SAS 9.2, SAS 9.3, and SAS 9.4 include several major releases and revisions that contain new software features and functionality. This SAS Note lists these software features and functionality by version, release, and revision.

 

Notable SAS^® 9.4 Features and Functionality

Revision 16w08: This release of SAS 9.4 (TS1M3) was made available February 2016. It include the following:

• SAS Enterprise Guide 7.12 and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 7.12 support Microsoft Office 2016.

Revision 15w29: The fourth major release of SAS 9.4 (TS1M3) was made available July 2015. It includes the following:

• Depot optimization and depot compression.
• Support for suspending and resuming deployments.
• Ended support for subset recipes.

Revision 15w20: This release of SAS 9.4 (TS1M3) was made available May 2015. It includes the following:

• The check for the updates feature in SAS Enterprise Guide 7.11 and SAS Add-In 7.11 for Microsoft Office offers the ability to update to the 7.12 release. See SAS Note 57897: "Enhancements to the check for updates feature in SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® and SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office."

Revision 14w32: The third major release of SAS 9.4 (TS1M2) was made available July 2014. It includes the following:

• Introduced a new cleanwork utility alongside the SAS Disk Cleanup Handler. See SAS Note 8786: "The SAS^® Disk Cleanup Handler Utility replaces a SAS^® 9.1 program called cleanworkpc.sas to clean work directories on Windows operating systems."

Revision 13w51: The second major release of SAS 9.4 (TS1M1) was made available December 2013. It includes the following:

• SAS under Windows 32-bit is now supported in SAS 9.4 (it was not in the revisions 13w26 up to 13w51).

Revision 13w26: The first major release of SAS 9.4 (TS1M0) was made available July 2013. It includes the following:

• Stand-alone installers: SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office, SAS^® Enterprise Guide^®, SAS^® High-Performance Computing Management Console, SAS^® High-Performance Node

Notable SAS^® 9.3 Features and Functionality

13w30: Support for the Windows 7 Home Premium edition was added for the Education Analytical Suite and released in December 2009.

13w14: This revision was made available April 2013. It includes the following functionality:

• Recipes for subsetting orders for the SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® and SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office (both version 5.1)

12w41: This revision was made available October 2012. It includes the following functionality:

• Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support began for SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® 5.1 and SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office 5.1

12w35: The third major release of SAS^® 9.3 (TS1M2) was made available August 2012. It includes the following functionality:

• Hot fixes for SAS^® 9.3 orders

12w35: SAS Download Manager added support for including hot fixes in download.

12w23: This revision was made available June 2012. It includes the following functionality:

• QUIETSTATUS for silent installations introduced.

12w10: This revision was made available March 2012. It includes the following functionality:

• SAS Software Depot Check utility included in depots in the utility/depotcheck folder

Notable SAS^® 9.2 Features and Functionality

10w50: Added support for SAS uninstall wizard.

09w51: Added support for the Windows 7 Home Premium edition for the Education Analytical Suite and released in December 2009.

The following products in the Education Analytical Suite are supported in a Windows 7 operating environment.

Note: These products are not supported individually on Windows 7 Home Premium.

• Base SAS^® software
• SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to Greenplum (included in the October 2009 revision)
• SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to Informix
• SAS/ACCESS^® Interface MySQL
• SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to Microsoft SQL Server
• SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to ODBC
• SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to PC Files
• SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to Sybase
• SAS/AF^® software
• SAS/ASSIST^® software
• SAS/CONNECT^® software
• SAS/EIS^® software
• SAS/ETS^® software
• SAS/FSP^® software
• SAS/GRAPH^® software
• SAS/IML^® software
• SAS/INSIGHT^® software
• SAS/LAB^® software
• SAS/OR^® software
• SAS/QC^® software
• SAS/SECURE™ software
• SAS/SHARE^® software

09w32: Added support for disk spanning.

08w11: Introduced the SAS Disk Cleanup Handler as a replacement to the cleanworkpc.sas program. See SAS Note 8786: "The SAS^® Disk Cleanup Handler Utility replaces a SAS^® 9.1 program called cleanworkpc.sas to clean work directories on Windows operating systems."

 

Additional Information about SAS 9.2, SAS 9.3, and SAS 9.4 Releases and Products in Each Revision

• SAS Note 50493: "Determining your SAS^® 9.4 release and which products are in each revision"
• SAS Note 44477: "Determining your SAS^® 9.3 release and which products are in each revision"
• SAS Note 35627: "Determining your SAS^® 9.2 release and which products are in each revision"

 

Also See

• SAS Note 34960: "SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® support matrix"
• SAS Note 35181: "Managing multiple installations of SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office"
• SAS Note 51162: "Support Matrices for SAS^® clients with SAS^®9"
• SAS Note 44040: "Base SAS^®, SAS^® Enterprise Miner™, SAS^® Text Miner, and Credit Scoring for SAS^® Enterprise Miner™ release numbers"

 

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	N/A	Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Windows 7 Ultimate x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Windows 7 Professional x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Windows 7 Professional 32 bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Windows 7 Home Premium x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Windows 7 Enterprise x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 10	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64	9.4 TS1M3
		SAS Cloud	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.4 TS1M3
		Macintosh	9.4 TS1M3
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.4 TS1M3
		Apple Mobile Operating System	9.4 TS1M3

* 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.

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Type:	Installation Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2016-04-14 13:54:34
Date Created:	2016-03-08 09:16:21