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- Updates for SAS 9.2 (March 2008)
See the compatibility calculator to determine whether you need to migrate your libraries to SAS 9.2. Use the PROC MIGRATE calculator to find the right example code for your migration.
- Get a Smarter COMPARE
Validation tools for the MIGRATE procedure now work with CEDA and provide additional details about catalogs, indexes, and integrity constraints.
- Start Planning
See Getting Started for the most efficient pathway through all of the SASŪ9 migration documentation.
- Coexistence
Many SAS®9 products can install side-by-side with SAS 8.2 with very good compatibility. See Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2 for details.
- Sample Validation SOP
See an example SOP: SAS Installation Qualification / Operational Qualification (PDF) (updated 19 May 2008) for the pharmaceutical industry.
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Migration
Lead Your Organization to SAS®9
If you are a SAS specialist or IT professional, the Migration Focus Area is your field guide for successfully migrating your organization to SAS®9. Here you can find essential guidance for
- converting SAS files to the new release.
- preserving customizations made in users' applications.
- ensuring validation with current applications and business processes.
- minimizing disruptions to routine operations.
Along with technical instructions and cross-release compatibility information, you will find tips, best practices, case studies, references to SAS documentation, and more, which will help you to migrate with minimal cost.
What We Mean by Migrate
The computer industry provides many definitions for the term migrate. Here is our usage: When you migrate a SAS site, you upgrade the software and implement it among the people who use it. The existing installation is the source, and the new, upgraded installation is the target. You might also upgrade the computer hardware as part of the migration.
Migrating a file is a more specific usage. When you migrate a data set, you move or copy the data set from source to target. But more important, in addition to moving it, you change the file format so that you can fully exploit the capabilities of SAS®9.
Many customers do not need to migrate files to SAS®9 to get the processing they need. Compatibility describes the ability of a SAS session to process a file that was created under a different version of SAS, that is, a file which is simply moved, not migrated, to the target. See the glossary for more definitions.
What You Get from Migrating to SAS®9
SAS®9 is truly the most significant software release in the 29-year history of SAS. A successful migration enables you to immediately leverage the enhanced power of SAS®9 and to leap forward in achieving mission-critical goals.
- Take advantage of leading-edge technologies such as the SAS Scalable Architecture for faster performance and better utilization of hardware resources; support for the latest open standards including XML, J2EE, and MDX; enhanced integration with Microsoft Office; new Web-based user interfaces; and hundreds of new data manipulation and analytic functions.
- Reduce your software maintenance burden. All maintenance fixes associated with Version 6 and Version 8 have been incorporated in SAS®9, and all reported bugs have been fixed.
- Influence SAS software development. SAS®9 customer feedback is funneled directly to R&D.
- Utilize the SAS®9 tools that can enable IT to centrally manage and administer the SAS environment -- reducing your internal support costs and improving your delivery of information.
See the following pages for more details about SAS®9:
- What's New
- SAS®9 Resources page in the Base Focus Area.
Contributing to migration knowledge
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