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: