What's New in SAS Management Console 9.3

Overview

SAS Management Console has the following new features and enhancements:

The Search view enables you to search for metadata objects.
The BI Lineage plug-in enables you to scan BI objects and determine the connections among the objects such as reports, maps, tables, cubes, and stored processes that contribute to the selected BI objects.
The server backup and restore facility enables you to back up and restore the contents of the metadata repository, either manually or through a schedule.
The Favorites folder enables you to quickly access metadata objects.
Virtual folders contain saved groupings of types of objects so they can be easily exported. For example, the Users folder contains all user definitions. You can export the Users folder to export all of the user definitions. Virtual folders are not metadata objects, but exist only on the client machine.
Resource templates have been added and revised for server and library definitions.

Search View

A new Search tab has been added to SAS Management Console to provide the capability to search for metadata objects. The search function can locate metadata objects based on any combination of these criteria:

location
name
object type
date created or last modified
keyword
responsibility (name and role)

Searches can be saved. A search folder can be put anywhere. When opened, the folder reruns the search and shows the results of the search as the contents of that search folder.

BI Lineage Plug-in

The BI Lineage plug-in scans the BI objects in a subset of the SAS Folders tree and determines the connections among the objects such as reports, maps, tables, cubes, and stored processes that contribute to the selected BI objects. You can choose any object included in the scan and view the lineage or the reverse lineage for the object.

A lineage consists of the other objects in the scan that contribute to the selected BI object. These objects would cause a change in the selected object if any of them changed. A reverse lineage consists of the other objects that use information from the selected BI object. These are objects that would be affected if the selected object were to change.

Server Backup and Restore

The server backup and restore facility enables you to back up and restore the contents of the active SAS Metadata Server. You can set a schedule for automatic backups, view a list of previous backups, and recover the server contents from a selected backup.

Favorites Folder

The Favorites folder stores shortcuts to selected metadata objects that you use or need access to often.

Virtual Folders

Virtual folders contain all the objects of one type that do not have a parent folder. For example, SAS Folders/System/Servers is a folder containing all servers.

New and Revised Resource Templates

Resource templates have been added for the following server and library definitions:

Sybase IQ server and library
Greenplum server and library
Queue Manager for JMS server
Distributed In-Process Scheduling Server
SAS Framework Data Server

Resource templates have been modified for the following library definition:

Pre-assigned library