DI studio pre assigned library

[89sankar]

In DI studio new library wizard, what is preassigned library and generic library type?

[LinusH]

Pre-assigned is when the DI Studio job early on that the library is assigned by central configuration. Either by an autoexec or via the metadataibrary registration.

[Patrick · Accepted solution]

@89sankar

If a library is defined as pre-assigned in SAS Metadata then the library definition gets executed during SAS invocation. 

For pre-assigned libraries via SAS Medatada SAS DIS won't generate a Libname statement in the deployed code.

If using pre-assigned libraries pointing to databases then I'm normally also using libname option defer=yes so that the actual connection to the database only gets established once you actually use a table from that database in your DIS job.

In case your server is locked-down then using pre-assigned libraries allows you to use paths to folders which are otherwise not accessible. That opens up quite a few opportunities when it comes to securing an environment and controlling which users can access what using SAS.

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=bisecag&docsetTarget=p0eo05w7u850lgn1n1i5vquf07vg.htm&docsetV...