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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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Inventory of SAS Files for PROC MIGRATE
For help in locating and identifying the files, read about the default naming conventions and folder structure, as well as standard file extensions, in the SAS Companion for your operating environment. In the following lists, select a hyperlink to see more detail.
Files Supported by PROC MIGRATE
When you use PROC MIGRATE, you are not simply moving files; you are migrating a SAS data library to SAS 9 so that you can take full advantage of SAS 9 capabilities. For exact specifications, read the PROC MIGRATE documentation. For task-oriented usage, see the migrating data step in the Best Practices Migration with PROC MIGRATE.
Files Not Supported by PROC MIGRATE
| stored compiled DATA step programs | |||||||||||||||||
| stored compiled macros | |||||||||||||||||
| SPD engine (Scalable Performance Data engine) data sets | |||||||||||||||||
external files
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What Not to Migrate
| SAS configuration files | |
| SAS registry files | |
| SASHELP, SASUSER, and WORK libraries |