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 new -DESCRIPTION option enables you to add a description to the Windows spawner that is installed and started as a Windows service. The description can be viewed with the services applet in Windows. For more information about this option, see -DESCRIPTION.
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. This option enables the SAS session, which is invoked by the spawner, to support X command processing. For more information, see -SHELL.
The LOGEVENTS option can now be specified in the Windows spawner command. This option causes the SAS/CONNECT spawner to write events to the Windows event log. These events describe when a SAS/CONNECT server process starts, when a SAS/CONNECT server process ends, and when a SAS/CONNECT server process fails to start. For more information, see -LOGEVENTS.