspace Server process)
SAS/SHARE Server	SAS/SHARE: User's Guide	"Starting a Server: A Fast-Track Approach"

These documents are available from SAS Web site at http://support.sas.com/documentation/index.html.

Here are some additional system requirements:

To access data through the SAS Workspace Server, a SAS Workspace Server must be licensed and installed.
To access data through a SAS/SHARE server, a SAS/SHARE server must be licensed and installed.
JRE 1.5 or later must be installed.
A CLASSPATH environment variable must be properly configured.