All releases of SAS at Level A support will run successfully on all current IBM mainframe hardware and operating system releases. When new z/OS systems or operating system software goes GA (General Availability) SAS will support it, although it may not support all new features. Any necessary fixes for specific hardware or software are noted below. Most older releases of SAS also run successfully on current IBM machines and operating system releases, but they are not tested, and the support level guidelines apply. SAS recommends upgrading to the latest release and applying the most current maintenance and hot fixes for that release.
SAS support levels are documented at
http://support.sas.com/techsup/support.html#non_current.
See http://support.sas.com/resources/sysreq/hosts/zos/
for a summarized IBM and SAS Support Matrix.
The Install Center contains system requirements for recent releases at http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/index.html.
Technical Support hot fix and service pack (applicable for SAS 9.1.3 only) information is located at
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/hotfix.html.
Issues by z/OS Release
Please note: If you are upgrading through multiple z/OS releases, you should look at issues for each intervening release.
z/OS 1.7 and 1.8
For issues related to SAS Spawners (IOM and CONNECT) under z/OS 1.7, see SAS Note 16738.
Under z/OS 1.7 and 1.8, a sequential library on DASD that is backed up via HBACKDS might lose updates or be truncated. For more information, see SAS Note 19315 .
See SAS Note 15525.
SAS customers with SAS files in zFS file systems, please request the PTF associated with IBM APAR OA25725.
z/OS 1.9
Important: Beginning with z/OS 1.9, it became optional to move the PCCA control block above the 16M line in memory. SAS 8.2 and SAS 6.09E fail (abend) with an 0C4 in this scenario. Many customers have reported these 0C4 failures only after upgrading to z/OS 1.12. It appears that this control block is above the line by default in z/OS 1.12. See the following SAS notes for information about correcting this problem:
See SAS Note 15525.
SAS customers with SAS files in zFS file systems, please request the PTF associated with IBM APAR OA25725.
z/OS 1.10
See SAS Note 35332 .
z/OS 1.11
See SAS Note 38132 .
z/OS 1.12
See SAS Note 41261.
See SAS Note 42473.
SAS Version 6 and 8 users, see also the PCCA issue under z/OS 1.9.
If you have modified SAS Connect Spawner or Object Spawner scripts to enable the use of authorized commands, please see SAS Note 44499.
IMPORTANT: z/OS 1.12 sites that also use Computer Associates' TSO/MON® must also see SAS Note 44042.
z/OS 1.13
See SAS Note 45793.
Issues with Hardware or Features
For a z10 machine, apply the appropriate IBM PTFs for the IBM APARs documented in SAS Notes 31484 and 33749.
See SAS Note 35858 for details about Extended Address Volume (EAV) support in SAS.
See SAS Notes 17038 and
34071 for details about support for DSNTYPE=LARGE data sets in SAS.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
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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.
