Thanks again, Angus. Sorry for the delayed response...I've been away for 2 weeks. Your feedback has been immensely helpful, but I'm clearly missing some important concepts (maybe details). Your help has triggered a zillion questions, and I don't think this is the right forum to get ALL these answers. I need to do more homework first. But could you help one more time by directing me to any documentation (books, articles, or whatever) that would outline the basic SAS components I'd need to get started with using SAS DMS and generally how they'd be configured (high-level is good enough for now). If it helps you to know, we have a Metadata Server installed and are using it with SAS EG to work between desktops and Linux servers. So part of what we need is there. But I'm still unclear about what other SAS server software is needed to support SAS's Data Management products. I'm excited to come up to speed on this. Thanks immensely. Gary
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