Benefits of SAS Lineage

A number of important new features have been added to the lineage and impact analysis feature:
  • SAS has created a shared store for all relationship information, called the SAS relationship service. Most SAS products and object types are now integrated into the SAS relationship service.
  • There is also the ability to import content from third-party sources.
  • The relationships web viewer has been enhanced to add a number of new views for displaying information stored in the service.
  • There are also views for all Relationships and for Data Governance. These views are named All Relationships, Governance, and Impact Analysis.
You can also create your own views using the filtering capabilities of the viewer. This can help you subset the information to only the objects and relationships that you want to see. In addition, there are helpful features such as grouping node sets, which enable you to expand on demand, and an overview window with details of objects.