What’s New in SAS Environment Manager 2.3

Overview

SAS Environment Manager has the following new features and enhancements:
  • The user definition process has been simplified. All users are now created in SAS metadata, rather than in SAS Environment Manager.
  • Synchronization between users and subgroups defined in certain groups in metadata and user definitions in SAS Environment Manager has been added.
  • The SAS Environment Manager agents now use a new default account for communication with the server.
  • Support for creating a new Access Control Template (ACT) has been added
  • Support for metadata clusters has been added.
  • Support for managing metadata access has been added.
  • A plug-in for managing a SAS Grid Manager grid has been added
  • Support for creating folders and editing the properties of metadata objects 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:
  • creating access control templates (ACTs) (available in the second maintenance release for SAS 9.4)
  • updating ACTs
  • applying ACTs to metadata objects
  • applying explicit controls to objects
  • managing repository-level controls
  • specifying SELECT permission conditions that give users access to some but not all of the data within a physical table (available in the first maintenance release for SAS 9.4)

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 and subgroups 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 or subgroups 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.

Internal Services Account

A new user ID, sasevs@saspw, is now used for communications between the SAS Environment Manager agent and server, to enable plugins to access SAS Metadata Server content, and for batch and other processes to access SAS Environment Manager. 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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