How to connect from Linux to BleemSync 1.1

After installing BleemSync 1.1 on my PlayStation Classic, I could connect to the BleemSync UI from Windows but not from Linux (Ubuntu 19.04). Google Chrome reported "unable to connect," and ping to 169.254.215.100 reported a network error.

dmesg showed that Linux identified the device, and RNDIS networking started

[23945.137399] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 31 using xhci_hcd
[23945.286069] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6863, bcdDevice=ff.ff
[23945.286075] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=4, SerialNumber=5
[23945.286079] usb 1-3: Product: classic
[23945.286082] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: BleemSync
[23945.290633] rndis_host 1-3:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:14.0-3, RNDIS device, 8a:04:6f:1c:f9:72
[23945.291271] cdc_acm 1-3:1.2: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[23945.339113] rndis_host 1-3:1.0 enp0s20f0u3: renamed from usb0

However, ifconfig showed it did not have an IPv4 address. This indicates a DHCP failure.

$ ifconfig enp0s20f0u3
enp0s20f0u3: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::adf4:a447:4b1d:f96c  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 72:b7:b8:ae:c8:00  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 8  bytes 536 (536.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 81  bytes 12347 (12.3 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

I bypassed DHCP by manual IP configuration.

sudo route add -net 169.254.215.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 1024 dev enp0s20f0u3
sudo ifconfig enp0s20f0u3 169.254.215.2
ping 169.254.215.100

Now Google Chrome, ping, and even telnet worked.

Note: your interface name may vary. Mine was enp0s20f0u3.

This solution worked until rebooting Ubuntu. Later I found a permanent solution: BleemSync 1.0 on Ubuntu thanks to DDFoster96.

SAS Message Log with ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #

When using SAS to develop high-performance queries against remote SQL databases, it is helpful to see the exact ODBC messages that SAS passes to the driver. Sometimes the implicit SQL poorly translates a query, which can be optimized. To see these message, enable the SAS trace like this:

options sastrace=',,,d' sastraceloc=saslog nostsuffix;

However, when closing the SAS process, there can be a pop-up dialog window with the title "SAS Message Log" with entries like this:

ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #6.
ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #5.
ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #4.
ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #3.
ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #2.
ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #1.
ODBC: COMMIT performed on connection #0.

When running SAS interactively, this is a minor nuisance. When running SAS in an automated batch, this can be a serious problem because the dialog will wait indefinitely for human interaction, so the sas.exe process will never terminate.