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- Migration for Metadata-Based Deployments (February 2009)
The SAS Migration Utility analyzes and prepares your SAS 9.1.3 deployment for migration. See SAS Intelligence Platform: 9.1.3 to 9.2 Migration Guide for a complete guide to planning and execution.
- The SAS 9.2 Value Proposition
- Coexistence
Read about running multiple versions of SAS on one computer. - 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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SAS®9 Compatibility
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SAS®9 File Features Not Supported in Previous Releases
This topic is important only if you need compatibility between different versions of SAS, such as the following situations:
- You move existing files to the target installation and don't migrate them to SAS®9 format.
- You process a SAS®9 file under a previous version of SAS (for example, you exchange data with a SAS user who has not upgraded).
SAS 9.2 File Features Not Supported for SAS 9.1.3
- CHECK integrity constraints created in SAS 9.2
- sas003 encoding method in SAS 9.2
- linguistic collation with the SORT procedure in SAS 9.2
SAS®9 File Features Not Supported for SAS 8
- long names for formats and informats
- greater than 32,767 variables
- suppressed transcoding of a specified variable
- CHECK integrity constraints created in SAS 9.2
- sas003 encoding method in SAS 9.2
- linguistic collation with the SORT procedure in SAS 9.2
SAS®9 File Features Not Supported for SAS 6
- long names for variables
- encoding attribute
- long names for formats and informats
- greater than 32,767 variables
- suppressed transcoding of a specified variable
- CHECK integrity constraints created in SAS 9.2
- sas003 encoding method in SAS 9.2
- linguistic collation with the SORT procedure in SAS 9.2
Additional Considerations
- See the SAS software features that are not compatible across releases.
- See What's New for new software features that are not functional in previous releases. For example, SAS continually releases new formats and informats, which are not supported in previous releases. Another example is catalog entries, whose behavior can change in a new release. These are two examples of new features that, if applied in the current release, can make a data set unreadable in a previous release.
- In 64-bit SAS, you can create a data set with greater than 231-1 (about 2 billion) observations. A data set with more than 2 billion observations is unusable by the BASE engine in 32-bit SAS.
- For supported processing, see Using a SAS®9 File in a Previous Release.
- If you must run different versions of SAS on the same computer, see Peaceful Coexistence: SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.1.3 or Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2.