Found the SAS® 9.2 Open Metadata Interface documentation

I find myself referring to the SAS® Open Metadata Interface documentation on a very regular basis and have been keenly awaiting the availability of said documentation for SAS 9.2. I have been scanning the SAS 9.2 Product Documentation A-Z Listing every now and then hoping to see it appear one day but so far it has been absent. I just assumed it hadn’t been released yet. Today, however it occurred to me that perhaps I should try using the support.sas.com search facility instead (how come I didn’t think of that before I wondered). Expecting only hits relating to the SAS 9.1.3 docs, I was very pleasantly surprised to find SAS 9.2 Open Metadata Interface links in the results too.

In case anyone else is looking for this documentation, and to help me find it again, here are the relevant documents I found:

SAS® 9.2 Language Interfaces to Metadata
This document does appear in the A-Z index under Base SAS (and has for a while I think). It can be found here:

SAS® 9.2 Open Metadata Interface: Reference and Usage
This document is not yet in the A-Z index but can be found here (as discovered by searching):

SAS® 9.2 Metadata Model: Reference
This document is not yet in the A-Z index but can be found here (as discovered by searching):

SAS® 9.2 Java Metadata Interface (JavaDoc)
This JavaDoc can be found (and has for a while) in the SAS AppDev Studio focus area at http://support.sas.com/rnd/gendoc/bi92/api/metadata/index.html

Now, of course, I am kicking myself wondering how long all of this documentation has actually been available while I have been waiting for it to appear in the A-Z list :) Can’t dwell on that now though – I have lots of reading ahead.

BTW – does anyone know if there is any published documentation for the SAS 9.2 Management Console Plug-in API available yet?

2 thoughts on “Found the SAS® 9.2 Open Metadata Interface documentation”

  1. Paul, This is a great post because it made me think. I was curious about your troubles and tried to locate the documentation without using search. I wasn’t successful. We are looking into that now. When I learn more, I’ll try to blog about it at Key Happenings on support.sas.com (blogs.sas.com/supportnews).

    As for the Management Console Plug-in API, I found a Usage Note that indicates in SAS 9.1, SAS included the “Guide to Building SAS Management Console Plug-ins” with the installation. The note instructs you to check the doc.zip file. Read the entire note here: http://support.sas.com/kb/12489. I hope that helps.

  2. Hi Renee,

    Thanks for your comment and for following up on the SAS Open Metadata Interface documentation.

    I hadn’t seen that particular usage note before but I am familiar with the SAS Management Console 9.1 doc.zip file – it was one of the key documents that got me started on plug-in development and ultimately led to the creation of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins product. I am currently working on a new version of our product specifically for SAS 9.2 and this is what prompted me to look for the equivalent SAS Management Console 9.2 plug-in documentation.

    SAS Management Console 9.2 doesn’t seem to have a corresponding doc.zip file and the SAS 9.2 BI API Documentation (via the SAS AppDev Studio 3.4 Developers Site) at http://support.sas.com/rnd/gendoc/bi92/api/index.html no longer has any JavaDoc for “SAS Management Console Plug-in Framework”. You will see what I mean if you compare that page to the older SAS 9.1.3 BI API Documentation (via the SAS AppDev Studio 3.3 Developers Site) at http://support.sas.com/rnd/gendoc/bi/api/index.html. I tried the support.sas.com search facility this time too :)

    I guessed that the SAS 9.2 Management Console Plug-in API docs haven’t been published yet. I have been quite successful with my development so far without the updated documentation, but am keen to check it out when it does become available to see if there are any new features I can take advantage of.

    Thanks for the time you have taken so far to look into this. I am happy to follow it up with tech support here in Australia if that is more appropriate.

    Cheers
    Paul

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