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Data Administration
 

What’s New in Data Administration for the SAS 9.4 Intelligence Platform

Overview

This document focuses on the SAS Intelligence Platform and establishing connectivity to your data sources (and data targets). Here are the changes and enhancements:

  • integration of SAS with the DataFlux suite
  • support for limiting access to libraries
  • new localize table batch tool
  • discontinued support for SAS Data Surveyor products
  • support for on-disk AES encryption
  • documentation enhancements

Integration of SAS with the DataFlux Suite

SAS has now fully integrated the DataFlux suite of data quality, data integration, data governance, and master data management solutions. Incorporating the DataFlux brand into SAS helps you build a more integrated information management approach.

Instead of being licensed separately, DataFlux products are now being combined into SAS software offerings that include other SAS products as well. For example, the SAS Data Management Advanced offering includes Base SAS and the SAS Metadata Server as well as DataFlux Data Management Studio and Data Management Server. These new offerings replace the current SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server offering and enable customers to choose from a broader array of data management products.

Some DataFlux products are changing their names to SAS, and others will in the future. In SAS 9.4, DataFlux Federation Server is now SAS Federation Server, and DataFlux qMDM Solution is now SAS MDM.

Support for Limiting Access to Libraries

In SAS 9.4M1, you can limit the scope and activities of a SAS server by putting it in a locked-down state. The locked-down SAS server can access only specified directories and files.

New Localize Table Batch Tool

The localize table batch tool creates or modifies localization metadata for data tables. There are three locale models:

  • row per locale
  • table per locale
  • master/detail tables

Discontinued Support for SAS Data Surveyor Products

Starting with SAS 9.4, the following products are no longer supported:

  • SAS Data Surveyor for Siebel
  • SAS Data Surveyor for Salesforce.com
  • SAS Data Surveyor for Oracle Applications
  • SAS Data Surveyor for Clickstream Data

These products continue to be supported in SAS 9.3 and SAS 9.2.

Support for On-disk AES Encryption

In the second quarter of 2015, the ability to enable on-disk AES encryption for libraries on a Hadoop server was added to the SAS Management Console. You can enable or disable encryption on individual library definitions. You can also specify that the library definitions on this server inherit this encryption setting.

Documentation Enhancements

SAS 9.4M6: Changes and Enhancements

In SAS 9.4M6, the following new sections were added:

  • Use SAS Environment Manager 2.6 Administration to Establish Connectivity to SAS LASR Analytic Server
  • Establishing Connectivity to an Aster Server
  • Establishing Connectivity to Several Different SAS/ACCESS Servers
  • Establishing Connectivity to PI System Server

A new chapter entitled "Library Options" was added.

SAS 9.4M5: Changes and Enhancements

In SAS 9.4M5, the following new section was added:

  • Establishing Connectivity to a Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) Server

SAS 9.4M4: Changes and Enhancements

In SAS 9.4M4, the following new section was added:

  • Establishing Connectivity to a Redshift Server

SAS 9.4M3: Changes and Enhancements

In SAS 9.4M3, the following new sections were added:

  • Hadoop Data
  • Establishing Connectivity to an Impala Server

In SAS 9.4M3, if SAS Visual Analytics is part of your deployment, you can create and maintain SAS LASR Analytic Servers and SAS LASR Analytic Server libraries using the SAS Environment Manager. The following sections were added:

  • Stage 1: Register a SAS LASR Analytic Server Using SAS Environment Manager
  • Stage 2: Register a SAS LASR Analytic Server Library Using SAS Environment Manager
  • Register the Base SAS Library Using SAS Environment Manager
  • Create a SAS/SHARE Remote Engine Library Using SAS Environment Manager

SAS 9.4M2: Changes and Enhancements

In SAS 9.4M2, the following sections were added:

  • Establishing Connectivity to an ODBC Database Using Microsoft Windows NT Authentication
  • Establishing Connectivity to an OLEDB Database Using Microsoft Windows NT Authentication
  • Establishing Connectivity to a Teradata Database
  • Establishing Connectivity to a SAS LASR Analytic Server
  • Establishing Connectivity to a SASHDAT Library

Generic instructions for using the User Manager plug-in within the SAS Management Console were added:

  • Define the DBMS User
  • Define the DBMS User Group

Starting in SAS 9.4M2, a new support site for Hadoop was added to the SAS Third-Party Software Reference site.

Last updated: August 6, 2026