SAS® Integration Technologies: Administrator's Guide (LDAP Version)

Initializing UNIX Environment Variables for SAS
Workspace Servers
In UNIX environments, many third−party databases require access information such as the default server address to be
set as environment variables. To make these environment variables available to a SAS Workspace Server, you must
create the workspace using a wrapper script that defines the variables before invoking SAS.
The following code is an example script.
#!/bin/ksh −p
# Purpose: Runs database setup scripts before invoking SAS.
# Called by objspawn.
# Restore quotation marks around arguments that have multiple tokens.
function quoteme { #arg
if [[ $# −gt 1 ]]; then
quoteme="\"$*\""
else
quoteme=$1
fi
}
echo $quoteme
# Run database setup scripts or set required environment
# variables here.
# Reconstruct and execute the original SAS command.
cmd=''
for arg in "$@" ; do
tmp="$(quoteme $arg)";
cmd="$cmd $tmp"
done
eval exec $cmd
To use this script:
1. Add your export statements or script calls and save the file as objspawn.setup in a location where all
users have read and execute permissions.
2. Set the execute bits for the file. You can do this using the following command:
chmod 755 objspawn.setup
3. Add objspawn.setup to the start of your sas command in the server definition. For example:
objspawn.setup sas
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