39379 - Documentation and frequently asked questions for the SAS® Software Depot

Installation Note 39379: Documentation and frequently asked questions for the SAS® Software Depot

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^® 9.2 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide

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

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

Note: The ability to subset orders within a depot when it is being moved or copied replaces the functionality that was available in the SAS Administrator Wizard in previous releases of SAS. If you are used to creating either a Client Users Depot or a Personal Users Depot in earlier versions of SAS, use the information above to select the specific products you wish to copy into a separate depot. Such a newly created depot can serve the same function as those depots did in previous releases.

For additional information see 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^® Deployment Wizard User’s Guide (for SAS 9.2)

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

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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 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

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

Documentation Specifically for UNIX Environments

SAS Note 38258 "Best practices for working with SAS^® Software depots in UNIX environments"

SAS Note 39212 "Using the SAS^® 9.2 Depot Subsetting Utility to create subsetted depots for SAS Foundation and SAS Clients in the UNIX environment"

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

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	z/OS	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Windows Vista	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Linux	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Linux for x64	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		OpenVMS on HP Integrity	9.21		9.2 TS2M0
		Solaris for x64	9.21		9.2 TS2M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

Type:	Installation Note
Priority:	high
Topic:	System Administration ==> Installation

Date Modified:	2011-07-18 14:06:16
Date Created:	2010-04-19 11:17:20

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