Overview of Importing Models

After you create a project and version, the next step is to import models into SAS Model Manager. Your version has a folder hierarchy that contains all of a version's components. The version components include folders for the version Documents, Life Cycle, Models, Reports, Resources, Scoring Tasks, and Performance files.

The Models folder is the container for all of the models in your project version. After model evaluation, one of the candidate models will become the champion model. However, the first step is to import the candidate models into your version’s Models folder.

SAS Model Manager provides many methods of importing your SAS models into your project version:

SAS Model Manager also provides SAS macros so that you can use SAS code to import or register SAS models into your project version. For more information, see SAS Model Manager Access Macros.

Note:

Scorecard models can be imported using the SAS Code Models and SAS Model Package File import methods.
High-Performance analytics models that are not created with SAS Enterprise Miner can be registered to the SAS Metadata Repository using the %AA_MODEL_REPOSITORY. These models can then be imported to SAS Model Manager by importing the models from the SAS Metadata Repository.
SAS Model Manager cannot publish models whose Score Code Type model property is set to SAS Program.
Model component table names must start with a letter or underscore, cannot contain spaces or special characters such as (~`!@#$%^&*()+={}[]|\\:;'<>?/"), and cannot be more than 32 characters.
Model component table variable names must start with a letter or underscore, and cannot contain special characters such as (`~!@#$%^&*()-+=[]\{}|;:'",./<>?). Variables with special characters can be used in SAS Model Manager only when the SAS Model Manager administrator has set the Valid Variable Name option to Yes in the SAS Management Console. For more information, see the SAS Model Manager 12.1 Administrator’s Guide.