Getting Started under Windows

SAS: Exploiting the Power of Windows

The Windows enterprise environment provides a flexible, easy-to-use working environment by which you can integrate SAS into your enterprise solutions. The following Windows environments are supported in SAS 9.2:

Supported Windows Editions for SAS 9.2
Chip Architecture	Operating System	Edition
x86, x86-64 (x64)	Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows Vista Windows Vista Windows 7	Professional Standard Edition Business Enterprise Ultimate Professional, Ultimate
x86, x86-64 (x64), EPIC (Itanium)	Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2	Enterprise Edition DataCenter Server Standare, Enterprise, Datacenter Standare, Enterprise, Datacenter

Note: All other versions of Windows are not supported. [cautionend]

An Integral Part of Your Windows Editions

SAS under Windows is designed to let you complete your data- and computation-intensive tasks while integrating with the Windows applications that are already in place on your desktop and within your enterprise. SAS supports information sharing through the most powerful tools and techniques that Windows has to offer, including

OLE
Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
e-mail system
Lotus Notes
pipes and named pipes
the Windows clipboard.

Compatible and Maintainable

Read and Write SAS Data Sets from Previous Releases

SAS can read and write SAS data sets that were created by earlier releases of SAS.

However, in order to bridge the upgrades in the SAS catalog architecture and differences in the operating environment structure, catalogs must be converted from earlier formats (such as Release 8.2 under Windows) to SAS 9.2 format using the transport procedures CPORT and CIMPORT.

Use the Graphical Interface or the Command Line Interface

You can still use the command line as you did in previous releases. However, you can also use the graphical user interface (GUI) to issue commands. Most existing SAS commands and windows are available through the GUI. In some cases, you select operations through dialog boxes and various other GUI controls.

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