Define a SAS Library

In order for SAS Information Map Studio to access a data table, the table's metadata must be defined in a SAS Metadata Repository. You can use Data Library Manager in SAS Management Console to create metadata definitions for data libraries and their associated tables. The definitions are then stored in the SAS Metadata Repository and available for applications to use.

The information that is specified for each library definition corresponds to options in a SAS LIBNAME statement. For information about the correlation between the options that are specified in Data Library Manager and those that are specified in the LIBNAME statement, see the Data Library Manager Help.

Note: SAS Management Console is required only for the purpose of registering your data in the metadata repository—it is not required for creating an information map. If you do not have access to this software, contact your metadata administrator for help with the steps in this chapter.

To define a SAS library for this scenario:

Start SAS Management Console if you haven't already done so.
1. Select StartProgramsSASSAS Management Console 9.2 from your Windows desktop.
2. When you start SAS Management Console, the application either uses the default connection profile (if you specified a default profile during a previous session), or it displays the Connection Profile dialog box.
  
  To choose a profile in the Connection Profile dialog box, select Open an existing connection profile. From the drop-down list, select the connection profile that you want to use for this scenario, and click OK.
3. If you saved your user ID and password in the connection profile, or if you are using Integrated Windows authentication, then the SAS Management Console main window will be displayed and you can proceed to the next step. Otherwise, you will be prompted to specify your user ID and password in order to log on to the metadata server and display the SAS Management Console main window.
Select the Plug-ins tab in the SAS Management Console main window and expand Data Library Manager.
Select the Libraries folder, and then select ActionsNew Library from the menu bar to start the New Library Wizard.
Select the library type that you will be working with. Selecting a library type is equivalent to specifying an engine in a LIBNAME statement. Because you are working with SAS tables in this scenario, select SAS BASE Library from the SAS Data folder and click Next.
On the next page, enter Sample Employee Data in the Name field. The name that you enter is used to identify the library in SAS Management Console—it is not the libref that is specified in the LIBNAME statement.
Specify a description (optional) and a SAS folder location for the library. Click Next.
The next page lists the SAS Application Servers that have already been defined by using Server Manager in SAS Management Console. Use the arrow button to select the application server that you want to use to access the Sample Employee Data library and its tables. Click Next.
On the next page, enter the following values for the library's properties:
1. In the Libref field, specify a one- to eight-character libref for the SAS library. For example, you can enter SAMPDATA.
2. In the Engine field, make sure that BASE is selected as the SAS engine to use when accessing SAS tables in this library.
3. In the Path Specification section, specify the location of your tables on the SAS Workspace Server that is associated with the application server that you will use. Any paths that have already been specified for other libraries are listed in the Available items list. Use the arrow button to move a path from the Available items list to the Selected items list. For this scenario, the tables that you use are, by default, located in C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.2\core\sample. (The tables might be located in a different directory, depending on where SAS is installed on your workspace server machine.)
  
  If the path for these tables is not in the Available items list, click New to display the New Path Specification dialog box, and then specify the path. Click OK, and then click Next.
The last page of the wizard lists all of the information that you specified in the wizard. To make any corrections, click Back. When all of the information is correct, click Finish to define the library.

Tip
After you define the library, it is added to the bottom of the list of libraries in the Libraries folder. To sort the libraries in alphabetical order, you must refresh the window.