What's New in SAS Data Integration Studio 4.6

Overview

The main enhancements for SAS Data Integration Studio 4.6 include the following:

Support for exporting lineage metadata to DataFlux Business Data Network
Experimental support for sending Hadoop Pig code to a SAS® LASR™ Analytic Server in HDAT Format

Support for Exporting Lineage Metadata to DataFlux Business Data Network

DataFlux Web Studio is a web-based application with separately licensed modules that enable you to perform data management tasks. One of these modules, DataFlux Business Data Network, enables you to manage relationships between business terms and technical information, such as the metadata for data sources and business rules. The relationships between business terms and technical information provide an important starting point for data governance projects.

If your site has licensed DataFlux Business Data Network, then you can use the following features in SAS Data Integration Studio:

You can select jobs in the Export Lineage window and export metadata about SAS Data Integration Studio jobs and related objects to DataFlux Web Studio. DataFlux Business Data Network users can then link terms to these jobs and related objects.
You can right-click a table in the Folders tree or the Inventory tree, then you can select Analyze in Web Viewer. If you provide the appropriate credentials, and if metadata for the selected table was previously exported to DataFlux Web Studio, then you can view any relationships that have been defined for that table in DataFlux Business Data Network.

Experimental Support for Sending Hadoop Pig Code to a SAS LASR Analytic Server in HDAT Format

SAS Data Integration Studio 4.6 has experimental support for sending Hadoop Pig code to a SAS LASR Analytic Server in HDAT format (Objective Analysis Package Data format). This support is implemented with an experimental UDF that enables the output of the Pig code to be written in the HDAT format to be consumed by the SAS LASR Analytic Server.