Make the Tutorial Files Available

About Making the Tutorial Files Available

The tutorial is designed to use the SAS Metadata Repository. Before you use tables in the SAS Metadata Repository, the tutorial data sets and models must be on the SAS Application Server. An administrator who has Write access to the server and a valid SASApp user ID and password can put the tables there.

Some parts of this tutorial require files other than data sets and models, such as score code and templates. These files do not need to be registered in the SAS Metadata Repository. The drive where you extract the tutorial ZIP file must be accessible to the SAS Metadata Repository and to tutorial users. Tutorial users can also extract tutorial ZIP files to their local computers in order to access the other files.

You can define a data library and register the tables in the SAS Metadata Repository using the Data category view in SAS Decision Manager.

Download the Tutorial Files

The ZIP file QuickStartTutorial.zip contains the tutorial's data sets, models, and score code, and is available at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/edm/. Before you begin the tutorial, extract the tutorial files to a computer that is accessible to the SAS Metadata Server and to SAS Decision Manager users. If your SAS Metadata Server is separate from the SAS Application Server, the files must be placed on the SAS Application Server. Use WinZip to extract the files. If you are using a different extraction program, follow that program's instructions for extracting the files.

To download the files:

Create a folder on the server machine or a network drive to store the tutorial files. The instructions refer to this folder as <drive>.

Note: Users must have Read, Write, and Execute permissions to this folder and subfolders. You can create a group and add the tutorial users to that group to grant the permissions. For more information, see Creating Operating System Accounts for Product Administrators and Users in SAS Decision Manager: Administrator’s Guide.
Save the QuickStartTutorial.zip to <drive>.
Open Windows Explorer to <drive>. Right-click QuickStartTutorial.zip and select Open. Click Open.
Click the arrow on the Unzip button to open the Unzip from WinZip File Folder window.

Note: If you are using a previous release of Windows, from the WinZip window, click the Extract button. The Extract dialog box appears.
Select <drive> from the Unzip to WinZip File Folder window.

Note: If you are using a previous release of Windows, in the Extract to box, select <drive> and click Extract.

You can find the data and models files for each tutorial in the respective tutorial folder (for example, <drive>\QuickStartTutorial\Data or <drive>\QuickStartTutorial\Models).
UNIX only: To complete the tutorial in a UNIX environment, locate the CPORT file. Files that you use to import the data sets into UNIX are located in the QuickStartTutorial.zip file. Instructions and the sample code for performing an import are provided in the Readme.txt file. In order for a transport file to be imported successfully, the encodings of the source and target SAS sessions must be compatible. Use either latin1 or UTF-8 for your SAS sessions. For more information, see CIMPORT Problems: Importing Transport Files in Base SAS Procedures Guide.

Last updated: February 22, 2017