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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/IntrNet Software
The SAS/IntrNet documentation provides requirements and setup for upgrading to the latest release. See the What's New topics for changes and enhancements in SAS®9.
See also information about compatibility in SAS software, in Base SAS syntax, and in SAS files.
Peaceful Coexistence of Multiple Versions of SAS/IntrNet
You can run multiple versions of SAS/IntrNet on the same computer. Take care with the following issues.
- Application Servers and other components must be configured so that TCP/IP ports do not overlap.
- Each service is tied to a specific release.
Name your services based on the application or applications they support and not the
version of SAS. For example, naming your services "default8" and "default9"
will make it difficult or confusing when you want to move an application to the
next release. All references to the service name will need to be changed or
the service name will be misleading.
- It is generally recommended that the latest available release of
SAS®9 Application Broker and Load Manager be used to
control both SAS 8.2 and SAS®9 servers. This allows the standard URLs to be
used to access and manage both sets of servers. A single broker.cfg file can
contain both SAS 8.2 and SAS®9 server definitions. It is possible to install
both SAS 8.2 and SAS®9 versions of the CGI Tools, but they must be installed to
different locations on the Web server.
- The SAS/GRAPH components installed in the /sasweb/graph are not
compatible across SAS releases. If you use the JAVA driver in
your SAS/IntrNet applications and need to support multiple releases, you must
install the needed releases of SAS/GRAPH components on your Web server. Use the
ServiceSet directive in your broker.cfg to define _GRAFLOC as appropriate for
each service. Verify that your applications use &GRAFLOC (and not
the fixed value /sasweb/graph) as the codebase for JAVA graphics.
- SAS/IntrNet 9 Application Dispatcher samples may not be fully compatible with a SAS 8.2 Application Server. If you want to use the samples, verify that the "default" service is a SAS/IntrNet 9 service; otherwise, you must modify all of the sample HTML files to use a SAS/IntrNet 9 service.
