Working with Repositories

Starting with Version 7 of SAS, the SAS/EIS metabase facility has been converted to the Version 8 Common Metadata Repository. The Common Metadata Repository is a general-purpose metadata management facility that provides common metadata services to different SAS/EIS applications. The Common Metadata Repository enables SAS/EIS software to share metadata with other SAS products. Although the underlying data storage scheme in the Common Metadata Repository is different from that in the SAS/EIS metabase facility, the metabase facility interface has only a few minor changes, including the following:

• Metabase registrations are contained in a repository.
• There is at most one repository per path.
• Repositories are managed by a repository manager.

If you are moving from Version 6 of SAS/EIS software to a later release, you can use the Common Metadata Repository after performing a one-time setup and conversion. Complete all of the following tasks before you attempt to use SAS/EIS software.

Note: You must have write access to the SASHELP directory to complete the following tasks.

1. Specify the system repository manager location.
2. Set up the system repository manager files.
3. Define the repository to Application Dispatcher Server .
4. Set up the SASHELP repository.
5. Convert Version 6 SAS/EIS metabases.