What's New in SAS/CONNECT 9.2

SAS/CONNECT has the following changes or enhancements in this release:

• new features and enhancements for server sign-on and Compute Services

• enhancements for Remote Library Services

• documentation enhancements

The CONNECTOUTPUT= system option directs the display of the server's asynchronous RSUBMIT output and log to the client session.

The SIGNON AUTHDOMAIN= option and RSUBMIT AUTHDOMAIN= option provide a convenient way to obtain the SAS metadata-based user credentials rather than having to explicitly supply them during server sign-on.

E-mail is a new supported value for the SIGNON NOTIFY= option and the RSUBMIT NOTIFY= option. New code examples are given for enabling and disabling notification in an asynchronous RSUBMIT.

The SIGNON SERVER= option and RSUBMIT SERVER= option offer a convenient way to obtain the server sign-on properties that are associated with the SAS Application Server without having to explicitly supply them during server sign-on. The SAS Application Server contains a SAS/CONNECT server component in its grouping.

The SIGNON SUBJECT= option and RSUBMIT SUBJECT= option are available when notification via e-mail is also specified.

An additional server sign-on method is provided for SAS/CONNECT: Sign-on to a server that is defined in the SAS Metadata Repository.

When using the LIBNAME statement and the SASESOCK engine to specify an alias for an implicit port, you must have access to a SAS metadata repository..

The descriptions of the syntax for the SAS/CONNECT statements are more readable and accessible than in previous documentation releases. More extensive information is provided for restrictions, examples, references, and interactions with other options in SAS/CONNECT statements.

The SAS/CONNECT language elements (system options, statements, and procedures) are accessible directly from the document's table of contents.

Improved illustrations show SAS/CONNECT programming services Compute Services, Remote Library Services, and Data Transfer Services.

Although a brief summary of the SAS security technologies is provided, detailed information about SAS Proprietary, SAS/SECURE, SSL, SSH, and the networking and encryption SAS system options, is relocated to Data Security Technologies in SAS. Here are the relocated system options:

• NETENCRYPT

• NETENCRYPTALGORITHM=

• NETENCRYPTKEYLEN=

• SSLCALISTLOC=

• SSLCERTISS=

• SSLCERTLOC=

• SSLCERTSERIAL=

• SSLCERTSUBJ=

• SSLCLIENTAUTH=

• SSLCRLCHECK

• SSLCRLLOC=

• SSLPVTKEYLOC=

• SSLPVTKEYPASS=

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