SQL DICTIONARY Tables for the Information Maps Engine

DICTIONARY.INFOMAPS Table

The SQL DICTIONARY.INFOMAPS table contains a row for each information map that is available through the Information Maps engine. The table contains the following variables:

LIBNAME: Information Maps engine libref for the information map
MEMNAME: SAS name for the information map
MAPNAME: Information map name
PATH: Location of the information map within the metadata server
DESCRIPTION: Description of the information map

The following example shows how you can query the DICTIONARY.INFOMAPS table to retrieve information about the available information maps:

libname mymaps infomaps mappath="/Users/myUserID/My Folder";

proc sql;
   select i.mapname, i.path
      from DICTIONARY.INFOMAPS as i;

Output from DICTIONARY.INFOMAPS Table Query

Information Map Name                                Information Map Path
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Employee Statistics Sample                          /Users/myUserID/My Folder

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