What's New in SAS Information Map Studio 3.1

Overview

SAS Information Map Studio has been updated with new functionality and usability enhancements that make the application more flexible and easier to use.

The relationship and filter interfaces have been redesigned to include new and improved functionality.
Prefilters and required tables are now supported.
Row-level permissions can now be applied to relational data sources (including SAS data sets).
New user options and a new custom properties viewer are now available.
The Properties tab in the SAS Information Map Studio main window has been removed.

Redesigned Relationship Interfaces

The redesigned relationship interfaces include the following enhancements:

a new interface for describing join cardinality
an updated graphical user interface that displays industry-standard notation for join type and cardinality
identification of columns that are defined as unique keys in the metadata
support for non-equijoins
support for join expressions that are created by the INFOMAPS procedure

Redesigned Filter Interfaces

The redesigned filter definition dialog boxes include the following enhancements:

support for assigning general and authorization-based prefilters that enable you to pre-screen and subset data before any other part of a query is run
support for relative date, time, and timestamp values
support for date, time, and timestamp prompts
support for identity-driven properties that are stored in the metadata and that can be used in a filter as the values against which target data is compared
support for filter expressions that are created by the INFOMAPS procedure

Support for Required Tables

Relational data sources can now be designated as required so that they are used in every query that is generated from an information map.

Security Enhancements

The application's security features include the following enhancements:

support for row-level permissions, which is implemented by exploiting the following new features:
- enforcement of the Read permission (as set in the metadata) for information maps
- the ability to assign filters either universally (as general prefilters) or to specific identities (as authorization-based prefilters)
- the ability to apply user-specific filtering without defining a separate filter for each user (identity-driven filters)
- required tables
relocation of the Authorization tab that was in the Information Map Properties dialog box to the new Authorization dialog box. You can open the Authorization dialog box by selecting Tools Authorization from the menu bar.

Support Changes for Prompt Values

Support has changed for the following types of prompt values:

Prompts based on date, time, and timestamp values are now supported.
Dynamically generated prompt values are no longer supported.

New User Options

New options have been added for hiding join type and cardinality notation.

Redesigned Administrative Tools Interface

The Administrative Tools dialog box has been renamed, redesigned, and now includes a new custom properties viewer.

Improved Access to Diagnostic Settings

The Log On dialog box has been redesigned to provide faster access to your diagnostic settings. Also, the new default location of the log file is the Windows Profiles directory for your user ID.

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