SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

Creating, Moving, Copying, and Deleting Metadata Repositories R Deleting a Metadata Repository 125
SAS-config-dir\Lev1\SASMain\MetadataServer\
MetadataRepositories\repository-name.
NEWRMGR specifies the pathname of the target SAS Metadata Server’s
repository manager. The planned SAS installation typically creates
the repository manager in a subdirectory of the MetadataServer
directory that is named rposmgr. So the pathname might look like
this: SAS-config-dir\Lev1\SASMain\MetadataServer\rposmgr. In
order for %OMAPORT to work, the repository manager pathname
must exist, and the rposmgr directory must contain valid repository
manager data sets for the target host. The SAS Metadata Server
populates the rposmgr directory with repository manager data sets
upon invocation.
Details
Although the %OMAPORT macro does not connect to it, a SAS Metadata Server
must be defined on the target host in order for the macro to work.
To ensure that you are copying the latest version of a repository, you should either
unregister the source repository or pause it to a read-only or offline state before copying
it. This prevents updates to the source repository during the time that it takes to copy
the repository. Later, you can choose to delete or continue using the source repository,
depending on whether your intention is to promote or to replace the source repository.
You can pause, resume, and delete an individual repository from within SAS by using
PROC METAOPERATE. For more information on PROC METAOPERATE, see the
section “METAOPERATE Procedure” in the SAS Open Metadata Interface: Reference.
When you are porting a repository, also keep in mind the following information:
3 The SAS Metadata Server stores password values entered for Login metadata as
variable-length attributes in encrypted form. A variable-length attribute is one
that accepts a value of any length, but stores values that exceed a certain length
as overflow. %OMAPORT cannot convert repositories that contain Login objects
with Password attributes that are stored as overflow. The maximum password
length allowed is 42 characters.
3 In SAS ® 9, the SAS Metadata Server created repository data sets with the encoding
set to "ANY". Beginning in SAS 9.1, the SAS Metadata Server creates repository
data sets with the encoding set to "ASCIIANY" or "EBCDICANY". The macro
cannot distinguish whether the source host data sets are ASCII or EBCDIC unless
the encoding is set correctly. Repository data sets with outdated encoding will
cause the macro to terminate abnormally with an error message.
Deleting a Metadata Repository
There might be times when it is desirable to clear the contents of a repository. SAS
Management Console and PROC METAOPERATE support the following actions for
removing metadata from a repository:
DELETE destroys a repository. DELETE deletes all metadata and metadata
containers and removes the repository’s registration from the
repository manager.
REINITIALIZE deletes the contents of a repository, but enables you to continue
using the repository. REINITIALIZE deletes the metadata in a
repository, but does not remove the repository’s registration from the
repository manager. In SAS Management Console, this option is
called FORMAT.