Submitting a batch program can be helpful for repetitive
metadata maintenance tasks. You might want to run reports automatically
overnight, when usage of the SAS Metadata Server is low. The language
elements are flexible and can be adapted to almost any metadata maintenance
task.
SAS language elements
that return information about the SAS Metadata Server’s availability
and configuration can be issued from the windowing environment at
any time by users with administrative access to the server.