Hi Gerry,

great article!
I am a big fan of the SAS metadata environment and I think, that the batch relationship reporting tools offer a nice additional benefit.
However, I unterstand your article so, that it is not possible to access "live" metadata, but rather
metadata that were up-to-date at runtime of the batch script?

Lately I have spent a lot of time with the SAS metadata model and i developed a tool,
that enables you to read out metadata and to visualize them with a few clicks. In the first version i focussed on the functions for the SAS admin.

For this reason I am interested in your feedback.

If you like have a look at the product description:
http://www.flitcon.de/metadataviewer/flitcon_metadata_viewer_brochure_english.pdf

or watch the youtube video: