What's New in Communications Access Methods for SAS/CONNECT 9.3 and SAS/SHARE 9.3

Overview

In SAS 9.3, the communications access methods for SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE software has several changes to the spawners. These changes result in improved security, enable X command processing for the z/OS spawner, and write events to the Windows event log.

Changes to the Spawners

  • The ENCRYPTFIPS security option is now available for the spawner command on all operating environments. For more information about this and all other security options, see Encryption in SAS, located in the Base SAS Help and Documentation.

  • The SHELL option in the z/OS spawner can now be specified in the z/OS PARM file to enable X command processing in the SAS server session ...

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