Starting with SAS^® 9.1, you must specify the full path to SAS^® in the SAS invocation statement if you want the SAS/CONNECT software spawner in the UNIX environment to invoke the remote SAS session. If you do not define the path to the remote SAS session, the following error message displays:

In SAS 9.1, the code that starts the SAS/CONNECT software spawner was changed, and the PATH environment variable is no longer passed to the spawner. One of the parameters that was previously set in the PATH variable and that was sent to the spawner was the location of the ! SASROOT directory.

You must now specify the full path to SAS in the SAS invocation statement. For example, in the tcpunix.scr script file, specify:

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at: