Assessing the Effect on Products at Your Site

Updates for the Third Maintenance Release for SAS 9.2

Starting with the new product releases that shipped in August 2010, SAS products require the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. If you have not applied the third maintenance release at your site, then SAS detects any SAS software products in your order that are more recent than what you have deployed on your machine and automatically includes these updates in your upgrade to the new product release.

Step 1: Review the List of Products to Be Updated

Before you upgrade to a new product release, you should review the list of products that will be updated on a machine. From the SAS Deployment Wizard, you can generate a Deployment Summary. For more information, see About the Deployment Summary. The list of product updates could vary for each machine at your site. Therefore, you need to generate a Deployment Summary on every machine that runs SAS 9.2.
Note: If no product updates are required for a machine, then you will not see a Deployment Summary, and your installation of the maintenance release is complete on that machine.
To view SAS products that will be updated on a machine:
  1. Run the SAS Deployment Wizard from the software depot that contains your order. You must use the same user ID that you used to install SAS 9.2.
    Note: If you are running in a Windows environment, you must be an administrator to run the SAS Deployment Wizard, but you do not have to use the same user ID that you used to install SAS 9.2. If you are running in a UNIX environment, you must use the same user ID that you used to install SAS 9.2. For both operating environments, the SDW.log file indicates whether your user ID is different from the one that you used to install SAS 9.2.
    How to Start the SAS Deployment Wizard
    Operating System
    How to Start the SAS Deployment Wizard
    Windows
    Double-click setup.exe in the highest-level directory of your SAS Software Depot.
    UNIX
    Execute setup.sh from the highest-level directory of your SAS Software Depot.
    OpenVMS on HP Integrity
    Type the following command: run setup_vms.exe.
    z/OS
    Run setup.rexx from the highest-level directory of your SAS Software Depot. To use a temporary directory other than /tmp, specify –templocationnew-temp-dir.
  2. In the Review Required Updates step, click Print to print the Deployment Summary for your site. For more information, see Update Summary.
    Review Required Updates step in the SAS Deployment Wizard
    Alternatively, you can copy and paste this content into another document, such as an e-mail or a spreadsheet. In a spreadsheet, you can sort the data alphabetically by product name.
    Note: If no product updates are required, then the Deployment Summary does not appear, and you can exit the SAS Deployment Wizard.
  3. Because you are not installing any software at this time, click Cancel to exit the SAS Deployment Wizard.
    After reviewing the contents of the Deployment Summary and assessing the effect on products at your site, you can install these product updates by restarting the SAS Deployment Wizard.
    Note: When you exit the SAS Deployment Wizard, a copy of the Deployment Summary is not saved to the SAS-installation-directory/InstallMisc/InstallLogs/. A Deployment Summary is not saved to this directory until you install the software update.

Step 2: Review Post-Configuration Requirements for Each Product

After obtaining this list of products, review the “Product-Specific Details and Post-Configuration” chapter in Parts 2, 3, and 4.
Reviewing these product topics now will enable you to do the following tasks:
  • prepare for any feature changes that will affect your site
  • customize the process for upgrading to a new product release at your site
  • plan for additional time to complete any post-configuration steps for each updated product
If no topic is listed for a product, then no post-configurations steps are required for that product.
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