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System Requirements
SAS® Forecast Server 15.4

Overview

This document has been updated to reflect the requirements to deploy this SAS software along with SAS 9.4M9 (TS1M9), which was generally available in 2025.

To keep pace with changes to third-party technologies, SAS has adopted a general policy of supporting one or more baseline major versions and subsequent minor updates for each officially supported operating system. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs. Only the supported baseline major versions are listed in this document.

The full SAS Support policy that applies to third-party software can be found at SAS Third-Party Software Requirements - Baseline and Later Support.

Anti-Virus Software

Third-party anti-virus, anti-spyware, endpoint-protection, and system-monitoring software can interfere with SAS applications and can block files. For more information about the official guidance from SAS Technical Support, see the Anti-Virus section of the SAS Foundation System Requirements document that corresponds to the operating system where you have deployed SAS.


Server-Tier Requirements

SAS Forecast Server

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SAS Enterprise Guide is optional and is not included.

SAS Metadata Server

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SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:

  • a 64-bit host system
  • a dedicated machine to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics
  • multi-core server hardware because SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded
  • four or more cores for production deployments

The disk I/O performance of any server-class system should be sufficient. Memory requirements are highly dependent on the product mix and usage, but 8 GB of RAM are sufficient for most large deployments. For many deployments, 4 GB of RAM are sufficient and should be considered a minimum, unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.

SAS Data Servers

SAS Forecast Server contains the SAS data server SAS Advanced Analytics Common Data Server, which requires additional configuration.

The size of the data server is large.

Note: When you configure your software, the size of each data server must be considered.

Before you install, update, or add products and solutions that result in the deployment of one or more SAS data servers to the same machine, kernel parameter changes for shared memory and semaphores are required. For details about configuration of small, medium, and large data servers, see "Tuning the PostgreSQL Data Server" in the guide titled SAS 9.4 Web Applications: Tuning for Performance and Scalability.


Middle-Tier Requirements

SAS Forecast Server Mid-Tier

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Web Application Servers

When you install your SAS solution software, SAS Deployment Manager installs and configures the required web application servers and web servers.

To install these servers, select one of the supported operating systems for the middle tier.

Note: These servers cannot be installed on the z/OS or 32-bit Windows platforms.


Client-Tier Requirements

SAS Forecast Server Clients

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SAS Forecast Studio offers SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office and SAS Enterprise Guide as separately licensed, integrated products. 

Web Browsers

The list of web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new products are tested and approved. For the latest information, visit the  SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins page.

Additional Information

Offerings with integration to SAS Forecast Server are not included and are separately licensed.

For more information, visit the  SAS Forecast Server Product Page.


Third-Party Software

SAS software may be provided with certain third-party software, including but not limited to open-source software, which is licensed under its applicable third-party software license agreement. For license information about third-party software distributed with SAS software, refer to http://support.sas.com/thirdpartylicenses.

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