Managing Generated Web Services

You can select a set of stored processes in SAS Management Console and use the Web Service Maker to deploy them as Web services. The Web Service Maker generates a new Web service that contains one operation for each stored process that you selected. For information about developing Web services, see the SAS BI Web Services: Developer’s Guide. For information about using the Deploy as Web Service Wizard in SAS Management Console, see the product Help.

When you generate a Web service, the Web Service Maker publishes metadata about the new Web service to the SAS Metadata Server. The Web Service Maker stores information about the URL of the Web service, keywords that are associated with the Web service, and which stored processes are used by the Web service. You can view and update some of this information by using SAS Management Console and the Configuration Manager plug-in in. To import or export a generated Web service, use the SAS Management Console folder view.

To delete a Web service that was generated by the Web Service Maker, use SAS Management Console. Navigate to Application Management

Configuration Manager

SAS Application Infrastructure

BI Web Services for Java 9.3

WebServiceMaker. Expand the node, right-click the generated Web service, and select Delete. Deleting a generated Web service removes the metadata that is associated with the generated Web service. This action cannot be reversed.

Note: You must grant permissions on the /System/Services folder to users who want to create SAS BI Web Services. You can also delete a Web service directly from the /System/Services folder. Users need ReadMetadata and WriteMemberMetadata to create and delete Web services. By default, a default group named

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                  Web Services Users

is created, which has these permissions. You can add users to this group to allow them to create and delete Web services, or use your own groups and permission settings.