You can select a job
in the Inventory tree or the Folders tree and deploy it as a SAS stored
process. Code is generated for the stored process and the code is
saved to a file in a source repository. Metadata about the stored
process is saved to the current metadata server. The stored process
can be executed as required by requesting applications.
You can
use stored processes for Web reporting, analytics, building Web applications,
delivering result packages to clients or the middle tier, and publishing
results to channels or repositories. Stored processes can also access
any SAS data source or external file and create new data sets, files,
or other data targets supported by the SAS System.
Here are
some of the main tasks that are associated with deploying a job as
a stored process: