Hi Jennifer,

Thanks for posting such useful information. Personaly, I didn't know about the METAFIND tool until now so I am really grateful. The doc also mentions a third one, METACON (a font-end GUI to manage the Metadata Connection Profiles used by Metabrowser and Metafind) :

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrmeta/63180/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n19pqa08iiu0c2n1l8ulhp7z7jj4.htm

A few comments:

- It seems (and remains officially unconfirmed) that the Metabrowser edit mode requires to be logged in as "sasadm@saspw". No other accounts, even Unrestricted users, *would* be allowed to be given modification privilege with the Metabrowser. The 'browse mode' is available to every other accounts.

- changing a single value with the Metabrowser is sometimes useful, even required in order to perform post-installation tasks with some HotFixes. However, since (as far as I know) the metabrowser doesn't log its transactions or return codes, I' rather advise the admins to write down a little sas code instead when the query modifies several metadata objects. It helps to track down the error, think up twice before running the code and record somewhere the modification once applied.

- the metadata utility is especially helpful as a OMI XML generating tool. The OMI requests in plain XML are easily generated with a few clicks. Great. But, I remember the same tool back in 9.1 used to carry out large queries against the referential made crash without notice the metadata server (on Windows). No errors or warning left in the metadata server log file or even in the server log (metadata running as a windows service) . So I strongly advise the potential users to run this tool only in sandboxed or private Metadata installments, never in a production area. The authors have wisely put this warning message which pops up when you open the Metadata utility 'Manipulation of repository metadata using the XML Metadata Interface is an advanced feature that could result in inacessible or invalid metadata". This is real warning, not a formal disclaimer of responsibility.

Ronan