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Metadata Export Reference

SAS Data Sets Exported for Shared Metadata

Exporting Host Definitions and Other Shared Metadata describes how to export the metadata defined for SAS libraries, hosts, DBMS connections, and contacts. This section describes the format of the exported data sets.

GENERAL:
    #    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    1    INFOTYPE    Char      8      0    Information Type
    2    OBJNAME     Char     40      8    Name
    3    OBJTYPE     Char     40     48    Type
    4    OBJ_ID      Char     17     88    ID
    5    VERSION     Char      8    105    Version of Metadata
    6    DESC        Char    200    113    Description
    7    PARENTNM    Char     40    313    Owning Parent Name
    8    PARENTTP    Char     40    353    Owning Parent Type
    9    PARENTID    Char     17    393    Owning Parent Metadata ID
   10    PARENTLB    Char      8    410    Owning Parent Metadata Libref
   11    MDLIBREF    Char      8    418    Metadata Libref
   12    MDCREATE    Char     20    426    Metadata Created
   13    MDMODIFY    Char     20    446    Metadata Modified
   14    DTCREATE    Char     20    466    Data Created
   15    DTMODIFY    Char     20    486    Data Modified
   16    NOTES       Char      3    534    Notes Available
   17    NOTESLOC    Char     40    537    Notes Location

LIBRARY:
    #    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
        -----------------------------------------------------------
    1    INFOTYPE    Char      8      0    Information Type
    2    OBJNAME     Char     40      8    Name
    3    OBJTYPE     Char     40     48    Type
    4    OBJ_ID      Char      8     88    ID
    5    VERSION     Char      8     96    Version of Metadata
    6    LOCNAME     Char     40    104    Library Name
    7    LOCDESC     Char    200    144    Library Description
    8    ASSGNBY     Char     30    344    Assigned by
    9    LIBREF      Char      8    374    Libref
   10    ENGINE      Char      8    382    Engine
   11    PATH        Char     40    390    Physical Path
   12    LIBOPTS     Char    200    430    Options

HOST:
    #    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
        -----------------------------------------------------------
    1    INFOTYPE    Char      8      0    Information Type
    2    OBJNAME     Char     40      8    Name
    3    OBJTYPE     Char     40     48    Type
    4    OBJ_ID      Char      8     88    ID
    5    VERSION     Char      8     96    Version of Metadata
    6    HOST        Char     40    104    Host Name
    7    LOCALE      Char     10    144    Locale
    8    REMOTE      Char    200    154    Remote Address
    9    SCRIPT      Char    200    354    Remote Script
   10    COMAMID     Char      8    554    Access Method

DBMSCONN:
    #    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
        -----------------------------------------------------------
    1    INFOTYPE    Char      8      0    Information Type
    2    OBJNAME     Char     40      8    Name
    3    OBJTYPE     Char     40     48    Type
    4    OBJ_ID      Char      8     88    ID
    5    NICKNAME    Char      8     96    DBMS Nickname
    6    SCHEMA      Char     32    104    User/Schema
    7    PROTECT     Char      3    136    Password Protected
    8    LASTMOD     Char     20    139    Password Last Modified
    9    DBMSOPTS    Char    200    159    Connection Options

CONTACT:
     #    Variable    Type    Len     Pos    Label
        ------------------------------------------------------------
     1    INFOTYPE    Char      8       0    Information Type
     2    OBJNAME     Char     40       8    Name
     3    OBJTYPE     Char     40      48    Type
     4    OBJ_ID      Char      8      88    ID
     5    VERSION     Char      8      96    Version of Metadata
     6    PERSNAME    Char    200     104    Person Name
     7    TITLE1      Char    200     304    Title (Primary)
     8    TITLE2      Char    200     504    Title (Secondary)
     9    PHONE1      Char     20     704    Phone (Primary)
    10    PHONE2      Char     20     724    Phone (Secondary)
    11    EMAIL       Char     40     744    Email Address
    12    ADDR1       Char    200     784    Address (line 1)
    13    ADDR2       Char    200     984    Address (line 2)
    14    ADDR3       Char    200    1184    Address (line 3)
    15    ADDR4       Char    200    1384    Address (line 4)

EXTATTRS:
     #    Variable    Type    Len     Pos    Label
        ------------------------------------------------------------
     7    DESC        Char    200     313    Extension Description
     1    INFOTYPE    Char      8       0    Information Type
     2    OBJNAME     Char     40       8    Name
     3    OBJTYPE     Char     40      48    Type
     4    OBJ_ID      Char     17      88    Metadata ID
     6    VALUE       Char     200     113   Extension Value
     5    VERSION     Char      8      105   Version of Metadata
      

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