The SAS
Intelligence Platform provides tools that enable you to promote individual
metadata objects or groups of objects from one metadata server to
another, or from one location to another on the same metadata server.
You can also promote the physical files that are associated with the
metadata.
The promotion
tools include:
-
the Export to SAS Package wizard
and the Import from SAS Package wizard, which are available in SAS
Data Integration Studio, SAS Management Console, and SAS OLAP Cube
Studio.
-
the batch import tool and the batch
export tool, which enable you to perform promotions on a scheduled
or repeatable basis. These tools provide most of the same capabilities
as the SAS Package import and export wizards. For information about
the batch import tool and the batch export tool, see the "Using the
Promotion Tools" chapter in the
SAS Intelligence Platform:
System Administration Guide.
The SAS
Package import and export wizards enable you to reuse the metadata
for tables, jobs, and other objects. For example, you can develop
a job in a test environment, export it, and then import the job into
a production environment. These wizards enable you to perform the
following tasks:
-
export the metadata for one or
more selected objects in a tree view.
-
export the metadata for all objects
in one or more selected folders in the Folders tree.
-
export access controls that are
associated with exported objects (optional).
-
export data, dependent metadata,
and other content that is associated with exported objects (optional).
-
change physical paths and other
attributes when you import metadata (optional). For example, you can
export the metadata for a SAS table, and upon import, change the metadata
so that it specifies a DBMS table in the target environment.