The IOM infrastructure provides basic administration interfaces that can be used by server implementations. These interfaces are common across many (if not all) of the SAS IOM servers.

You establish a connection to a running SAS IOM Server by providing connection information about the PROC IOMOPERATE statement or by running the CONNECT command. All other IOMOPERATE commands require a connection to an IOM Server. Once connected, all subsequent commands apply to that server until a DISCONNECT or STOP SERVER command is executed.

After you have disconnected from the server, the only other command that you can execute is the CONNECT command to connect to another (or the same) server. When the IOMOPERATE procedure is terminated with the QUIT command, an automatic server disconnect is executed. It is not necessary to explicitly disconnect from the server before terminating the procedure.