About the Upgrade Process

You can upgrade from SAS Decision Manager 2.2 to SAS Decision Manager 3.1.
When you are upgrading to SAS Decision Manager 3.1 on the third maintenance release of SAS 9.4, you must complete additional installation and configuration steps. SAS Decision Manager 3.1 includes a new SAS Decision Manager Common component called Decision Builder and is integrated with SAS Lineage. Therefore, two passes of the SAS Deployment Wizard installation and configuration process are required in order to complete the upgrade. During the first pass of the SAS Deployment Wizard, it upgrades your existing deployment. After the upgrade has completed successfully, the configuration stage begins. After the configuration stage has completed, you must run the SAS Deployment Wizard again to install the new product components and to complete the configuration.
The SAS Decision Manager upgrade process supports upgrading to a database from the same vendor as the database that you are currently using. Upgrading from a database based on Oracle to a database based on PostgreSQL, or vice versa, is not supported.
If you are using Oracle for your SAS Decision Manager database, the upgrade process assumes that the upgraded environment uses the same instance of Oracle. The upgrade process does not support moving to a different Oracle database server.
Last updated: February 22, 2017