For the SAS Workspace Manager, administration tasks
include creating and saving LoginDefs, ServerDefs, and LogicalNameDefs.
There are several alternatives for the administration of definitions.
Definitions can be administrated directly through the IWorkspaceManager
interfaces. These interfaces can write to LDIF files. Note that the
workspace manager will read or write only the attributes that are
of interest to it. If you are using files, then any existing definitions
or attributes that are not used by the workspace manager are deleted,
so caution should be used. Additional attributes that are defined
for these objects are ignored.
A text editor is used
to modify the LDIF files.
Note that it is not
necessary to perform any administration at all. Definitions can be
created, used, then discarded without ever being persisted.