This document is intended
for administrators who want SAS to always enforce its metadata-layer
permission requirements before providing access to SAS data. Metadata-bound
libraries provide enhanced protection for Base SAS data (SAS data
sets and SAS views).
Only administrators
who set up and maintain metadata-bound libraries need to know the
information that this document contains. In order to access metadata-bound
data, a connection to the metadata server is required. So a user who
makes a direct request (for example, through a LIBNAME statement)
does have to facilitate that connection. See Metadata Server Connection Options.
Requirements
Administration of metadata-bound
libraries requires Base SAS, a SAS Metadata Server, and SAS Management
Console.
Support for metadata-bound
libraries begins in the second maintenance release of SAS 9.3.