Updating Groups and Roles for SAS Decision Manager 3.1

When you perform a migration or an upgrade, the groups, roles, and capabilities defined in SAS Management Console are preserved in case they have been customized for your site. To take advantage of new roles and capabilities available in SAS Decision Manager, you must modify the settings in SAS Management Console.

Create the Decision Builder User Role

When you install a new deployment of SAS Decision Manager 3.1 or migrate to SAS Decision Manager 3.1 from an earlier version, the Decision Builder User role is predefined for you. If you upgrade your existing deployment to SAS Decision Manager 3.1, you must create this role. For instructions about creating a new role in SAS Management Console, see How to Create a Custom Role in SAS Management Console: Guide to Users and Permissions.
  • On the Capabilities tab, add the Decision and Decision Test capabilities to the role. These capabilities are under Decision Manager 3.1.
    Decision and Decision Test capabilities under Decision Manager 3.1 in SAS Management Console.
  • On the Members tab, add the Decision Manager Users group to the role.

Update Capabilities for Business Rules Manager Roles

Beginning with SAS Decision Manager 2.2, new capabilities have been added. If you migrate or upgrade to SAS Decision Manager 3.1, you must manually add these new capabilities to take advantage of them. The new capabilities are Create Input Term, Create Output Term, and Publish.
The following table lists the roles to which these capabilities are assigned by default.
Role
Capabilities
Business Rules Manager: All Capabilities
Publish, Create Input Term, and Create Output Term
Business Rules Manager: Rule Flow and Rule Set Designer
Publish
Business Rules Manager: Vocabulary and Lookup Designer
Create Input Term and Create Output Term
Last updated: February 22, 2017