What's New in SAS Model Manager 12.1

Pre-installation and configuration tasks have been added to create and configure the new Model Manager database, before the Software Deployment Wizard is run. The Model Manager database is used to store operational, historical, and auditing data for SAS Model Manager. The pre-installation tasks also include information to help you create operating system accounts for product administrators and users, remind you to install the Web application server, and how to determine the location of the SAS environment URL. For more information, see Pre-Installation Tasks.

Configuration tasks have been added so that you can integrate SAS Workflow with some of the model management tasks that are normally performed in the SAS Model Manager client. Workflow process definitions can be configured to use model management components with the workflow activities.

You can also associate milestones with workflow activities as part of the workflow process definition. Activities that are associated with a milestone appear on the Workflow Milestones tab in the version details section of the SAS Model Manager client. The Workflow Milestone report has also been added to the available reports.

For more information, see Configuring SAS Workflow for Use with SAS Model Manager.

Additional steps were added to the post-installation verification and configuration steps. The steps added are for configuration of Model Manager Java Services Options, and for configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and client-certificate authentication for a Web application server is configured to use HTTPS. For more information, Post-Installation Verification and Configuration of SAS Model Manager.

More options have been added to the Model Manager Java Services Options setting in SAS Management Console. The configurations can be modified for reporting, scoring metadata tables usage when publishing, SAS code debugging, SAS system options, In-database connection and publishing options, and performance options for the High-Performance Analytics procedure. For more information, see Configuring Model Manager Java Services Options.