var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "SAS Metadata Bridges are available through the software offerings SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server and SAS Data Integration Server. You can use SAS Metadata Bridges to import and export metadata through SAS Management Console or SAS Data Integration Studio, which are components in these offerings.

If you are licensing one of these offerings for the first time, you get the choice of several SAS Metadata Bridges and a number of generic components that are included in the SAS Metadata Bridge for General Industry Standards

To access definitions on a metadata server, you must first connect to the metadata server. For COM connections to the metadata server, the Object Manager and SAS use a metadata configuration file called the system configuration file. The system configuration file contains information about how to access the metadata server."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }