Promotion is the movement of selected content from a
source system to an already configured target system. Sometimes called
“partial promotion,” promotion of metadata content is
typically used to support movement across development, test, and production
environments.
Promotion capabilities
in SAS 9.3 are embedded within the SAS folder structure. The ability
of SAS 9.3 to import earlier versions of SAS content means that partial
promotion can be leveraged as part of a strategy for upgrading content
from earlier versions of SAS to SAS 9.3.
Some important enhancements
have been made to support promotion in SAS 9.3. These enhancements
include the ability to do the following:
-
promote more types of metadata
objects
-
target particular metadata objects
to promote incremental changes
-
schedule batch promotions
Promotion supports the
following:
-
movement of selected content
-
cross-platform movement of content
Promotion does not support
the following:
-
some types of SAS content
-
configuration (either in metadata
or in files)