Overview

After you define a Warehouse Environment, you can define metadata records that can be shared by data stores and other elements within that Environment. For example, if Jane Jones is the administrator for all of the data stores in a given Data Warehouse, you can create a contact record for Jane and save it as part of the global metadata for the parent Environment. You could then include Jane's contact record in the metadata for the data stores in the Warehouse without retyping her information each time.

If you create the main global metadata items first, you can simply select them from a list rather than having to stop and create a host definition in the middle of creating a data store, for example. In each Warehouse Environment, you will define at least some of the following global metadata types:

• SAS library definitions (including SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME definitions and Jobs Information library definitions)

• host definitions

• DBMS connection profiles

• contact records

• scheduling server definitions

Note:   The basic steps for maintaining global metadata are described in the online Help. To display the relevant online Help, in the SAS Help contents, select Help on SAS Software Products, then select Using SAS/Warehouse Administrator Software. Select Setting Up Your Warehouse Environment, then Maintaining Warehouse Environments, then Maintaining Global Metadata. In addition, you can display Help for most SAS/Warehouse Administrator windows by selecting Help on the window.   

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