Prerequisites for Running the Define Performance Task Wizard

Before you run the Define Performance Task wizard, the environment must be set appropriately as follows:

After the environment is set, you can run the Define Performance Task wizard.

The Define Performance Task wizard generates report code for the champion model in the default version.

You can determine the default version and the champion model by looking for the icon next to the default version name and the champion model name.

If the champion model is not set, right-click the champion model name and select Set as Champion. The icon appears next to the champion model name and the version for the champion model.

You can determine the challenger model by looking for the icon next to the challenger model name.

If the challenger model is not set, right-click the challenger model name and select Flag as Challenger. The icon appears next to the challenger model.

Performance monitoring is valid only for a project that is associated with a classification model function and has a binary target, or for a prediction model function that has an interval target. You should define only performance tasks for classification and prediction models. The champion model must have a function type of classification and must contain a binary target or a function type of prediction and must contain an interval target.

From the Projects category view, select the champion model name and verify that the Function property in the specific properties section is set to Classification or Prediction. For models that are created using SAS Enterprise Miner, select the targetvar.xml file in the model folder and verify that the LEVEL attribute is set to BINARY for a classification model or to INTERVAL for a prediction model.

The Define Performance Task wizard requires that the performance data either be registered in the SAS Metadata Repository, using SAS Management Console or that a libref is defined from the Edit Start-up Code window to access the performance data from a SAS library. After the performance data set is available, update the Default Performance Table model property. From the Projects category view, select the champion model name. Click the value field of the Default Performance Table property, click the ellipsis button, and select a performance data set from the Select Table window.

If your performance table is not available for selection, do one of the following actions:

Several properties must be defined in order to generate the model performance reports. Verify that the appropriate project and model properties are set. Here is a list of properties.

In order to create the model performance reports, the model output variable must be mapped to the project output variable if the corresponding project variable and the model variable have different names. To map these output variables, follow these steps: