To configure your services file for use with the SAS
ODBC Driver, you must add an entry to the services file for each SAS
server (either local or remote) that you have configured using the
ODBC Data Source Administrator.
The port
number that you use should be an unused port number in this services
file (for larger networks, contact your network administrator to obtain
an available port number). The port number must be greater than 1024,
because any port number equal to or less than 1024 is reserved. The
protocol must always be TCP. The server name must be from one to eight
characters long. The first character must be a letter or an underscore.
Subsequent characters can be letters, numeric digits, underscores,
the dollar ($) sign, or the at (@) sign.
For example,
if in the ODBC Data Source Administrator you configured a local data
source named
local and a remote
SAS/SHARE server named
machine.shr2, you would add entries to the services
file similar to the following entries (substituting the appropriate
port numbers):
local 6000/tcp # service name for local access to SAS data
shr2 5010/tcp # service name for SAS/SHARE server
Note: In the case
of
shr2, the administrator
of the remote system named
machine should have already edited the services file on the remote system
to include the same
shr2 entry and should have started the
SAS/SHARE server.