What’s New in SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Upgrades

Overview

The SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates is cumulative and is updated whenever there is an update of a SAS product. The following topics will help you determine what changes were made after the initial release of SAS 9.3, which shipped in July 2011.

May 2014 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_14w19)

The fourth maintenance release for SAS Merchandise Intelligence is now available. SAS Merchandise Intelligence includes these products:
  • SAS Size Optimization, which includes SAS Size Profiling and SAS Pack Optimization
  • SAS Revenue Optimization, which includes SAS Markdown Optimization, SAS Regular Price Optimization, and SAS Promotion Optimization
  • SAS Retail Forecasting
For more information, see SAS Merchandise Intelligence.

November 2013 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_13w45)

These products had a maintenance release:
  • The fifth maintenance release for SAS Enterprise GRC is now available. For more information, see SAS Enterprise GRC.
  • The third maintenance release for SAS Merchandise Intelligence is now available. SAS Merchandise Intelligence includes these products:
    • SAS Size Optimization, which includes SAS Size Profiling and SAS Pack Optimization
    • SAS Revenue Optimization, which includes SAS Markdown Optimization, SAS Regular Price Optimization, and SAS Promotion Optimization
    • SAS Retail Forecasting
    For more information, see SAS Merchandise Intelligence.

April 2013 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_13w18)

SAS Decision Services 5.6 is now available. For more information, see SAS Decision Services.
The second maintenance release for SAS Merchandise Intelligence is now available. SAS Merchandise Intelligence includes these products:
  • SAS Size Optimization, which includes SAS Size Profiling and SAS Pack Optimization
  • SAS Revenue Optimization, which includes SAS Markdown Optimization, SAS Regular Price Optimization, and SAS Promotion Optimization
  • SAS Retail Forecasting
For more information, see SAS Merchandise Intelligence.

April 2013 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_13w14)

SAS Risk Management for Insurance 2.12 is now available. For more information, see SAS Risk Management for Insurance.
The following products shipped a maintenance release:
  • The fourth maintenance release of SAS Enterprise GRC 5.1 is now available. For more information, see SAS Enterprise GRC.
  • The second maintenance release of SAS Social Network Analysis 3.1 is now available. For more information, see SAS Social Network Analysis.
Here are the updates to this document:
  • The instructions for undeploying the WebSphere application server have been updated to include a step for deleting contents from several /temp directories. For more information, see IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.
  • Customizations to the logon, logoff, and time-out pages for the SAS Logon Manager have been added to the list of customizations that you should back up before updating your software. For more information, see Customizations to EAR Files.

January 2013 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_13w05)

The following products shipped a new release:
A new SAS DataFlux chapter has been added to reflect the integration of this product into the SAS suite of data management and data integration solutions. For more information, see SAS DataFlux.

December 2012 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_12w50)

The following products shipped a new release:
The first maintenance release for SAS Merchandise Intelligence is now available. SAS Merchandise Intelligence includes these products:
  • SAS Size Optimization, which includes SAS Size Profiling and SAS Pack Optimization
  • SAS Revenue Optimization, which includes SAS Markdown Optimization, SAS Regular Price Optimization, and SAS Promotion Optimization
  • SAS Retail Forecasting
For more information, see SAS Merchandise Intelligence.

August 2012 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_12w35)

The documentation for these products was updated in the second maintenance release for SAS 9.3:
  • In Base SAS 9.3_M2, new procedures have been added. There are also changes for z/OS operating environments. For more information, see Base SAS.
  • In SAS Integration Technologies 9.3_M2, a new JREOPTIONS parameter is available in the configuration file for the object spawner. For more information, see SAS Integration Technologies.
  • Starting with the second maintenance release for SAS Information Map Studio 4.31, the first day of the week is based on the locale of the information map. For more information, see SAS Information Map Studio.
  • In SAS/GRAPH 9.3_M2, there are three predefined librefs for libraries that contain map data sets: MAPS, MAPSSAS, and MAPSGFK. For more information, see SAS/GRAPH.
  • In SAS Management Console 9.3_M2, there are several additions to resource templates. For more information, see SAS Management Console.
  • Hot fixes were included in SAS OLAP Server 9.3_M2 and SAS OLAP Cube Studio 4.3_M2. For more information, see SAS OLAP Server.
The following products shipped a new release:
The following products shipped a maintenance release:
  • The second maintenance release for SAS BI Dashboard 4.31 is now available. For more information, see SAS BI Dashboard.
  • The second maintenance release for the SAS BI Portlets 4.31 is now available. For more information, see SAS BI Portlets.
  • The second maintenance release for the SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.31 is now available. For more information, see SAS Information Delivery Portal.

June 2012 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_12w32)

A chapter was added for SAS IT Resource Management because of the new 3.3 release. For more information, see SAS IT Resource Management.

April 2012 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_12w16)

New chapters were added for these SAS products.
  • The “SAS Financial Crimes Monitor” chapter was added to announce the first maintenance release of SAS Financial Crimes Monitor 2.3. For more information, see SAS Financial Crimes Monitor .
  • The “SAS Social Network Analysis” chapter was added to announce the first maintenance release of SAS Social Network Analysis 2.3. For more information, see SAS Social Network Analysis.
The documentation for these SAS products was updated:
  • Information about the first maintenance release for SAS Enterprise GRC 5.1 was added. For more information, see SAS Enterprise GRC.
  • Information about the first maintenance release for SAS Model Manager 3.1 was added. For more information, see SAS Model Manager.

March 2012 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_12w10)

Starting with the March 2012 release for SAS 9.3, the SAS Deployment Wizard and the SAS Deployment Manager can be run on operating systems that do not have windowing systems. For more information, see the SAS Deployment Wizard and SAS Deployment Manager User's Guide available at http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikdeploywizug/64204/PDF/default/user.pdf.
The documentation for these SAS products was updated:
  • The SAS Data Integration Studio chapter was updated for the new 4.4 release. For more information, see SAS Data Integration Studio.
  • A chapter was added for SAS Enterprise GRC because of the new 5.1 release. For more information, see SAS Enterprise GRC.
The documentation for undeploying SAS web applications contains these updates:

February 2012 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_12w06)

The documentation for these SAS products was updated for a new product release:

December 2011 (SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_11w50)

These topics were added for the first maintenance release of SAS 9.3:
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