Validating the SAS Clients :: SAS(R) 9.3 Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide

Overview of Validating the SAS Clients

This section describes how to validate the usability of the following SAS 9.3 clients:

SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3
SAS Information Map Studio 4.2
SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2

Validate SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

This topic describes a few simple steps that you can perform to verify that SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 can access and use migrated SAS 9.1.3 tables.

Note: SAS provides a migration wizard that enables you to migrate multiple projects at one time to the SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 format. If you have SAS Add-In 4.3 for Microsoft Office installed, the wizard also migrates files used with this SAS product, such as Microsoft Word files or Microsoft Excel files. For more information, see Administering SAS Enterprise Guide in SAS Intelligence Platform: Desktop Application Adminstration Guide.

To validate that your SAS Enterprise Guide deployment can use migrated SAS 9.1.3 tables, follow these steps:

Start and log on to SAS Enterprise Guide as a user such as sasdemo: StartAll ProgramsSASSAS Enterprise Guide 4.3.
In the Welcome dialog box, select New Project.
From the menu bar, select ViewSAS Folders.
Expand My Folder to see the tables from SAS 9.1.3.
Double-click a table to add it to the project.
Exit SAS Enterprise Guide without saving the project.

Validate SAS Information Map Studio 4.2

This topic describes a few simple steps that you can perform to verify that SAS Information Map Studio 4.2 can access and use migrated SAS 9.1.3 tables.

To validate that your SAS Information Map Studio deployment can use migrated SAS 9.1.3 tables, follow these steps:

Start SAS Information Map Studio: StartAll ProgramsSASInformation Map Studio 4.2.
In the Connection Profile dialog box, select a connection profile.
In the leftmost pane (Resources -- Application Servers), expand a data library, and then click and drag one of the tables.
From the middle pane (Selected Resources), click and drag a table into the rightmost pane (Information Map Contents).
From the menu bar, select ToolsRun a Test Query.
In the Test the Information Map dialog box, in the Available items list, double-click an item.

The item displays in the Selected items list.
Click Run Test.

A progress indicator displays.

If the test is successful, a results window displays.
Exit SAS Information Map Studio without saving the information map.

Validate SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2

This topic describes a few simple steps that you can perform to verify that SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2 can access and use migrated SAS 9.1.3 tables.

To validate that your SAS Data Integration Studio deployment can use migrated SAS 9.1.3 tables, follow these steps:

Start SAS Data Integration Studio: StartAll ProgramsSASSAS Data Integration Studio 4.2.
In the Connection Profile dialog box, select a connection profile.
In the left pane of the SAS Data Integration Studio window, select the Inventory tab.
Expand the Library node, and expand a particular library icon that contains tables from SAS 9.1.3. Verify that these tables are present.
From the menu bar, select ToolsOptionsSASSAS Data Integration Studio 4.2.
In the Options dialog box, click the SAS Server tab.
In the Server drop-down list, choose the SAS application server that you migrated, and click Test Connection.

If the connection is properly functioning, you should see an alert box that displays the following message:
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Connection to the server was successful.
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Exit SAS Data Integration Studio.