SAS Data
Integration Studio enables you to import and export metadata for individual
objects or sets of related objects. You can work with two kinds of
metadata:
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relational metadata (metadata for
libraries, tables, columns, indexes, and keys) in formats that can
be accessed with a SAS Metadata Bridge
By importing and exporting SAS Package metadata, you can move the metadata for SAS
Data Integration Studio jobs and related objects between SAS Metadata Servers. For
example, you can create a
job in a test environment, export it as a SAS Package, and import it into another instance
of SAS Data Integration Studio in a production environment.
By importing and exporting relational metadata in external formats, you can reuse
metadata from third-party applications, and you can reuse SAS metadata in those applications
as well. For example, you can use third-party data modeling
software to specify a
star schema for a set of tables. The model can be exported in Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM)
format. You can then use a SAS Metadata Bridge to import that model into SAS Data
Integration Studio.
This chapter focuses
on the wizards that are used to import and export individual objects
or sets of related objects in SAS Data Integration Studio. For a more
comprehensive view of metadata management, administrators should see
the metadata management chapters in the SAS Intelligence
Platform: System Administration Guide.