What’s New in SAS Environment Manager 2.1

Overview

SAS Environment Manager has the following new features and enhancements:
  • Support for managing metadata access has been added.
  • The user definition process has been simplified, with all users created in SAS metadata, rather than in SAS Environment Manager.
  • Synchronization between users defined in certain groups in metadata and user definitions in SAS Environment Manager has been added.
  • A new account for communication with the SAS Environment Manager agent has been added.
  • Support for creating folders and editing the properties of metadata objects has been added.
  • Support for metadata clusters has been added.

Managing Metadata Access

Selecting an object in the Administration tab enables you to manage metadata access for that object. The tasks that you can perform include the following:
  • applying access control templates (ACTs) to metadata objects
  • applying explicit controls to objects
  • managing repository-level controls
  • maintaining ACTs

Metadata User Synchronization

Users in SAS Environment Manager are now mapped to users created in SAS metadata. During installation, three user groups are created in SAS metadata to contain SAS Environment Manager users. Users that are members of these groups are mapped to user definitions in SAS Environment Manager with corresponding roles. A synchronization function has also been added. When users are added to one of the supported groups in metadata, the synchronization function creates a corresponding user definition in SAS Environment and assigns the user to the correct role.

Agent Communication Account

A new user ID, sasevs@saspw, is now used to communicate with the SAS Environment Manager agent. The ID is created in metadata and in SAS Environment Manager during installation.

Metadata Object Management

In addition to viewing the properties of metadata objects, some of those properties can now be edited. Properties that can be edited include the following:
  • Name
  • Description
  • Keywords
  • Responsible parties
  • Extended attributes
Folders to contain metadata objects can also be added, updated, or deleted.
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