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 Copyright © 2010, SAS Institute Inc. , Cary, NC, USA All rights reserved. For a hardcopy book: No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, SAS Institute Inc. For a Web download or e-book:Your use of this publication shall be governed by the terms established by the vendor at the time you acquire this publication. [. . . ] Right-click the Information Map transformation in the process flow diagram. 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. In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes to delete the information map. Note: If you delete an information map and not the Information Map transformation that created it, a new information map with the same name will be created the next time the corresponding job runs. Update an Information Map from a Template To update the filters and data items of an information map so that they conform to the template table from which the aggregation table was created, perform the following steps: 1. Navigate to the job that contains the aggregation table that was created from a template table. Double-click the job to open it on the Diagram tab of the Job Editor window. From the Transformations tree of SAS IT Resource Management, locate and expand the ITRM Transformations folder. Then drag and drop the Information Map transformation object onto the open job on the Diagram tab of the Job Editor window. Connect the aggregation table to the left side of the Information Map transformation. If an aggregation table that was created from a template is not connected to the Information Map transformation, an error message is displayed. Right-click the box that represents the Information Map transformation and select Update map definition from template. The following message is displayed: "This action will replace all the filters & data items. When the job that contains the Information Map transformation is run, the information map will be created with the filters and data items that correspond to the template table. Note: The information map transformation might have a source table that is not an aggregation table, or might have a source aggregation table that was not constructed from a supplied template. Likewise, an aggregation table that was constructed from an aggregation template, but which has been modified by the user to have a different name, might not be recognized as having an information map template. Information Map Objects That Are Generated by the Adapter Setup Wizard What Information Map Objects Does the Adapter Setup Wizard Generate? The Adapter Setup wizard creates jobs that contain Information Map transformations for many of the adapters that SAS IT Resource Management supports. Using the Adapter Setup Information Map Objects That Are Generated by the Adapter Setup Wizard 219 wizard is the most convenient way to create Information Map transformations and information maps for selected adapters. When the Adapter Setup wizard is run, it creates objects that pertain to the staging and aggregating of data, and in the case of most supported adapters, the objects that pertain to the creation of information maps, such as the following: · · an information map job. [. . . ] Staging Jobs Fail Due to Lack of Space Staging job fails due to lack of space on the WORK library on Windows. The location of the Work library defaults to the user's C: drive. The space on this drive might not be adequate for running a staging job. 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. [. . . ]