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Usage Note 31182: How to install the SAS® BI Lineage Plug-in for use with SAS® 9.1.3

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The SAS BI Lineage Plug-in for the SAS® Management Console will scan your repository and determine the connections between found reports, maps, tables, cubes, and stored processes. The plug-in can be installed from the following link:

SAS BI Lineage Plug-in (Preproduction Release 3.1)

The software requirements for this plug-in are listed in the installation instructions.

After installing the plug-in, you will need to create a custom repository that will be used to save the scan output. Below are the steps for creating the repository.

  1. On the machine where your metadata server is running, create a directory to hold the information for the BI Lineage repository. For example, C:\SAS\EBI_SP4_SE29\Lev1\SASMain\MetadataServer\MetadataRepositories\BILineage.

  2. Login to the SAS Management Console and select the Metadata Manager plug-in

  3. Right-click on Active Server and select Add Repository.

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  5. On the Select Repository Type page, select Custom, and then click Next.

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  7. Name the repository BILineage.

    Note: The repository must be named BILineage.



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  9. On the Definition of Data Source page, for the Path, select the path that you created in step 1, and then click Next.

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  11. On the Define Repository Dependencies page, select Foundation and move it to the Repository will depend on box.

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  13. Click Next and then Finish. You should see the following message:
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Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS BI Lineage Plug-inMicrosoft® Windows® for x643.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Microsoft Windows XP Professional3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Windows Vista3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
AIX3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
HP-UX3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
HP-UX IPF3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Linux3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Linux on Itanium3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Solaris3.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
Solaris for x643.19.1 TS1M3 SP4
* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.