Cross-Architecture Access

Character Architectural Groups

Overview of Character Architectural Groups

The following sections contain lists of cross-version architecture groups for SAS 8 and SAS 9.2. These architectural groups are valid only for access between the following:

a SAS 8 client (or server) and a SAS 9.2 server (or client)
a SAS 8 client and a SAS 8 server.

The lists are grouped on the basis of similar character representation. No character translation is required when communicating between any two operating environments in the same group. When two operating environments in different groups communicate, character translation is required and restrictions and limitations are applied.

Note: For backward compatibility, the following lists include architectures and operating environments that were supported in earlier versions of SAS but are not supported in SAS 9 and later. [cautionend]

EBCDIC Format Operating Environments

CMS
z/OS

ASCII-ISO Format Operating Environments

AIX
AIX 64
Compaq Tru64 UNIX (formerly Compaq's DIGITAL UNIX)
HP-UX
HP-UX 64
HP-UX/Itanium
Intel ABI+ hosts
OpenVMS Alpha
OpenVMS Alpha 64
OpenVMS VAX
RedHat Linux/Intel
SGI
Solaris 2
Solaris 64

ASCII-ANSI Format Operating Environments

Windows XP
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows 98
Windows 95
Windows/Itanium

ASCII-OEM Format Operating Environment

OS/2

Note: Because SAS 9.2 uses execution-time session encoding, operating environments cannot be meaningfully grouped according to character representation for SAS 9.2. [cautionend]

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