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SAS® Fraud Management 6.2

Overview

This document lists the requirements for SAS Fraud Management 6.2.

SAS Fraud Management 6.2 requires SAS 9.4TS1M8 (SAS 9.4M8).

Host Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.9 or later is supported.

For information about supported operating systems for SAS Foundation, use the menus to see support information for SAS 9.4 on the following web page: SAS supported operating systems.

SAS Fraud Management components for UNIX server-tier and middle-tier machines must be installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 or later for x64.

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. For example, if the baseline for SAS x is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, SAS x will also support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 under this policy.

The full SAS Support policy that applies to third-party software can be found at https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/baseline-and-higher.html. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs.

Server-Tier Requirements

 

SAS Fraud Management Decision Engine Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4M8
  • SAS Fraud Management Decision Engine 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management Transaction Extensions 6.2

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Fraud Management Decision Engine Server includes one of the following SAS/ACESSS engines of choice:

  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PostgreSQL

Note: The SAS/ACCESS engine of choice must be the same on all the UNIX servers in the deployment.

Note: The SAS Fraud Management Decision Engine Server requires a SAS Metadata Server during installation and a prior installation of SAS Fraud Management Batch Server. It can be installed without the SAS Fraud Management Rules Server.

Note: SAS Metadata Server can be installed on the same machine as the SAS Fraud Management Decision Engine server, or on a separate machine.

SAS Fraud Management Batch Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4M8
  • SAS Fraud Management Multi Entity History DB Maintenance Macros 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management Batch Servers Configuration 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management Common Macros 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management Data Services 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management Reporting History ETL Server Macros 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management System of Record DB Maintenance Macros 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management Transaction Extensions 6.2
  • SAS/CONNECT 9.4

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Fraud Management Batch Server includes one of the following SAS/ACESSS engines of choice:

  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PostgreSQL

Note: The SAS/ACCESS engine of choice must be the same on all the UNIX servers in the deployment.

SAS Fraud Management Rules Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4M8
  • SAS Fraud Management Rules Server 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Management Transaction Extensions 6.2
  • SAS Integration Technologies 9.47
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files 9.4
  • SAS/CONNECT 9.4M8

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Fraud Management Rules Server includes one of the following SAS/ACCESS engines of choice:

  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to PostgreSQL

Note: The SAS/ACCESS engine of choice must be the same on all the UNIX servers in the deployment.

SAS Fraud Management Analytic Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4M8
  • SAS Fraud Management Analytic Server 6.2
  • SAS Fraud Transactional Analysis Engine 6.2

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Metadata Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS Metadata Server Configuration 9.4

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

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.


Middle-Tier Requirements

SAS Fraud Management Mid-Tier on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • SAS Fraud Management Mid-Tier 6.2
  • SAS Studio Mid-Tier 3.82
  • SAS Web Application Server 9.48
  • SAS Web Infrastructure Platform 9.4
  • SAS Web Server 9.47

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 1756 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Web Application Servers

SAS Fraud Management 6.2 supports IBM MQ 9.3.

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.

Databases

The following data sources are supported by SAS Fraud Management:

  • PostgreSQL 15
  • IBM Db2 11
  • Oracle 19c

Mid-Tier Storage Requirements

  • Multi Entity History (MEH) – dependent on the number of distinct keys defined within the SAS Fraud Management 6.2 solution
  • System of Record (SOR) – dependent on the number of days retained, determined per customer installation
  • Transaction Data Repository (TDR) – dependent on the number of months retained, determined per customer installation
  • MQ queues – dependent on queue depth, determined per customer installation

Mid-Tier Server Hardware Requirements

  • ETL/BI/Metadata: POWER6 server* and Intel
  • Transaction Data Repository (TDR): POWER6 server* and Intel
  • SAS Application Server: POWER6/POWER7 server* and Intel
  • System of Record (SOR): POWER6 server* and Intel
  • Multi Entity History (MEH): POWER6 server* and Intel

* The number and speed of processors, the size of internal storage, and the number of physical servers per installation for redundancy are determined per installation and according to customer requirements.


Client-Tier Requirements

SAS BI Clients

Select a platform:

Note: SAS Management Console and SAS BI Lineage Plug-in for SAS Management Console can also run on IBM AIX, Linux for x64, Solaris for SPARC, and Solaris  for x64, in addition to Windows (32-bit and 64-bit).

Web Browsers

Recent versions of the following web browsers are supported:

  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome

Hardware Requirements

All-UNIX Solution

The All-UNIX/Linux option is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This version is available in SAS Fraud Management 3.2 and later versions. A customer who selects this option would expect to allocate several (physical) p-series servers or reduce this footprint by implementing a larger multi-core server or servers with logical partitions and shared memory. 

The requirements regarding disk space, CPUs, and real and virtual storage depend on the size of the workload. SAS works with prospective customers to define the expected customer workload and corresponding hardware resources needed. This process is a standard part of any SAS Fraud Management deployment project.


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.

For the latest Third-Party Support matrix that is specific to SAS Fraud Management, visit the SAS Fraud Management Third-Party Support page at https://support.sas.com/kb/46/addl/fusion_46539_3_3rdpartyv28.pdf.

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