Installing Third-Party Software :: SAS(R) 9.3 Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide

Overview of Installing Third-Party Software

In the pre-installation checklists that accompany your SAS 9.3 order, you are instructed to install required third-party software. The checklists point you to supplemental instructions for other third-party software. If your order contains alternate or supplemental instructions for certain products, these products are listed in product readme files found in your SAS Software Depot under install_doc/order-number/ReadmeFiles.

The following topics are contained in this section:

Install Third-Party Products Using the Software Web Site

SAS maintains a third-party software Web site to help you do the following:

determine what version of the product to install
obtain the product, if you do not already have it
find installation instructions
learn about any patches required

Note: Some third-party software ships with your SAS order. For more information, see Install Third-Party Products Using the SAS Software Depot. If you are installing Platform Process Manager, Platform LSF, or Platform Grid Management Service, you must use the installation instructions and installation programs provided in your SAS order. For more information, see Installing Platform Suite for SAS in SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.

To install the Java Development Kit or a Web application server, complete these steps:

Go to the Third-Party Software site at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/index.html.
Select the link for the product (or type of product) that you are installing.

There are columns that either have links directly to the vendor's site, or an indication that the third-party software ships with SAS.
Install the product.

For most installations, you can use the instructions provided by the vendor. For products that are more complex to install (such as the Web application servers) the Third-Party Software site contains links to brief installations instructions. These instructions are not meant to replace the vendor documentation. However, they will enable you to create a simple configuration that will work well with your SAS software.

Note to users in Russia: SAS cannot export the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to Russia. You will need to locate the appropriate link on the Third-Party Software Web site and download the JRE. Install it in the default location, and it will be ready for use when you install your SAS software.

Install Third-Party Products Using the SAS Software Depot

In the pre-installation checklists that accompany your SAS 9.3 order, you are instructed to install required third-party software. The checklists point you to supplemental instructions for other third-party software. If your order contains alternate or supplemental instructions for certain products, these products are listed in product readme files found in your SAS Software Depot under: install_doc/order-number/ReadmeFiles.

Some third-party products are shipped with SAS 9.3. Such products’ installation files and documentation are located in the SAS Software Depot under the third_party directory.

third_party Directory in the SAS Software Depot

Platform Suite for SAS is an example of one third-party application that you install in this way. To determine whether any of your third-party software is distributed with your order, refer to your SAS Software Summary that resides in your SAS Software Depot in your order_number directory under install_doc. For example:

C:\SAS
                     Software Depot\install_doc\

order_number\ordersummary.html

Note: The recommendation is that you migrate the scheduling server and SAS sequentially and not try to migrate both SAS and Platform Process Manager in one step. For same-machine migrations, the recommendation for migrating Platform Process Manager installations is that you first move to version 7 on your current version of SAS before migrating to SAS 9.3. For new-machine migrations, the recommendation is that you install the latest version of Platform Process Manager on the new machine before migrating to SAS 9.3.

Moving Platform Suite for SAS Custom Calendars

If you install a version of Platform Suite for SAS on a different machine than the previous version was installed on, you must manually copy the Process Manager calendar metadata to the new location. The new machine must have access to the calendar files on the old machine (such as through FTP, SCP, or shared network storage).

To copy the calendar metadata, follow these steps:

Make sure that you have installed Platform Suite for SAS on the new machine.

For more information, see Installing Platform Suite for SAS in SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.
Log on to the old Process Manager machine.
Change to the calendar subdirectory that is directly under the work directory.
For example:
- Windows:
  
  cd C:\Program Files\Platform Computing\Platform Process Manager\work\calendar
- UNIX:
  
  cd /opt/Platform Computing/Platform Process Manager/work/calendar
Copy all files except those ending in @sys to the corresponding calendar directory on the new machine.