SAS
The Provider for SAS Data Sets allows connecting to local and remote SAS resources. Set the URI property to the SAS resource location, in addition to any other properties necessary to connect to your data source.
Connecting to Local Files
Set the ConnectionType to Local. Local files support SELECT\INSERT\DELETE.
Set the URI to a folder containing SAS files: C:\folder1.
Connecting to Cloud-Hosted SAS Data Sets Files
While the provider is capable of pulling data from SAS Data Sets files hosted on a variety of cloud data stores, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE are not supported outside of local files in this provider.
If you need INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE cloud files, you can use the corresponding connector for that cloud host (supported via stored procedures), make changes with the local file's corresponding provider, then upload the file using the cloud source's stored procedures.
As an example, if you wanted to update a file stored on SharePoint, you could use the appRules SharePoint DownloadDocument activity to download the SAS Data Sets file, update the local SAS Data Sets file with the appRules SAS Data Sets connector, then use the SharePoint UploadDocument activity to upload the changed file to SharePoint.
A unique prefix at the beginning of the URI connection property is used to identify the cloud data store being targed by the provider and the remainder of the path is a relative path to the desired folder (one table per file) or single file (a single table).
Amazon S3
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on Amazon S3:
ConnectionType: Set the ConnectionType to Amazon S3.
URI: Set this to the bucket and folder: s3://bucket1/folder1.
Azure Blob Storage
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on Azure Blob Storage:
ConnectionType: Set this to Azure Blob Storage.
URI: Set this to the name of your container and the name of the blob. For example: azureblob://mycontainer/myblob.
Azure Data Lake Storage
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on Azure Data Lake Storage:
ConnectionType: Set this to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 SSL.
URI: Set this to the name of the file system and the name of the folder which contains your SAS Data Sets files. For example:
Gen 1: adl://myfilesystem/folder1
Gen 2: abfs://myfilesystem/folder1
Gen 2 SSL: abfss://myfilesystem/folder1
Azure File Storage
Set the following properties to connect:
ConnectionType: Set this to Azure Files.
URI: Set this the name of your azure file share and the name of the resource. For example: azurefile://fileShare/remotePath.
AzureStorageAccount (Required): Set this to the account associated with the Azure file.
You can authenticate either an Azure access key or an Azure shared access signature. Set one of the following:
AzureAccessKey: Set this to the access key associated with the Azure file.
AzureSharedAccessSignature: Set this to the shared access signature associated with the Azure file.
Box
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on Box:
ConnectionType: Set this to Box.
URI: Set this the name of the file system and the name of the folder which contains your SAS Data Sets files. For example: box://folder1.
Dropbox
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on Dropbox:
ConnectionType: Set this to Dropbox.
URI: Set this to the path to a folder containing SAS files. For example: dropbox://folder1.
FTP
The provider supports both plaintext and SSL/TLS connections to FTP servers.
Set the following connection properties to connect:
ConnectionType: Set this to either FTP or FTPS.
URI: Set this to the address of the server followed by the path to the folder to be used as the root folder. For example: ftp://localhost:990/folder1 or ftps://localhost:990/folder1.
User: Set this to your username on the FTP(S) server you want to connect to.
Password: Set this to your password on the FTP(S) server you want to connect to.
Google Cloud Storage
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on Google Cloud Storage:
ConnectionType: Set this to Google Cloud Storage.
URI: Set this to the path to the name of the file system and the name of the folder which contains your SAS Data Sets files. For example: gs://bucket/remotePath.
Google Drive
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on Google Drive:
ConnectionType: Set this to Google Drive.
URI: Set to the path to the name of the file system and the name of the folder which contains your SAS Data Sets files. For example: gdrive://folder1.
HDFS
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on HDFS:
ConnectionType: Set this to HDFS or HDFS Secure.
URI: Set this to the path to a folder containing SAS files. For example:
HDFS: webhdfs://host:port/remotePath
HDFS Secure: webhdfss://host:port/remotePath
There are two authentication methods available for connecting to HDFS data source, Anonymous Authentication and Negotiate (Kerberos) Authentication.
Anonymous Authentication
In some situations, you can connect to HDFS without any authentication connection properties. To do so, set the AuthScheme property to None (default).
Authenticate using Kerberos
When authentication credentials are required, you can use Kerberos for authentication.
HTTP Streams
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on HTTP streams:
ConnectionType: Set this to HTTP or HTTPS.
URI: Set this to the URI of your HTTP(S) stream. For example:
HTTP: http://remoteStream
HTTPS: https://remoteStream
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on IBM Cloud Object Storage:
ConnectionType: Set this to IBM Object Storage Source.
URI: Set this to the bucket and folder. For example: ibmobjectstorage://bucket1/remotePath.
OneDrive
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on OneDrive:
ConnectionType: Set this to OneDrive.
URI: Set this to the path to a folder containing SAS files. For example: onedrive://remotePath.
Oracle Cloud Storage
Set the following properties to authenticate with HMAC:
ConnectionType: Set the ConnectionType to Oracle Cloud Storage.
URI: Set this to the bucket and folder: os://bucket/remotePath.
AccessKey: Set this to an Oracle Cloud Access Key.
SecretKey: Set this to an Oracle Cloud Secret Key.
OracleNamespace: Set this to an Oracle cloud namespace.
Region (optional): Set this to the hosting region for your S3-like Web Services.
SFTP
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on SFTP:
ConnectionType: Set this to SFTP.
URI: Set this to the address of the server followed by the path to the folder to be used as the root folder. For example: sftp://server:port/remotePath.
SharePoint Online
Set the following to identify your SAS Data Sets resources stored on SharePoint Online:
ConnectionType: Set this to SharePoint REST or SharePoint SOAP.
URI: Set this to a document library containing SAS files. For example:
SharePoint Online REST: sprest://remotePath
SharePoint Online SOAP: sp://remotePath
Securing SAS Data Sets Connections
By default, the provider attempts to negotiate SSL/TLS by checking the server's certificate against the system's trusted certificate store. To specify another certificate, see the SSLServerCert property for the available formats to do so.
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