SAS/Warehouse Administrator Metadata Types

WHJOBCAT

Metadata type for scheduler catalog source file entries

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Text File Types

Parent
Overview
Properties
Using WHJOBCAT

Parent

WHSRCCAT

Overview

The WHJOBCAT type models the metadata for SAS catalog entries that are defined for jobs, such as entries for user-supplied source code, tracking options, and user-defined prologs and epilogs.

Properties

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

In the table, you can specify properties with a Yes in the Indirect Add column when you indirectly add one object through another, as described in the documentation for the _UPDATE_METADATA_ method. Use this approach to add a new dependent object. For details, see Using _UPDATE_METADATA_.

You can pass properties with a Yes in the Update column to the _UPDATE_METADATA_ method, as described in the documentation for this method. Use this method to update properties of an existing object. For details, see Using _UPDATE_METADATA_.

* 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. * Auto supplied means that the property is automatically supplied; any value that you specify for such a property is ignored.

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	Indirect Add	Update Method	Read Method Expand Parm.
Cvalue	C	Yes	Yes	No
Desc	C	Yes	Yes	No
Entry	C	Yes	Yes	No
Extended Attributes	L	Yes	Yes	Yes
Full Entry	C	No	No	No
Id	C	* Req	* Req	No
Job Role	C	* Auto supplied	No	No
Library	L	Yes	Yes	No
Metadata Created	C	No	No	No
Metadata Updated	C	No	No	No
Name	C	* Default	Yes	No
Note	L	Yes	Yes	Yes
NValue	N	Yes	Yes	No
Objects	L	No	No	No
Responsibility	C	Yes	Yes	No

New properties for WHJOBCAT are as follows:

JOB ROLE

indicates the role that this object serves for the job. The possible values are TRACKING PROLOG, TRACKING EPILOG, USER PROLOG, and USER EPILOG.

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.

Using WHJOBCAT

Add	Update	Delete
No	Yes	Yes

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

Use of _DELETE_METADATA for this type deletes SAS/Warehouse Administrator metadata, not the corresponding catalog entries.

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