SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System under Linux currently supports only the none and Kerberos authentication methods. It does not support the basic authentication method to connect to PI Servers.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Post Hot-Fix Instructions

This hot fix requires that you install another hot fix, which supports the environment variable SAS_PI_WEB_AUTH. For more information, see SAS Note 64004, "You encounter slow performance when you use SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to the PI System under Linux to connect to PI Servers."

You can set the environment variable, SAS_PI_WEB_AUTH, to use basic authentication by running the following SAS code:

Then, you can specify and run your LIBNAME statement using syntax similar to either of the following examples:

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Notes:

• Make sure that your target PI Web API host is configured with the basic authentication method.
• If your PI Web API host is configured to allow an authentication method other than basic, SAS might connect using your other authentication method. In this scenario, some option values such as domain, user-id, and password might be ignored.

This issue is fixed in the SAS^® 9.4M6 (TS1M6) April 2019 release.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System	Solaris for x64	9.43	9.44	9.4 TS1M5	9.4 TS1M6
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.43	9.44	9.4 TS1M5	9.4 TS1M6
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.43	9.44	9.4 TS1M5	9.4 TS1M6
		Linux for x64	9.43	9.44	9.4 TS1M5	9.4 TS1M6
		HP-UX IPF	9.43	9.44	9.4 TS1M5	9.4 TS1M6

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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A fix for this issue for SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System 9.44 is available at:

https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/F8X.html#64105

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A fix for this issue for SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System 9.43 is available at:

https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/D3W.html#64105

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SAS/ACCESS Interface to the PI System under Linux currently supports only the none and Kerberos authentication methods. It does not support basic authentication to connect to PI Servers.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high

Date Modified:	2019-05-20 15:46:03
Date Created:	2019-04-25 09:57:20