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When you us SAS Enterprise Miner 6.2 you need to access data to perform the modeling tasks (DOH 
When adding data sources to your EM project you can either add data from a SAS Table or from the Metadata Repository.
If you add it from a SAS Table, then SAS will display all the libnames defined in the autoexec.sas.
If you access the tables via metadata then SAS wil display the metadata libnames, which in an managed environment is our recomended option.
The trick is of course the datasets that are being accessed have probably been created by a modeler using Enterprise Guide. And when the modeler creates them via EG they are not automatically registered in metadata. So therefore they are not automatically available in Enterprise Miner.
Options I can think of:
- Make the modelers use DI Studio as it automatically registers the tables
- Give the modelers access to SAS Management Console and rights to register metadata
- Use the EG addin that lest users register metadata
- Create the libnames in the Autoexec, SAS will automatically display all tables that are present in that directory.
I gotta say im not loving any of those options!
Hit me if you can think of any I have missed.
====Update=====
Chris posted a comment to remind me that the ability to update SAS Metadata is now base functionality in SAS 9.2 / EG 4.3 (Tools->Update Library Metadata). Worked a treat, problem solved! (thanks Chris)
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