90 91 CHAPTER 7 Main Tasks for Users Preliminary Tasks for Users 93 Overview 93 Starting SAS Data Integration Studio 93 Specifying Java Options 93 Specifying the Plug-in Location 93 Specifying the Error Log Location 94 Specifying Message Logging 94 Creating a Metadata Profile (for Users) 94 Preparation 94 Default Metadata Repository 95 Task Summary 95 Opening a Metadata Profile 95 Selecting a Default SAS Application Server 96 Main Tasks for Creating Process Flows 96 Registering Sources and Targets 97 Overview 97 Registering DBMS Tables with Keys 98 Importing and Exporting Metadata 98 Introduction 98 Importing Metadata with Change Analysis 99 Additional Information 99 Working With Jobs 99 Creating, Running, and Verifying Jobs 99 Overview 99 Prerequisites 100 Check Out Existing Metadata That Must Be Updated 100 Create and Populate the New Job 100 Update the Job as Needed 100 Run the Job 101 Check the Log 101 Verify Job Outputs 101 Check In the Metadata 102 Customizing or Replacing Code Generated for Jobs 102 Deploying a Job for Scheduling 102 Enabling Parallel Execution of Process Flows 102 Generating a Stored Process for a Job 103 Improving the Performance of Jobs 103 Maintaining Iterative Jobs 103 Monitoring the Status of Jobs 103 About Job Status Monitoring 103 Displaying Job Status 104 92 Contents Chapter 7 Using the New Job Wizard 104 Working With SAS Data Quality Software 104 Create Match Code and Apply Lookup Standardization Transformations 105 SAS Data Quality Functions in the Expression Builder Window 105 Data Validation Transformation 105 Updating Metadata 105 Updating Metadata for Jobs 105 Overview 105 Update Metadata for a Job 106 Updating Metadata for Tables or External Files 106 Overview 106 Update Metadata for a Table or External File in a Tree View 106 Update Metadata for a Table or External File in a Process Flow 107 Using a Physical Table to Update Table Metadata 107 Updating Metadata for Transformations 108 Overview 108 Update the Default Metadata for a Transformation 108 Other Updates to the Metadata for a Transformation 108 Setting Name Options for Individual Tables 109 Overview 109 Prerequisites 109 Task Summary 109 Viewing Data in Tables, External Files, or Temporary Output Tables 110 Overview 110 View Data for a Table or External File in a Tree View 110 View Data for a Table or External File in a Process Flow 110 View Data in a Transformation’s Temporary Output Table 111 Viewing Metadata 111 Viewing Metadata for Jobs 111 Overview 111 View Metadata for a Job 112 Viewing Metadata for Tables and External Files 112 Overview 112 View Metadata for a Table or External File in a Tree View 112 View the Metadata for a Table in a Process Flow 112 Viewing Metadata for Transformations 113 Overview 113 View Metadata for a Transformation 113 Working with Change Management 113 About Change Management 113 Adding New Metadata 114 Preparation 114 Task Summary 114 Next Tasks 114 Checking Out Existing Metadata 114 Preparation 114 Task Summary 115 Next Tasks 115 Checking In Metadata 115 Preparation 115 Task Summary 115 Additional Information About Change Management 116 Working with Impact Analysis and Reverse Impact Analysis (Data Lineage) 116 Working with OLAP Cubes 116 Main Tasks for Users Starting SAS Data Integration Studio 93 Overview of OLAP Cubes 116 OLAP Capabilities in SAS Data Integration Studio 116 Prerequisites for Cubes 117 Additional Information About Cubes 117 Additional Information About User Tasks 117 Preliminary Tasks for Users Overview After administrators complete the tasks that are described in Chapter 6, “Main Tasks for Administrators,” on page 53, you must perform several tasks before you can begin work in SAS Data Integration Studio. Starting SAS Data Integration Studio Start SAS Data Integration Studio as you would any other SAS application on a given platform. For example, under Microsoft Windows, you can select Start Programs SAS SAS Data Integration Studio. You can also start the application from a command line. Navigate to the SAS Data Integration Studio installation directory and issue the etlstudio.exe command. If you do not specify any options, SAS Data Integration Studio uses the parameters specified in the etlstudio.ini file. The following sections contain information on options you can specify on the command line or add to the etlstudio.ini file. Specifying Java Options To specify Java options when you start SAS Data Integration Studio, use the javaopts option and enclose the Java options in single quotation marks. For example, the following command starts SAS Data Integration Studio on Windows and contains Java options that specify the locale as Japanese: etlstudio javaopts ’-Duser.language=ja -Duser.country=JP’ Specifying the Plug-in Location By default, SAS Data Integration Studio looks for plug-ins in a plugins directory under the directory in which the application was installed. If you are starting SAS Data Integration Studio from another location, you must specify the location of the plug-in directory by using the pluginsDir option. The syntax of the option is etlstudio pluginsdir <plugin path> 94 Creating a Metadata Profile (for Users) Chapter 7 Specifying the Error Log Location SAS Data Integration Studio writes error information to a file named errorlog.txt in the working directory. Because each SAS Data Integration Studio session overwrites this log, you might want to specify a different name or location for the log file. Use the following option to change the error logging location: etlstudio logfile ’<filepath/filename>’ Specifying Message Logging You can specify the server status messages that are encountered in a SAS Data Integration Studio session by using the MessageLevel level_value option. Valid values for level_value include the following: ALL all messages are logged CONFIG static configuration messages are logged FINE basic tracing information is logged FINER more detailed tracing information is logged FINEST highly detailed tracing information is logged. Specify this option to debug problems with SAS server connections. INFO informational messages are logged OFF no messages are logged SEVERE messages indicating a severe failure are logged WARNING messages indicating a potential problem are logged Creating a Metadata Profile (for Users) A metadata profile is a client-side definition of where the metadata server is located. The definition includes a machine name, a port number, and one or more metadata repositories. In addition, the metadata profile can contain log on information and instructions for connecting to the metadata server automatically. You must open a metadata profile before you can do any work in SAS Data Integration Studio. This section describes how a user could create a metadata profile for the example data warehouse. Preparation After an administrator has created one or more metadata repositories, the administrator provides the SAS Data Integration Studio user with the following information: the network name of the metadata server the port number used by the metadata server a login ID and password for that server the name of the repository that should be selected as the default metadata repository for this profile . page 53, you must perform several tasks before you can begin work in SAS Data Integration Studio. Starting SAS Data Integration Studio Start SAS Data Integration Studio as you would any other SAS. Analysis (Data Lineage) 116 Working with OLAP Cubes 116 Main Tasks for Users Starting SAS Data Integration Studio 93 Overview of OLAP Cubes 116 OLAP Capabilities in SAS Data Integration Studio 116 Prerequisites. Start Programs SAS SAS Data Integration Studio. You can also start the application from a command line. Navigate to the SAS Data Integration Studio installation directory and issue the etlstudio.exe command. If