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.
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.
is not supported in Version 6. Version 7 and 8 data sets must be updated
or output in a SAS 9 session to be stamped with an encoding attribute.
(The encoding attribute was supported prior to SAS 9 in China, Korea, and Japan.)
The encoding attribute enables you to, for example, more easily process
multilingual data in a single SAS session with the UTF8 session encoding.
See the topic about
National Language Support (NLS).
Long names for formats and informats
are not supported in Version 6, 7, or 8.
Greater than 32,767 variables
is not supported prior to SAS 9.1.
Suppressed transcoding of a specified variable
is not supported prior to SAS 9.1.
CHECK integrity constraints created in SAS 9.2
are not compatible with earlier releases of SAS. If you add the constraint to
an existing SAS data set or create a SAS data set that includes the constraint,
the data set cannot be accessed by any release prior to SAS 9.2.