How to get details of metadata objects in SAS

Question

I have a list of metadata objects from my repository. I've fetched all SASLibrary, PhysicalTable, Jobs objects. Now I need to fetch all their details. Can someone please suggest how can I do that? I am new to SAS DI and need to fetch the details using SAS code. Thanks

Answer 1

ok, assuming you have a dataset (have) which contains those objects, and that the uri is stored in a variable called uri then the following should suffice:

data associations;
  keep assoc assocuri name;
  length assoc assocuri name $256;
  set have;
  rc1=1;n1=1;
  do while(rc1>0);
    /* Walk through all possible associations of this object. */
    rc1=metadata_getnasl(uri,n1,assoc);
    rc2=1;n2=1;
    do while(rc2>0);
      /* Walk through all the associations on this machine object. */
      rc2=metadata_getnasn(uri,trim(assoc),n2,assocuri);
      if (rc2>0) then do;
        rc3=metadata_getattr(assocuri,"Name",name);
        output;
      end;
      call missing(name,assocuri);
      put arc= rc2=;
      n2+1;
    end;
    n1+1;
  end;
run;
proc sort data=associations;
  by assoc name;
run;

proc sql;
create table groupassoc as
  select assoc, count(*) as cnt
  from associations
  group by 1;

data attrprop;
  keep type name value;
  length type $4 name $256 value $32767;
  set have;
  rc1=1;n1=1;type='Prop';
  do while(rc1>0);
    rc1=metadata_getnprp(uri,n1,name,value);
    if rc1>0 then output;
    n1+1;
  end;
  rc1=1;n1=1;type='Attr';
  do while(rc1>0);
    rc1=metadata_getnatr(uri,n1,name,value);
    if rc1>0 then output;
    n1+1;
  end;
run;
proc sort data=attrprop;
  by type name;
run;

This information can also be obtained using metabrowse in Base SAS, or the Metadata Explorer (a free web app by Boemska, which I helped to build).