Capabilities by Connection Type

SAS Extension for Visual Studio Code - Capabilities by Connection Type	SAS Viya	SAS 9.4 (local) SAS 9.4 (remote - IOM)	SAS 9.4 (local - stdio)	SAS 9.4 (remote - SSH)	Notes
SAS Options settings	✔️	✔️*	✔️	✔️	*Options that can only be specified at SAS session startup are not supported for SAS 9.4 (local) and (remote-IOM).
SAS Autoexec settings	✔️	❌	✔️	❌
Access SAS Content	✔️	❌	❌	❌
Access SAS Server	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	SSH support to be added in a future release
Access connected libraries	✔️	✔️	❌**	❌	**In Positron, SAS 9.4 (local - stdio) libraries are in the Connections pane.
Table viewer	✔️	✔️	❌**	❌	**In Positron, SAS 9.4 (local - stdio) tables open in the Data Explorer.
SAS Notebooks	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Convert SAS Notebook to SAS Studio Flow	✔️	❌	❌	❌
SAS syntax highlighting in SAS code	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
SAS errors, warnings, and notes highlighting in SAS log	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	A SAS color theme is required.
Show problems from SAS log	✔️	✔️	❌	❌
Code folding and code outline	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Code completion	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Pop-up syntax help	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Snippets	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Able to cancel a running program	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	Interrupting a SAS 9.4 (local - stdio) or (remote - SSH) session in Positron offers to restart it.

For the features that Positron adds for each connection type, such as the Data Explorer and Posit Assistant, see Features by Connection Type in the Positron features. For how to run SAS in Posit Workbench, see SAS with Posit Workbench.

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When doing VS Code Remote Development, the SAS extension is running on the Remote OS.