SAS Scanner Guide
Follow these steps to configure a connection to SAS.
Step 1: Configure the Connection
Create a new connection in Admin UI https://<hostname>:<port>/manta-admin-gui/app/index.html?#/platform/connections/
to enable IBM Manta Data Lineage to analyze SAS. You will need one SAS connection in Manta for each SAS
server. The connection requirements and privileges are listed in SAS Integration Requirements.
Properties That Must Be Configured
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Connection name — User-defined field to identify the SAS connection.
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SAS dictionary ID — User-defined name that will be used in the workflow for analysis. This name has to match the directory/folder on the operating system where the SAS files will be copied to.
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SAS server name — User-defined name to represent the SAS server in Manta Repository Server. This name will show up as server name for SAS in Manta Repository Viewer.
Note: Since the SAS scanner does not automatically extract SAS files from your SAS server, this could be any user-defined name. It does not have to match the actual SAS server name.
Step 2: Optional Properties
In cases where your program uses SAS datasets from a library that is not explicitly defined within the same program, you will need to use an SAS extractor as a preprocessor to provide the metadata from SAS datasets as described in SAS Providing Manual Inputs. To do so, configure the following.
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SAS extractor subdirectory — The default value is Extractor, but it can be changed to any user-defined value. This value should match the name of the directory on Manta Server where the SAS metadata extractor code will be placed.