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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
- Why Upgrade to SAS 9.2 Software? (PDF)
- Ten Great Reasons Why a Statistician Should Update to SAS 9.2
Coexistence
Read about running multiple versions of SAS on one computer.
- Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2
- Peaceful Coexistence: SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.1.3
Sample Validation SOP
See an example SOP: SAS Installation Qualification / Operational Qualification (PDF) (updated 19 May 2008) for the pharmaceutical industry.
Calculators
- Compatibility Calculator
- PROC MIGRATE Calculator
SAS Notes
- Data Migration and Compatibility
- Migration for Metadata-Based Deployments

Migration

This topic summarizes compatibility and migration issues for SAS/AF software.

The SAS/AF video player class (a legacy class from SAS 6) is not supported in SAS 9.1 and later. You can use the DICTIONARY.CATALOGS view in the SQL procedure to scan for all of the member types in the library:
```
   proc SQL;
     select objtype, count(objtype) from dictionary.catalogs
            where libname = 'YOURLIB' group by objtype;
```
See a note about SAS/AF software compatibility issues under z/OS.
For changes to make in SAS and SCL code, see Updating Base SAS Code.
Additional issues are mentioned in Special Considerations for Customers Upgrading to SAS® 9.2.
If you change operating environments, see "Porting Your Application to Different Operating Environments" in the SAS Guide to Applications Development.
For more information about SAS/AF software, see the SAS online documentation.