Metadata Object Identifiers and URIs

What Is a URI?

For many of the metadata language elements, you can specify a metadata resource by its name or identifier. Some of the language elements accept a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which is a standard from SAS Open Metadata Architecture. The following URI formats are supported:

ID: is the metadata object identifier. Some language elements support the 8-character identifier, and some support the full 17-character identifier, which references both the repository and the object. Examples are A9000001 and A52V87R9.A9000001. In general, the ID format is the least efficient.
type/ID: is the metadata type name and metadata object identifier. Some language elements support the 8-character object identifier, and some support the full 17-character repository and object identifier. Examples are SASLibrary/A9000001 and SASLibrary/A52V87R9.A9000001. In general, the type/ID format is the most efficient.
type?@attribute='value': is the metadata type name, followed by a search string. For metadata language elements, the search string is in the form of an attribute='value' pair. Examples are SASLibrary?@libref='mylib' and SASLibrary?@engine='base'. Some language elements require the entire value to be enclosed in quotation marks.

See the language elements in this book for important usage details.

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