About This Document :: Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades for SAS(R) 9.2

This document describes how applying a maintenance release or upgrading to a new product release might affect your site.

This document is organized into the following parts:

“General Information about Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades” provides information that is common to applying maintenance releases and upgrading products.

This part contains the following information:
- a brief summary of this document
- a brief announcement about new product releases, product-specific maintenance releases, and future product updates
- an explanation of product release numbers and how you can determine what products you are running at your site
- how you can use the installation files to verify or troubleshoot your installation
“Third Maintenance Release for SAS 9.2” describes how to apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2.

This part contains the following information:
- brief descriptions of the SAS 9.2 release and the three subsequent maintenance releases
- how to prepare your site before you apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2
- how to install the third maintenance release by using the SAS Deployment Wizard and how you can verify that the installation was successful
- any configuration steps that you might need to perform after the installation is complete
- how the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2 affects other SAS products and any product-specific tasks that you are required to complete to ensure that your programs and SAS applications work correctly after you apply the maintenance release
“Product-Specific Maintenance Releases” provides more information about maintenance releases for other SAS products. Not all SAS products have maintenance releases. Review the contents of this part to determine whether the products at your site have additional updates to apply.
“New Product Releases” provides more information about the new product releases that shipped after the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. Review the contents of this part to determine whether the products at your site have a new product release.