This client/server toolset establishes connections between networked computers with different operating systems and offers scalability through parallel SAS processing. By providing the ability to manage, access and process data in a distributed and parallel environment, SAS/CONNECT enables users and developers to combine computing resources across varying architectures and SAS releases.

Overview

SAS/CONNECT software is a SAS client/server toolset that provides the ability to manage, access, and process data in a distributed and parallel SAS environment. As a client/server application, SAS/CONNECT links a SAS client session to a SAS server session. SAS/CONNECT enables users and application developers to achieve the following:

Maintain SAS interoperability across architectures and SAS releases

• transfer remote data sources directly into CAS tables running on SAS Viya platform only
• transfer disk copies of data
• directly process a remote data source and get results back locally

Develop scalable SAS solutions

• process data in parallel in CAS
• run multiple independent processes asynchronously
• scale up to fully use the capabilities of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) hardware
• scale out to fully use the features of distributed processors
• use pipeline processing (TCP/IP ports) to run multiple dependent processes asynchronously
• combine the resources of multiple computers to work in parallel