The SAS Remote Function
Call (RFC) Server is a component of the SAS Data Surveyor for SAP
in
z/OS operating environments. It provides access to the data in
SAP R/3 and SAP BW systems, supports calls to ABAP RFC functions,
and uses TCP/IP protocol for communication with the SAP system.
The server provides
these features.
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It runs independently of SAS as
a background process on the SAS host, the SAP host, or another machine
entirely.
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You can configure it to listen
on any TCP/IP port (default 6999).
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Although it can have more than
one concurrent instance on a given machine, each instance must have
a unique port number. Each instance can communicate with numerous
SAP R/3 or SAP BW systems.
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It can process requests from multiple
SAP application servers.
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It can support Unicode and non-Unicode
SAP servers. Although you can start the Unicode SAS RFC Server only
from Windows, it can support Unicode SAP R/3 and SAS on all platforms.
For information about starting a Unicode RFC server, see SAS RFC Server on Windows.