SAS/Warehouse Administrator Metadata Types

WHPROCES

Base metadata type for processes

Category:

Process Types

Parent
Overview
Properties
Using WHPROCES

Parent

WHROOT

Overview

WHPROCES is the base type for all process metadata in SAS/Warehouse Administrator.

Properties

The following table lists all of the properties for WHPROCES and indicates how you can use each property with metadata API methods.

In the table, you can pass properties with a Yes in the Add column to the _ADD_METADATA_ method. Use this method to add a new object.

You can pass properties with a Yes in the Update column to the _UPDATE_METADATA_ method. Use this method to update properties of an existing object.

* Req indicates that the property is required; you must provide a value for this property when you use a given method. * Default indicates that the system will provide a default value for that property if you do not provide one.

Properties with a Yes in the Read Method Expand Parm column are valid with the expand parameter of the _GET_METADATA_ method. This method enables you to get detailed metadata about a property and its associated objects through a single method call.

Properties	Type	Add Method	Update Method	Read Method Expand Parm.
Administrator	L	No	No	No
Cvalue	C	No	No	No
Desc	C	No	No	No
Extended Attributes	L	No	No	Yes
Host	L	No	No	No
Id	C	No	No	No
Metadata Created	C	No	No	No
Metadata Updated	C	No	No	No
Name	C	No	No	No
Note	L	No	No	Yes
NValue	N	No	No	No
Owner	L	No	No	No
Responsibility	C	No	No	No
Step Source Code	L	No	No	Yes

New properties for WHPROCES are as follows:

ADMINISTRATOR

specifies an SCL list of general identifying information about the person who is the administrator of the process object. The list must be of type WHPERSON or a subtype of WHPERSON.

HOST

specifies an SCL list of general identifying information about the host on which this process is to execute. The list must be of type WHHOST or a subtype of WHHOST.

OWNER

specifies an SCL list of general identifying information about the person who owns the process object. The list must be of type WHPERSON or a subtype of WHPERSON.

RESPONSIBILITY

specifies the character string that indicates who is currently responsible for the creation of the code that is associated with this process. Possible values are SAS or USER.

SAS indicates that SAS/Warehouse Administrator is creating this code dynamically based on the current metadata. USER indicates that the user has written the code for this process and is responsible for it.

STEP SOURCE CODE

specifies an SCL list of general identifying information about the source code of the individual step in the process. This source code is the same as is seen when you select View Code Step in the SAS/Warehouse Administrator Process Editor.

The source code information that is returned here will be that of a temporary, working location of a copy of the source code and therefore might be different for each request for this information.

Using WHPROCES

Add	Update	Delete
No	No	No

WHPROCES is a dependent type. To understand how all subtypes of WHPROCES relate to other types, see the process models in Relationships Among Metadata Types.

For details about reading process information, see Reading Process Flow Metadata.

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