Overriding Locations in the Information Map Transformation

Use this feature to write maps to alternate locations in preparation for manually changing information map features, as needed, with SAS Information Map Studio.

For the Information Map transformation, the user can override the metadata folder path to which the information map is written. If the user specifies a value for the SAS macro variable OVERRIDEMAPPATH, the information map is written to that metadata location. The metadata folder that you plan to use should already exist, and permissions should be set so that the appropriate users can read from and write to that path.

For example, a job that contains one or more Information Map transformations is deployed as DT_Perf_Sentry_1_System_Information_Map.sas. In this case, the following SAS program can be used to create the same map but in the specified overridden location:

%LET overrideMapPath=/User Folders/My Name/My Folder;             
%INCLUDE ‘DT_Perf_Sentry_1_System_Information_Map.sas’;