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What's New in SAS Information Map Studio 2.1
Overview of SAS Information Map Studio
SAS Information Map Studio has been updated with new functionality and usability enhancements that make the application more flexible and easier to use.
- General user interface enhancements help not only with ease of use, but they also enable you to perform tasks more quickly and efficiently.
- Relationship information can now be imported from the ETL process directly into your information maps.
- Newly added information map administration features enable you to perform such tasks as resource analysis and access control management from within SAS Information Map Studio.
- The new Options window enables you to set preferences and select user options for SAS Information Map Studio.
- The data item, filter, prompt, and stored process interfaces all include new or improved functionality, including a completely redesigned prompt window interface.
Details about SAS Information Map Studio
General User Interface Enhancements
The SAS Information Map Studio 2.1 user interface includes the following new and enhanced features that help you to work more efficiently within the application:
- new cut, copy, and paste functionality for information map items
- new find facility
- new expand and collapse functionality for tree views
- enhanced ability to move and reorder items within an information map
- new and improved icons, including icons that distinguish between relational and OLAP information maps and icons that indicate primary and foreign keys
- new functionality to enable you to switch metadata profiles from within the application
Security
From within SAS Information Map Studio, you can now modify the access controls for an information map and view the access controls for a stored process.
Administration Tools
A set of administration tools has been added, which enables you to perform the following tasks:
- generate a report that lists the information maps and their associated metadata resources
- generate a report that lists the information maps that have unresolved resources, that are unavailable for impact analysis, and that are unreadable
- make information maps available to SAS ETL Studio for impact analysis and generate a report that lists the information maps that were successfully made available
User Options
The Options window has been added, which enables you to set the following user preferences for your SAS Information Map Studio sessions:
- display options that enable you to specify where you want to display the SAS Information Map Studio window and what you want to see displayed in it
- naming rules for data items
- initial relationship creation options for automatically creating relationships based on metadata definitions
- custom properties options for displaying custom properties and for specifying a custom properties template
Data Items
The following enhancements have been added to simplify the process of creating a data item:
- pre-populated lists of user-defined formats. You can now select one or more user-defined formats from a list of available formats.
- default classification determination. When you insert a relational data item, the data type of the table column now determines the default classification (category or measure) that is assigned to the data item.
Filters
The filter definition windows have been updated to provide you with the following enhancements:
- improved display of compound filter expressions, including the real-time rendering of Boolean precedence groupings in the Filter expression area
- new functionality that enables you to choose from lists of date, time, and timestamp values
- support for prompts that can accept multiple values
Prompts
The completely redesigned Prompt Properties window provides you with the following new features:
- the ability to create a list of prompt values by running a query on one or more data items
- support for prompts whose values are dynamically generated at run time
- display of both unformatted and formatted prompt values
- support for prompts that can accept multiple values
Stored Processes
The updated Stored Processes window enables you to view the properties and parameters of a stored process. You can also view the properties of the parameters.