Connection String Options
The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Basic Tab.
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | The type of authentication to use when connecting to remote services. |
| AccessKey | Your account access key. This value is accessible from your security credentials page. |
| SecretKey | Your account secret key. This value is accessible from your security credentials page. |
| ApiKey | The API Key used to identify the user to IBM Cloud. |
| User | The user account used to authenticate. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the user. |
| SharePointEdition | The edition of SharePoint being used. Set either SharePointOnline or SharePointOnPremise. |
| Property | Description |
| ConnectionType | Specifies the file storage service, server, or file access protocol through which your SAS Data Sets files are stored and retreived. |
| URI | The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for the SAS resource location. |
| Region | The hosting region for your S3-like Web Services. |
| ProjectId | The Id of the project where your Google Cloud Storage instance resides. |
| OracleNamespace | The Oracle Cloud Object Storage namespace to use. |
| StorageBaseURL | The URL of a cloud storage service provider. |
| UseVirtualHosting | If true (default), buckets will be referenced in the request using the hosted-style request: http://yourbucket.s3.amazonaws.com/yourobject. If set to false, the bean will use the path-style request: http://s3.amazonaws.com/yourbucket/yourobject. Note that this property will be set to false, in case of an S3 based custom service when the CustomURL is specified. |
| UseLakeFormation | When this property is set to true, AWSLakeFormation service will be used to retrieve temporary credentials, which enforce access policies against the user based on the configured IAM role. The service can be used when authenticating through OKTA, ADFS, AzureAD, PingFederate, while providing a SAML assertion. |
| Property | Description |
| AWSAccessKey | Your AWS account access key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSSecretKey | Your AWS account secret key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSRoleARN | The Amazon Resource Name of the role to use when authenticating. |
| AWSPrincipalARN | The ARN of the SAML Identity provider in your AWS account. |
| AWSRegion | The hosting region for your Amazon Web Services. |
| AWSCredentialsFile | The path to the AWS Credentials File to be used for authentication. |
| AWSCredentialsFileProfile | The name of the profile to be used from the supplied AWSCredentialsFile. |
| AWSSessionToken | Your AWS session token. |
| AWSExternalId | A unique identifier that might be required when you assume a role in another account. |
| MFASerialNumber | The serial number of the MFA device if one is being used. |
| MFAToken | The temporary token available from your MFA device. |
| CredentialsLocation | The location of the settings file where MFA credentials are saved. |
| TemporaryTokenDuration | The amount of time (in seconds) a temporary token will last. |
| ServerSideEncryption | When activated, file uploads into Amazon S3 buckets will be server-side encrypted. |
| SSEContext | A BASE64-encoded UTF-8 string holding JSON which represents a string-string (key-value) map. |
| SSEEnableS3BucketKeys | Configuration to use an S3 Bucket Key at the object level when encrypting data with AWS KMS. Enabling this will reduce the cost of server-side encryption by lowering calls to AWS KMS. |
| SSEKey | A symmetric encryption KeyManagementService key, that is used to protect the data when using ServerSideEncryption. |
| Property | Description |
| AzureStorageAccount | The name of your Azure storage account. |
| AzureAccessKey | The storage key associated with your Azure account. |
| AzureSharedAccessSignature | A shared access key signature that may be used for authentication. |
| AzureTenant | The Microsoft Online tenant being used to access data. If not specified, your default tenant is used. |
| AzureEnvironment | The Azure Environment to use when establishing a connection. |
| Property | Description |
| SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
| SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider in a semicolon-separated list. |
| SSOExchangeUrl | The URL used for consuming the SAML response and exchanging it for service specific credentials. |
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when you connect. |
| OAuthClientId | The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthAccessToken | The access token for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuthAccessTokenSecret | The OAuth access token secret for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH . Alternatively, you can hold this location in memory by specifying a value starting with 'memory://'. |
| CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
| Scope | Specify scope to obtain the initial access and refresh token. |
| OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth AccessToken. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds when the current Access Token was created. |
| Property | Description |
| OAuthJWTCert | The JWT Certificate store. |
| OAuthJWTCertType | The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertPassword | The password for the OAuth JWT certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertSubject | The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate. |
| Property | Description |
| KerberosKDC | The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) service used to authenticate the user. |
| KerberosRealm | The Kerberos Realm used to authenticate the user. |
| KerberosSPN | The service principal name (SPN) for the Kerberos Domain Controller. |
| KerberosKeytabFile | The Keytab file containing your pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. |
| KerberosServiceRealm | The Kerberos realm of the service. |
| KerberosServiceKDC | The Kerberos KDC of the service. |
| KerberosTicketCache | The full file path to an MIT Kerberos credential cache file. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLClientCert | The TLS/SSL client certificate store for SSL Client Authentication (2-way SSL). |
| SSLClientCertType | The type of key store containing the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLClientCertPassword | The password for the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLClientCertSubject | The subject of the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLMode | The authentication mechanism to be used when connecting to the FTP or FTPS server. |
| SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| SSHAuthMode | The authentication method used when establishing an SSH Tunnel to the service. |
| SSHClientCert | A certificate to be used for authenticating the SSHUser. |
| SSHClientCertPassword | The password of the SSHClientCert key if it has one. |
| SSHClientCertSubject | The subject of the SSH client certificate. |
| SSHClientCertType | The type of SSHClientCert private key. |
| SSHUser | The SSH user. |
| SSHPassword | The SSH password. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyUser | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyPassword | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
| Property | Description |
| LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| Property | Description |
| Charset | Specifies the session character set for encoding and decoding character data transferred to and from the SAS Data Sets file. The default value is UTF-8. |
| ClientCulture | This property can be used to specify the format of data (e.g., currency values) that is accepted by the client application. This property can be used when the client application does not support the machine's culture settings. For example, Microsoft Access requires 'en-US'. |
| Culture | This setting can be used to specify culture settings that determine how the provider interprets certain data types that are passed into the provider. For example, setting Culture='de-DE' will output German formats even on an American machine. |
| DeleteDownloadedFiles | When set to true, the provider will delete parsed .sas7bdat files downloaded from cloud sources. |
| DirectoryRetrievalDepth | Limit the subfolders recursively scanned when IncludeSubdirectories is enabled. |
| ExcludeFiles | Comma-separated list of file extensions to exclude from the set of the files modeled as tables. |
| FolderId | The ID of a folder in Google Drive. If set, the resource location specified by the URI is relative to the Folder ID for all operations. |
| IncludeDropboxTeamResources | Indicates if you want to include Dropbox team files and folders. |
| IncludeFiles | Comma-separated list of file extensions to include into the set of the files modeled as tables. |
| IncludeItemsFromAllDrives | Whether Google Drive shared drive items should be included in results. If not present or set to false, then shared drive items are not returned. |
| IncludeSubdirectories | Whether to read files from nested folders. In the case of a name collision, table names are prefixed by the underscore-separated folder names. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to SAS Data Sets from the provider. |
| TemporaryLocalFolder | The path, or URI, to the folder that is used to temporarily download SAS file(s). |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |