Execute sas code remotely on the unix server (through an interactive ssh connection).
Bring results down into excel for inspection/analysis.
Note: BigQuery support is experimental at this stage.
Useful commands
Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows) and type in one of the following commands:
Command
Default Shortcut
Description
Remote Tools: Execute Sas Code
ctrl+f5
Execute the selected SAS code. Established the connection when first executed.
Remote Tools: View 500 rows SAS
ctrl+f6
Open the first 500 rows of the selected dataset in excel.
Remote Tools: View all rows SAS
ctrl+f7
Open all rows of the selected dataset in excel. Use caution with large datasets.
Remote Tools: Query Big Query
ctrl+f8
Open the results of the selected query in excel.
To see all available commands, open the Command Palette and type Remote Tools.
Extension Settings
This extension contributes the following settings:
RemoteTools.host: Hostname of the remote server running SAS
RemoteTools.port: SSH port of the remote server running SAS
RemoteTools.username: SSH username
RemoteTools.password: SSH password
RemoteTools.noterminal: -noterminal stops SAS from attempting to connect to the X server with using proc export.
However, there is a side effect in that if there is an error in a data proc it is unable to recover until SAS is restarted.
Known Issues
With -noterminal = false proc export/import does not work. With -noterminal = true proc export and proc import will work but if SAS encounters an error in a data proc the session will have to be restarted.
BigQuery authentication is cumbersome - currently requires running gcloud auth application-default login before starting the session.
Some BigQuery field types do not have parsers implemented yet.
