AUTHLIB Procedure

Overview: AUTHLIB Procedure

The AUTHLIB procedure is a utility procedure that manages metadata-bound libraries. With PROC AUTHLIB, you can do the following:
  • create a metadata-bound library by binding a physical library to metadata within a SAS Metadata Repository
  • modify password and encryption key values for a metadata-bound library
  • purge replaced password and encryption key values that are also known as metadata-bound library credentials
  • repair metadata-bound libraries by recovering security information, secured library objects, and secured table objects
  • remove the physical security information and metadata objects that protect a metadata-bound library
  • report inconsistencies between physical library contents and corresponding metadata objects within a specified metadata-bound library
Users cannot access metadata-bound data sets from any release of SAS prior to the second maintenance release of 9.3.
Note: For a z/OS direct-access bound library that has been bound to metadata, the constraint is slightly broader. Neither the library nor any of its members can be accessed by earlier releases of SAS.