Domain-Enabled ODBC Connection Dialog

You can use this dialog to create a domain-enabled ODBC connection. A domain-enabled ODBC connection links an authentication server domain to an ODBC Data Source Name (DSN) connection. The credentials for each user are stored on the authentication server and are applied when the user accesses the domain-enabled connection by logging onto the SAS Metadata Server. (Note that the authentication server for DataFlux Data Management Studio is the SAS Metadata Server.) This approach provides more granular control over which credentials are used to access data.

To create a domain-enabled ODBC connection, you will specify a domain and an ODBC connection that have already been defined. To create and ODBC definition, please see Adding Domain-Enabled ODBC Connections. The dialog contains the following elements:

Name - Specifies a name for the new domain-enabled ODBC connection.

Description - Enables you to enter a text description for the new domain-enabled ODBC connection.

ODBC DSN - Enables you to select an existing DSN connection from a list of connections that were configured in the Windows ODBC Administrator.

Domain name - Enables you to specify the domain that you want to associate with the selected ODBC DSN.

Test Connection - Enables you to test the connection that you have created.

Note: You can set global options for connections in the Data Connections tab of the Data Management Studio Options dialog. You can access this dialog from the Tools menu.


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