Overview of Importing Models

After you create a project and version, the next step is to import models into SAS Model Manager. The Models folder is the container for all of the models under a version. After model evaluation, one of the candidate models will become the champion model. However, the first step is to import the candidate models into your version’s Models folder.

SAS Model Manager provides many methods of importing your SAS models into your project version:

SAS Model Manager also provides SAS macros so that you can use SAS code to import or register SAS models into your project version. For more information, see SAS Model Manager Access Macros and Macros for Registering Models to the SAS Metadata Repository .

Note:

Scorecard models can be imported using the SAS Code Models local files method and the SAS Model Package File import method.
HPFOREST procedure models can be imported using the SAS Metadata Repository import and the SAS Model Package File import. You cannot import PROC HPFOREST models using local files.
High-Performance analytics models that are not created with SAS Enterprise Miner can be registered to the SAS Metadata Repository using the %AA_Model_Repository. These models can then be imported to SAS Model Manager by importing the models from the SAS Metadata Repository and from a SAS model package file..
Before you import COUNTREG procedure and SEVERITY procedure models, create the model score code using the %MM_Countreg_Create_Scorecode macro and the %MM_Severity_Create_Scorecode macro. After the score code is generated, you can use the %MM_Model_Register macro or the local files method to import these models. For more information, see Macros for Generating Score Code.
SAS Model Manager cannot publish models to a database whose Score Code Type model property is set to SAS Program or PMML.
When you import models using the local file method, the table names that you specify as model components must start with a letter or underscore, can contain a period, and cannot be more than 32 characters long. Spaces or special characters (for example, ~`!@#$%^&*()+={}[]|\\:;'<>?/") are not valid in a table name. For more information about the types of model component tables, see Model Template Component Files.
Model component table variable names must start with a letter or underscore, and cannot contain special characters (for example, `~!@#$%^&*()-+=[]\{}|;:'",./<>?) or spaces. Variables with special characters can be used in SAS Model Manager only when the SAS Model Manager administrator has set the Valid Variable Name option to Yes in the SAS Management Console. For more information, see the SAS Model Manager Administrator’s Guide.
Unexpected results might occur if you import a model that was previously exported using SAS Model Manager. A best practice is to import models that were not previously exported by SAS Model Manager.