In reply to Ronan.

Reply from Jennifer Parks

I am able to utilize the Metabrowse tool using my SAS Administrator account (which is part of the SAS Administrators group in our 9.2 installation but not an unrestricted user).

As i noted at the beginning of the post, I'm writing toward the perspective of a SAS Administrator, versus a SAS Programmer and so I wanted to focus on non-programmatic approaches. Many SAS Administrators (such as myself) have a background in system and application administration and are not SAS programmers.

I agree with you about the tremendous power that is vested in the Metadata Utility and that its use should be highly limited in production environments and monitored carefully. The situation that I presented - needing to update hundreds of hostnames buried inside the metadata in a production environment and lacking any other practical tools for doing so - is one such instance where the tool is the best choice for making these changes.