When you connect to a SAS/CONNECT Spawner or a SAS Object Spawner that is defined in the SAS Intelligence Platform under z/OS, the connection might seem to hang and eventually fails.

The problem occurs when the spawner script has been modified to use /bin/tsocmd instead of /bin/tso.

For each environment variable that is used in the UNIX System Services shell script and that has a NULL value, one or more of the following errors appears in the system console log:

+SASTREXX: user-ID: 68352: Error: Invalid ENV option value "TSOOUT="
+SASTREXX: user-ID: 16845568:  The ENV option requires an assignment expression as its value.
+SASTREXX: user-ID: 33622784: Error: Terminating due to invalid ENV
option.

To correct this issue, edit the 'high-level-qualifier.SASRX(SASTREXX)' file to remove the following section of code:

if val = ''
then do
   call say 'Error: Invalid ENV option value "'assignment'"'
   call invalid 'The ENV option requires an assignment expression',
      'as its value.'
end

A fix is planned for a future software release.

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