Understanding the Crossed Versions in a Job Warning

The jobs that you create in SAS Data Integration Studio can sometimes be created in one version of SAS Data Integration Studio and run in another version. This cross-version scenario can occur after you have upgraded SAS Data Integration Studio or when you work in a mixed environment that contains more than one version.

If all of your users are working in the upgraded version, you can safely ignore the warning. If some of your users need to continue working in the earlier version, you must decide whether to run the job or not.

For example, you might have some users working in the same job in versions 4.5 and 4.6. If the 4.6 user adds a new 4.6 transformation to a job that was created in 4.5 and saves it, the job depends on a transformation that was not available in version 4.5 and is saved as a version 4.6 job. Then the 4.5 user is unable to run the job in version 4.5.

Note that this warning can be disabled by clearing the Display a warning on older job version check box on the Job Editor tab of the Options window. This window is available from the ToolsOptions menu. You can disable an error message that is displayed when you open a job that was created in a newer version than the application that you are using by clearing the Display an error on newer job version check box. This check box is located on the same tab in the Options window.