Subsetting SAS Software Orders

Overview of Subsetting SAS Software Orders

The SAS Deployment Wizard enables you to break up—or subset—your SAS software order.

Specify Order Options Page

You can create a subset of your order using any or all of the following characteristics:

product operating system
SAS Foundation products
product language

The deployment wizard also enables you to create a listing of the contents for subsetted orders. For more information, see List Contents of Subsetted Orders.

Subset a SAS Software Order

You can break up or subset your SAS software order according to operating system, language, or SAS Foundation. Subsetting your order makes it easier to distribute and conserves disk space.

To subset your order, follow these steps:

Log on to the depot machine as a SAS Software Depot administrator or a user with depot Read, Write, and Execute privileges.

Note: Consider designating one or a few users to serve as SAS Software Depot administrators. Persons needing to deploy SAS software or to apply future SAS software maintenance require depot Read and Execute privileges. Depot administration tasks such as initially creating the depot, storing SAS installation data files, and updating order details require depot Write privileges.
Start the SAS Deployment Wizard. Navigate to the SAS Software Depot's root directory and, depending on your operating system, do the following:
- Windows:
  
  Double-click setup.exe.
- UNIX:
  
  Type ./setup.sh at a command prompt.
- z/OS:
  
  Type ./setup.rexx at a command prompt.
Choose the language in which the SAS Deployment Wizard will display messages and prompts.
Select Create or Add to a SAS Software Depot.
If you have more than one order, choose the order that you want to subset, and then select Next.
We strongly recommend that you update the description for your order and include any notes about your order that might help you distinguish it from any other SAS orders. The SAS Deployment Wizard will display this order information during the SAS installation. Adding a description is the only way to identify what is in your order subset, aside from running the deployment wizard.
When you are finished adding order details, select Next.
Select Subset order contents and further refine your new depot by one or more of the following characteristics:
- product operating system
  
  Pick and eliminate products from being included by the operating systems that they work on.
- SAS Foundation products
  
  Choose SAS products that you want to include in the SAS Software Depot by name. (If you have used command line options to begin the subsetting process, this option appears as By products.)
- product language
  
  Choose SAS products by the language that they will be installed with.
Depending on which characteristics you have chosen to subset your order on, you see various wizard pages where you can refine your depot further. Make your selections and select Next.
Specify a new directory where the deployment wizard will create your new depot and select Next.
Review the Final Review page. If you are satisfied, select Start. Otherwise, select Back and make the necessary changes.
When the new depot has been created, select Finish to close the SAS Deployment Wizard.

List Contents of Subsetted Orders

It is helpful to know exactly which SAS products are contained in an order that has been subsetted. The SAS Deployment Wizard provides a method to enable you to create a listing of all SAS products contained in an order. You generate this listing by using a command line switch when you invoke the wizard:

Windows

setup.exe -listdepot output-pathname
UNIX

setup.sh -listdepot output-pathname
z/OS

setup.rexx -listdepot output-pathname

For example, a command on Solaris might resemble the following:

./setup.sh
                     —listdepot /mydata/order_contents.txt

The deployment wizard executable resides in the root of your SAS Software Depot.

The listing resembles the following:

Date: 2011 Dec 12 10:02:56
Depot: /nfs/mymachine/vol/vol7/sas_software_depot

Order: 099SPS
+ Base SAS [base__93ts1m0__mvs__ne__sp0__1]
+ Base SAS [base__93ts1m0__mvs__w0__sp0__1]
+ Base SAS Help and Documentation [basedoc__93110__prt__xx__sp0__1]
+ Base SAS JAR Files [basejars__93110__prt__xx__sp0__1]
<...>

Order: 099SQ2_2011-12-01-12.27.01
+ Advanced Analytics Common Components [aacomp__93110__wx6__en__sp0__1]
+ DATA Step to DS2 Translator [accelmva__93160__wx6__en__sp0__1]
+ Microsoft Office Access Database Engine 2010 [ace__93112__prt__xx__sp0__1]
- SAS/GRAPH ActiveX Control [activexgraph__93230__win__de__sp0__1]
+ SAS/GRAPH ActiveX Control [activexgraph__93230__win__en__sp0__1]
- SAS/GRAPH ActiveX Control [activexgraph__93230__win__es__sp0__1]

The following list describes the how to interpret the output.

A line beginning with a:

colon (:)—indicates that the order number being listed.
plus sign (+)—indicates that the product is in the order.
minus sign (-)—indicates that the product is in the depot but is not in the specified order.

For more information, see the SAS Deployment Wizard and SAS Deployment Manager User's Guide available at: http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikdeploywizug/64204/PDF/default/user.pdf.