Effect on Customizations :: Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades for SAS(R) 9.2

Customizations to EAR Files

In the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, SAS rebuilds and redeploys the enterprise archive (EAR) files for all Web applications at your site. (Examples of Web applications include SAS Web Report Studio and the SAS Information Delivery Portal.) Therefore, customizations that you made to the EAR files after initial deployment might be lost.

Here are examples of customizations that you might have specified in your EAR files:

changes to the context root for Web applications, such as the SAS Information Delivery Portal and the SAS BI Dashboard. After your initial installation of SAS, you might have customized the URL that is used to access a SAS Web application at your site. However, after applying the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, this customization is lost, and you must specify this customization again in order for your site-specific URL to work.
customizations for Web authentication. For more information, see the “Restore Customizations for Web Authentication” topic for your Web application server in Additional Configuration Steps for Your Web Application Servers.

Customizations to the Server Configuration Files

For the SAS Metadata Server, SAS Application Servers, SAS/SHARE Servers, and SAS Table Servers, SAS provides configuration files that you can use to specify site-specific modifications to the server's start-up options and the autoexec.sas file. Any configuration file that you can modify contains _usermods. Any modifications to these files are not overwritten when you apply a maintenance release or upgrade to a new product.

For more information, see “Reference: Configuration Files for SAS Servers” in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.

Record Any Additional Customizations at Your Site

After your initial installation of SAS, you might have made additional customizations at your site. Before you apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, note any customizations that you made so you can restore these customizations after you apply the maintenance release. For more information, see “Using Configuration Manager” in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.

For example, you might have configured properties or specified settings for the SAS Web applications by using the Configuration Manager plug-in for SAS Management Console. After you apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, these customizations are lost.