When to Review This Document

Applying the Third Maintenance Release for SAS 9.2

If you are currently running SAS 9.2 at your site, you are encouraged to apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. Maintenance releases are cumulative, so when you apply the third maintenance release, you also receive any updates that were made in the first and second maintenance release of SAS 9.2.
Review this document before you apply the third maintenance release to determine the following information:
  • how the changes in the maintenance release will affect your site
  • the specific installation and configuration steps that you need to perform at your site
For more information, see Checklists for Applying the Third Maintenance Release for SAS 9.2.
Note: You do not need to review this document in the following situations:
  • You are migrating to SAS 9.2 from a previous SAS release. If the Product field in your Software Order E-mail lists TS2M3, then your SAS 9.2 order includes the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. When you install and configure SAS 9.2, the steps for applying a maintenance release (which are described in this document) do not apply to you.
  • Your site requested a maintenance release before the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2 shipped in May 2010. In this case, your site might be applying the second maintenance release for SAS 9.2. To determine what version of SAS you are running at your site, see Reviewing Your SAS Order Information. For more information about how to apply the second maintenance release for SAS 9.2 at your site, see http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/whatsdiff/62567/HTML/default/viewer.htm.
    The SAS installation representative at your site can request the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. For more information, see http://support.sas.com/software/maintenance.

Applying a Product-Specific Maintenance Release

Individual products can ship their own maintenance releases. For more information, see Product-Specific Maintenance Releases and the Third Maintenance Release for SAS 9.2.
Review this document to determine the following information:
  • whether a product at your site has shipped a maintenance release
  • how the changes in the maintenance release will affect your site
  • how the product-specific maintenance release relates to the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2
  • the product-specific installation and configuration steps that you need to perform at your site
For more information, see Checklists for Applying a Product-Specific Maintenance Release.

Upgrading to a New Product Release

Many new releases of existing SAS products depend on the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. When you run the SAS Deployment Wizard to upgrade to the new product release, SAS automatically detects any files on your system that are older than the files in your order. If you have not applied the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, then this maintenance release is automatically applied. If you have already applied the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, the SAS Deployment Wizard still identifies any files that need to be updated. Therefore, if you are applying the maintenance release as well as upgrading a product, you need to complete all of the installation and configuration steps for the third maintenance release that are described in this document.
Even if you have installed the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, review this document to determine the following information:
For more information, see Checklists for Upgrading to a New Product Release.
Note: After you have installed the products in an order, you cannot install products from an order with an earlier revision number. For example, if your site is currently running the products from an order with a 10w20 revision number, then you cannot install products from an order with a 10w06 revision number. For more information about revision numbers, see Reviewing Your SAS Order Information.
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