Functions for metadata management

You can work the analytics models and their metadata by using stored procedures. Furthermore, there is a basic security environment for the analytics models.

The stored procedures are available in the (IDAX) module. By using these procedures, you can access the analytics models and their properties.

You can call the stored procedures in one of the following ways:

• Interactively or through SQL scripts from the command line of the IBM® DB2® command line processor

  By using the IBM Data Server Runtime Client, you can catalog a database in the database directory.

• Through external applications that connect to the database by using interfaces like Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) or Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC) to call the stored procedures

The web interface, that is, the Manage Analytic Objects page, provides most of the functions for metadata management. You can access the functions of the metadata management also by using the R interface.

All stored procedures consist of a mandatory one-string parameter that contains pairs of <parameter>=<value> entries. These entries are separated by a comma. The data type of the parameter is VARCHAR(any).

Valid <parameter>=<value> entries are listed in the parameter descriptions for each stored procedure.