Documentation about the SAS^® Software Depot

"The Lowdown on the Download: What’s Really in My SAS^® Software Depot and How Did It Get There?"

"Creating SAS Software Depots" in the SAS^® 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide

"Creating SAS Software Depots" in the SAS^® 9.3 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide

"Creating SAS Software Depots" in the SAS^® 9.2 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide

Subsetting SAS Software Depots 9.4- (See page 25 for more details)

Subsetting SAS Software Depots - this is new in SAS 9.3 (see page 17 for more details)

SAS^® Deployment Wizard and SAS^® Deployment Manager 9.4: User’s Guide

SAS^® Deployment Wizard and SAS^® Deployment Manager 9.3: User’s Guide

SAS^® Deployment Wizard User’s Guide (for SAS 9.2)

SAS^® 9.4 Intelligence Platform Installation and Configuration Guide

SAS^® 9.3 Intelligence Platform Installation and Configuration Guide

Both the SAS Download Manager and the SAS Deployment Wizard enable you to put only part of your software order in a SAS Software Depot, which gives you more flexibility in managing your SAS software order. For more information, see “Subsetting SAS Software Depots.”

SAS Note 42914, "A SAS^® 9.2 order cannot be combined with a SAS^® 9.3 order in the same SAS Software Depot"

Documentation Specifically for Microsoft Windows Environments

SAS Note 40426, "The SAS^® 9.3 depot subsetting option replaces the client and server installation model used by earlier SAS^® releases for Windows environments

SAS Note 36685, "Rights needed for using the SAS^® Download Manager to perform Electronic Software Download or write from SAS media to SAS Software Depot"

SAS Note 39110, "Using the SAS^® 9.2 Depot Subsetting Utility to create subsetted depots of SAS^® Foundation products and SAS^® clients in a Windows operating environment"

SAS Note 38467, "The projected size and the created size of a SAS Software Depot for Personal Users might not match exactly when you use the SAS^® Deployment Wizard

Documentation Specifically for UNIX Environments

SAS KB0036223, "Best practices for working with SAS^® Software depots in UNIX environments"
 

Frequently Asked Questions about Subsetting an Order

• Can I subset a subsetted order?
  Yes. You can subset any SAS 9.3 order, regardless of whether or not it has been previously subsetted. In other words, you subset orders, not SAS Software Depots.
   
• If I am subsetting an order at download time, can I add this subsetted order to an existing depot?
  Yes, provided that the target SAS Software Depot contains other SAS 9.3 orders. Remember, SAS Software Depots cannot have orders from different major releases of SAS^® Foundation (for example, SAS 9.2).
   
• Can I download a SAS 9.3 order to an existing depot that contains SAS 9.2 orders?
  No. Orders can only be combined in common depots if they are from the same major release. For more details see SAS Note 42914 "A SAS^® 9.2 order cannot be combined with a SAS^® 9.3 order in the same SAS Software Depot."
   
• Can I have a number of subsetted orders in one depot (add a subsetted order to an existing depot)?
  You can definitely add orders (subsetted or not) from one depot to another depot that also contains subsetted and non-subsetted orders.
   
• How can I know which products are in an existing subsetted order?
  There currently is not an easy way to do this. The best practice when creating your depot is to provide a description. There are plans to provide an easier way to do this in a future release of SAS.
   
• How can I tell if a depot contains subsetted orders?
  Subsetted orders will have revised order numbers that contain a date and time suffix in the depotsummary.html file that is located in the root of the SAS Software Depot (for example, 012345_2011-05-04-17.44.09).
   
• Can I add a product to a subsetted depot?
  Only orders can be added to SAS Software Depots, not products. You can add an order with additional products to an existing SAS Software Depot. Adding this type of order has no effect on the orders that were previously added to the target depot.

Documentation for Subsetting an Order

Documentation for subsetting an order can be found in the following locations:

• SAS^® Deployment Wizard and SAS® Deployment Manager 9.3: User’s Guide
• SAS Download Manager readme file (available when you download the software)
• SAS Deployment Wizard online Help

Operating System and Release Information