SAS Clinical
Standards Toolkit supports the submission of SAS processes using predefined
metadata files. These files are introduced and described in
Metadata File Descriptions. The key metadata file that supports this functionality
is the SASReferences file. This SAS data set essentially identifies
all of the key inputs and outputs for any SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit
process. Each unique process can have an associated, unique SASReferences
file. However, SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit offers many standardization
aids, so more generic SASReferences files are preferable.