User manual SAS IT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 3.2 ADMINISTRATORS GUIDE

[. . . ] Administrator's Guide SAS IT Resource Management 3. 2 ® SAS® Documentation The correct bibliographic citation for this manual is as follows: SAS Institute Inc. SAS® IT Resource Management 3. 2: Administrator's Guide. SAS ® IT Resource Management 3. 2: Administrator's Guide Copyright © 2010, SAS Institute Inc. , Cary, NC, USA All rights reserved. Produced in the United States of America. [. . . ] Then enter the Data Item Name, Description, Classification (Category or Measure), Type (Character or Numeric), Format, and Expression fields for the new data item. Note: Do not enter double quotation marks in the Expression field. Click OK to add the new data item to the information map. · Delete a data item from the information map by highlighting it and clicking Delete. 7. Click OK to save the parameters for the Information Map transformation and the information map that it will generate. You will not be able to view the new information map that the modified transformation creates until the corresponding job has run. Note: SAS Information Map Studio can also be used to modify the information maps that are generated by Information Map transformations in SAS IT Resource Management. However, the information maps that are generated by Information Map transformations in an information map job are regenerated each time that job is run. Therefore, any modifications that are made to an information map using SAS Information Map Studio might be overwritten and lost when the ETL job is rerun. To avoid this situation, modify a copied version of the automatically generated information map and save that modified version under a different name so that it will not be overwritten by the ETL processes. Delete an Information Map Transformation from a Job If you delete an Information Map transformation from a job, the information map itself is not deleted and your reports should continue to run correctly. However, if you later change a table, you must regenerate the associated information map in order to reflect the table changes in the report and thus avoid errors in the report. Do not delete an Information Map transformation unless you are certain that this action will not affect your reporting needs. If you choose to delete an Information Map transformation from a job, perform the following steps: 1. Navigate to the job that contains the Information Map transformation that you want to delete. Double-click the job to open it on the Diagram tab of the Job Editor window. Right-click the Information Map transformation in the process flow diagram. To save the modified job, from the menu bar select File ð Save. Note: If you delete an Information Map transformation, the information maps that it created previously are not deleted. Delete an Information Map Deleting an information map can create errors in reporting if your reports use the information map that you delete. Do not delete an information map unless you are certain that this action will not affect your reporting needs. If you choose to delete an information map, perform the following steps: 1. Navigate to the location that contains the information map that you want to delete. (The default location for information maps is the folder that contains the information map 218 Chapter 10 · Information Maps job that creates the information map. However, you might have chosen to store your information map in another location. ) 2. [. . . ] To resolve this issue, edit the sas. cfg file to point WORK to a location that has more space. Aggregation Jobs Require Lengthy Processing Times Some aggregation jobs that contain rank variables or joined columns can require a long time to finish. For best results, minimize the number of rank variables or joined columns that you specify in an aggregation transformation. Information Map Jobs Require Lengthy Execution Times Executing a job that contains multiple information maps can take a long time. Information maps facilitate the process of generating reports on your IT data and are the required input to SAS Web Report Studio. [. . . ]