What's New

What's New in SAS Management Console 9.2

Overview

SAS Management Console has the following new features and enhancements:

The Folders view enables you to view and manage folders and the metadata objects contained in the folders.
Server monitoring functions enable you to view server logs and other information about server operation (such as sessions, spawned server activity, and clients).
Functions are provided to validate server definitions.
Functions are provided to stop and resume servers and spawners.
Functions are provided to analyze and repair the metadata definitions in a SAS Metadata Repository.
Resource templates have been added and revised for server and library definitions.
The Schedule Manager plug-in provides a visual editor for creating and managing deployed flows.
The new Plug-in Manager plug-in enables you to control which plug-ins are available to users based on the roles that you assign to the users.
The User Manager plug-in adds support for roles.

Folders View

The Folders view displays the folders that are used to store SAS metadata objects. The objects that are contained in the folders are the same objects that are displayed in the Plug-Ins tab under individual plug-ins. Folders are provided for individual users, for shared data, for system use, and for specific SAS products. The Folders view also enables you to export and import SAS packages and to create new stored processes.

Server Monitoring

When you connect to server objects in the Plug-Ins view, additional tabs might appear in the display area for the object you select. These tabs enable you to access the server monitoring functions for the connected server or spawner. These functions provide information about the server or server component (for example, displaying the log for a server or the clients for a metadata server). The server monitoring tabs that are available differ depending on the type of server and server component to which you are connected.

Server Validation

Selecting the Validate action for a logical server definition attempts to establish a connection to the server. If a connection is established, additional actions (such as submitting SAS code to the sever, retrieving the metadata repositories, or accessing a database) are performed, depending on the server type.

Server Control

You can stop, resume, pause, and quiesce some types of servers and spawners. You must first connect to the server or spawner.

Metadata Analysis and Repair

The Metadata Analysis and Repair function analyzes your metadata for problems and repairs the problems that are found. The analysis tools provided are:

Verify Associations
Verify Metadata Files
Orphaned ACEs
Orphaned Properties
Orphaned Property Groups
Orphaned Property Types
Verify Authentication Domains
Verify Permissions

New and Revised Resource Templates

Resource templates have been added for these library and server types:

SAS Information Map library
SAS Table Server library
Queue Manager for Microsoft Message Queuing server
Queue Manager for WebSphere Message Queue server
SAS Table Server
SAS In-Process Services scheduling server

In the second maintenance release after SAS 9.2, resource templates have been added for NeoView and Netezza libraries. If you install SAS for the first time using this release, the resource templates are loaded automatically. If you install the maintenance release after installing an earlier release of SAS, the resource templates are not added automatically. You must add them manually.

Other library and server resource templates have been revised. For details about the information required for each resource template, see the online Help for the resource template.

Visual Flow Editor

The visual flow editor in the Schedule Manager plug-in enables you to visualize the structure of a flow and see how the dependencies and jobs connect with one another. You can use the editor to:

add file events, time events, or job events as dependencies
add additional deployed jobs
add sub-flows
add gate nodes for conditional processing
schedule the flow

Plug-In Manager

The Plug-In Manager plug-in enables you to select which plug-ins use role-based access. Role-based access enables you to specify which plug-ins are available for each SAS Management Console user, based on the user's role. You can also specify that the default behavior is to not load plug-ins unless the user's role specifically allows it.

Role Support

The User Manager plug-in adds support for roles. A role manages the availability of application features such as menu items, and any user who is a member of a role has all of that role's capabilities.

Stored Processes and Prompts

In the second maintenance release after SAS 9.2, the following enhancements were made to the macro variables that are generated from prompts:

The PROMPT-NAME_LABEL macro variable is generated for date prompts.
The PROMPT-NAME_MIN_LABEL and PROMPT-NAME_MAX_LABEL macro variables are generated for date-range prompts.
For time and timestamp prompts, the format of the PROMPT-NAME_LABEL macro variable has changed.
For time-range and timestamp-range prompts, the format of the PROMPT-NAME_MIN_LABEL and PROMPT-NAME_MAX_LABEL macro variables have changed.

For more information, see SAS Stored Processes: Developer’s Guide.

What's New in SAS(R) 9.2