SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office use the SAS Information Maps LIBNAME Engine (IMLE) to open information maps. Because the IMLE does not support OLAP data, you cannot open OLAP-based information maps in SAS Enterprise Guide or the SAS add-in.

When navigating to a folder that contains information maps, OLAP-based information maps are not listed. If you navigate to a folder that contains only OLAP-based information maps, that folder appears to be empty.

There are no plans to support OLAP-based information maps because the results returned from the IMLE would be flattened. Flattened results have no navigational functionality, which eliminates the benefits of having a hierarchical structure.

As an alternative, you can open the cube directly using the OLAP Analyzer.

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