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SAS Viya MCP Server

Execute SAS code and query Compute, CAS, and model APIs on SAS Viya via OAuth 2.0.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

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Published as ghcr.io/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server:1.11.1 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

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no authentication after starting server

Per the instructions, I'm not getting an authentication pop up to my Viya instance when starting the server. This had been working seamlessly in the first version I used, but when I upgraded the project to 1.5, there is no authentication request.

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Read the thread · 2026-07-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

promote_table_to_memory tool — always returns 404

promote_table_to_memory tool is broken — always returns 404

Type: Bug / Design Issue
Component: promote_table_to_memory tool (src/sas_mcp_server/tools.py)

Description

The promote_table_to_memory tool makes a REST call to casManagement to promote a table to global scope. This assumes the target table already exists as a session-scoped in-memory table in an active CAS session. In practice, this assumption can never be met through the current MCP tool architec

Read the thread · 2026-05-11 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

container build errors

When I tried to put the MCP server into a container with the dockerfile provided, I had two errors during the build process.

First one: _##[error]#11 0.720 Caused by: ##[error]#11 0.720 TOML parse error at line 6, column 11 ##[error]#11 0.720 | ##[error]#11 0.721 6 | authors = ["SAS Institute Inc."] ##[error]#11 0.721 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ##[error]#11 0.722 a table with 'name' and/or 'email' keys ##[error]#11 0.722
##[error]#11 0.727 × Failed to

Read the thread · 2026-03-26 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Can start server - but cannot see tools - authentication failed

Error message:

## Full message: 026-02-28 04:12:15.679 [info] Starting server sas-execution-mcp
2026-02-28 04:12:15.680 [info] Connection state: Starting
2026-02-28 04:12:15.680 [info] Starting server from LocalProcess extension host
2026-02-28 04:12:15.680 [info] Connection state: Running
2026-02-28 04:12:15.698 [info] Populated auth metadata
2026-02-28 04:12:20.680 [info] Waiting for server to respond to `initialize` request...
2026-02-28 04:12:25.679 [info] Waiting for server to respo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server/issues/4) · 2026-02-28 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Explain how to set the Viya certificate chain for Python

With the correct settings of the Viya admin I still got a certificate error when connecting from my local sas-mcp-server to Viya. It turned out that I have to give Python, executing the mcp server, the Viya certificate chain (see linux syntax below). Probably that is a meaningful docu extension?
 
export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE="/localpath/sas-viya-openssl-ingress-certificate.pem"
export SSL_CERT_FILE="/localpath/sas-viya-openssl-ingress-certificate.pem"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sassoftware/sas-mcp-server/issues/3) · 2026-02-26 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for SAS Viya](/mcp/sas-viya/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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- 6 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
- No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
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