Publishing Models to a SAS Channel

SAS Decision Manager uses the SAS Publishing Framework to publish models to defined channels. The SAS Publishing Framework notifies subscribers of the publication channel when the models are delivered. You can publish models in the Projects category view. SAS Decision Manager creates a SAS package (SPK) file for the model in a publication channel. A user who subscribes to the publication channel can choose to receive e-mail that includes the SAS package as an attachment.

Note: Before you can deploy a model to a publications channel, a SAS administrator must configure the publication channel in SAS Management Console to publish models as archive (binary .SPK) files to a persistent store location. The archive persistent store location is specified as a physical file location, an FTP server, an HTTP server, or a path in WebDAV.

The Report attribute for a file element in a model template indicates whether SAS Decision Manager includes a file in the SAS package. You use the SAS Package Reader or a file archiver and compression utility, such as WinZip, to view the contents of the SPK file. SAS Decision Manager provides SAS macro programs to extract published models and deploy the models on testing and production scoring servers. The SAS package might contain additional files, depending on the number of file elements in the model template that have a Report attribute.

Note: The REF file contains the URL for a folder location in the project, such as http://MMServer:8080/SASContentServer/repository/default/ModelManager/MMRoot/organizational folder/project/version/Models/model_name/score.sas.

To publish a model to a channel:

Select a project and click .
Select SAS Channel from the publish destination list.
Select the model that you want to publish from the models list.
Select a publication channel from the channel drop-down list.
(Optional) Click More Options to specify a message subject, notes, and user-defined properties. Click Save.
Click Publish.