15 Sentinel Common Components

This documentation describes 1.6.0 of the Sentinel Common Components Program Package (Sentinel Common Components). This program is a SAS® program package which provisions commonly used metadata to subsequently run distributed SAS packages—e.g., location of Sentinel Common Data Model (SCDM) formatted tables, SCDM table names, refresh version, and minimum and maximum dates of data-completeness. This simplifies the set-up of subsequent Sentinel distributed packages, such as the Query Request Package (QRP) and the Mother-Infant Linkage (MIL) QA Package.

For more information on how these programs use Common Components in their setup set-up, please see:

While Sentinel Common Components is embedded in the QA and QA MIL Packages, it is also capable of running as a standalone program. This documentation describes the standalone version of the program.

Table 15.1 describes the modification history of this package.

Table 15.1: Sentinel Common Components History of Modifications
Version Date Modification
1.6.1 04/02/2025
  • Minor bug fixes.
1.6.0 02/29/2025
  • Makes partitioning specific parameters available to cc_macvars.
1.5.0 06/06/2024
  • Removes SCDM Snapshot as a module in this program.
  • Fixes a bug where Common Components was assigning a length of 1 to the MILTALBLE macro variable for Phase A
1.4.1 02/10/2022 Bug fix to ensure DPLOCAL contents produced by CC are not deleted after SCDM Snapshot run.
1.4.0 01/13/2022 Modify snapshot package to:
  • include race/ethnicity output
  • incorporate ability to exclude list of patients
1.3.0 07/29/2021 Integrate snapshot package
1.2.2 09/03/2020 Add new standard SOC SAS option FMTERR to master program
1.2.1 04/27/2020 Bug fix for creation of SCDM version in testing functionality
1.2.0 04/10/2020 Updates required for SCDM v8.0.0
1.1.0 09/01/2019
  • Add a signature file as an output table
  • Bug fix for macro variables quoting
  • Minor fix for misnumbered test groups
1.0.3 04/05/2019 Minor bug fix to fix typo causing all 4 subfolders to be set to same location as DPLOCAL for production requests
1.0.2 03/15/2019 Minor bug fix to CC utility functionality to create all table macro variables
1.0.1 02/24/2019 Minor bug fix to CC utility functionality to create SAS product macro variables
1.0.0 01/31/2019 Initial release