Creating and Accessing Metadata That Describes Application Elements :: SAS(R) 9.3 Open Metadata Interface: Reference and Usage

A SAS Open Metadata Interface client that accesses application metadata has the following characteristics:

The client connects to the SAS Metadata Server with a communication standard that is appropriate for the client and the IOM-based server.
The client specifies the SAS namespace to access the metadata types for application elements, such as servers, tables and columns.
The client issues SAS Open Metadata Interface method calls to create or access instances of the metadata types that are stored in metadata repositories.

For server connection information, see Connecting to the SAS Metadata Server.

For a description of the metadata types in the SAS namespace, see “Alphabetical Listing of SAS Namespace Types” in the SAS Metadata Model: Reference.

The SAS Open Metadata Interface provides the IOMI server interface for reading and writing metadata objects. For more information about IOMI, see Metadata Access (IOMI Interface).

We recommend that clients use the SAS Java Metadata Interface to read and write metadata instead of using IOMI methods directly. For reference information about the SAS Java Metadata Interface, see the documentation at support.sas.com/93api. For usage information, see Using the SAS Java Metadata Interface.

SAS 9.3 supports a SAS type dictionary that affects the SAS Metadata Model metadata types that clients should select to represent common and shared application entities. Objects need to store specific attribute values to ensure that the dictionary is used in metadata queries. For more information about the SAS type dictionary, see Using Interfaces that Read and Write Metadata in SAS 9.3.