S1000 Communications Access Method Errors

The S1000 (SAS API error) return code is often accompanied by error messages that are returned by your communications access method. The following tables list some of the messages and explain them.

Message Text	Explanation
Memory failure	Not enough memory is available.
Network failure	An unspecified network failure occurred.
No server found	The remote server was not found.
Remote closed connection	The SAS server disconnected.
Remote refused connection	The remote system disallowed a connection. Check the remote services file.
Start SAS failure—please check your SAS server parameters	The ShellExecute statement failed when starting SAS. Check to see whether the SAS paths are specified properly.
TCP method Winsock API <function-name> failed with WSAGetLastError <`rc`>	A TCP/IP Winsock return code (`rc`) was returned. The return codes are listed in TCP/IP Winsock Return Codes..
Timeout waiting for the SAS server—check the startup options	A SAS server did not register itself as a server within the specified time period.
Unable to locate remote host	TCP/IP could not find the remote host name.
Unable to locate service	TCP/IP could not find the server name in the services file.
Userid.password security failure	User ID and password verification failed on the remote machine.
You must connect to SAS/SHARE on a remote machine	You must select SAS/SHARE in the SAS ODBC Driver Configuration dialog box Servers page to connect to a remote machine.