What is the difference between SAS/CONNECT software and SAS/SHARE software?
SAS/CONNECT software puts the full power of the SAS System at your disposal on the remote host. You can send work to it and get back the results, use it to download or upload data, or access remote data through it as if it were local. If you license SAS/ACCESS software on the remote host, you can also update DBMS data. However, update access to SAS data through the remote session requires that the remote session have exclusive access to the data. SAS/SHARE software, by contrast, provides a multiuser data server that permits access to remote data as if it were local and concurrent update access to that data by multiple client SAS sessions. You can’t send arbitrary work to a SAS/SHARE server to be performed, and you can’t update DBMS data, but you can share SAS libraries, data sets, and catalogs with other users in update mode.
