https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Programmatically-finding-a-user-s-own-repository-in-the-SAS/m-p/987189#M380048 <P>I have a lot of code which trawls through the metadata repository to find, well, all sorts of useful stuff: tables, columns, dependencies, transformation templates - that sort of thing. But it only works reliably on the Foundation repository - which is&nbsp;<EM>mostly</EM> what I want to look at anyway.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>But I'm introducing a new facility for other developers to be able to look at the results of jobs, and for that the code needs to look at the developer's own repository - what they've checked out in DI, for example. How can I work out from the datastep metadata functions what repository they're using? Not all repository ids map on to userids, unfortunately. I'm most of the way there with&nbsp;<EM>metadata_resolve</EM>, but not quite.</P> Mon, 04 May 2026 22:03:55 GMT LaurieF 2026-05-04T22:03:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Programmatically-finding-a-user-s-own-repository-in-the-SAS/m-p/987189#M380048 <P>I have a lot of code which trawls through the metadata repository to find, well, all sorts of useful stuff: tables, columns, dependencies, transformation templates - that sort of thing. But it only works reliably on the Foundation repository - which is&nbsp;<EM>mostly</EM> what I want to look at anyway.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>But I'm introducing a new facility for other developers to be able to look at the results of jobs, and for that the code needs to look at the developer's own repository - what they've checked out in DI, for example. How can I work out from the datastep metadata functions what repository they're using? Not all repository ids map on to userids, unfortunately. I'm most of the way there with&nbsp;<EM>metadata_resolve</EM>, but not quite.</P> Mon, 04 May 2026 22:03:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Programmatically-finding-a-user-s-own-repository-in-the-SAS/m-p/987189#M380048 LaurieF 2026-05-04T22:03:55Z