The second maintenance release for SAS 9.2 updates foundation, platform, analytics, and tools and clients. These updates address software defects as well as new features and administrative enhancements. This maintenance release expands the list of supported Web application servers, releases of Java, and operating system versions. All customers who have deployed SAS 9.2 are encouraged to install this maintenance release. The maintenance release must be requested by a SAS Installation Representative at your site.

In addition to the maintenance releases for SAS 9.2, individual SAS products can have maintenance releases. For example, in November 2009, SAS Data Surveyor for Clickstream Data, SAS Risk Dimensions, and SAS Web Analytics shipped a maintenance release. Customers who are running these products on SAS 9.2 are encouraged to install these maintenance releases.

The second maintenance release for SAS 9.2 includes several new features:

• a new SAS utility, ViewRegistry, is available. For more information, see SAS Note 35968: "Finding out what product releases and hot fixes are installed on your system."
• Teradata in-database support for SAS procedures.
• enhanced security within the SAS OLAP Server.
• support for Java 6, Firefox 3, Windows Server 2008 (for 32-bit, x64, and Itanium chip architectures), WebLogic 10 & 10gr3, and SuSE SLES 11.

The following list of updated documents will help you understand the changes made to these products in our maintenance releases.

• Maintenance Planning [PDF]
  The Maintenance Planning document describes the changes in a maintenance release that might affect your site. This document includes the following general information:
  • requirements that you need to know before installing a maintenance release
  • instructions about how to install a maintenance release and how you can verify that a maintenance release installed correctly
  • configuration steps that you might need to perform after the installation is complete
  • description of how the maintenance release affects several SAS products and a list of any required post-configuration steps
  The Maintenance Planning document also provides more application-specific details about the tasks that you are required to perform to ensure that your programs and SAS applications work correctly after installing the maintenance release.
   
• What's New in SAS 9.2
  The What's New document combines the What's New files for each product that was updated in SAS 9.2 or that was in a maintenance release after SAS 9.2.
   
• Issues Addressed
  The Issues Addressed Web site for SAS 9.2 maintenance releases is compiled by SAS Technical Support and lists the SAS Notes that were addressed in a maintenance release.
  

• Getting Maintenance
  Maintenance is available via electronic or physical media. You can add any updates to your existing SAS 9.2 software depot or you can create a new depot with a full software order. Use the self-service application for maintenance to identify orders at your site for which maintenance is available. Only a SAS Installation Representatives can request maintenance.
  
  If you have not yet deployed 9.2, then you should contact your SAS account executive. If you need help identifying your account executive but would like to start the request process now, you can call SAS directly at 1-800-727-0025, option 2. All current maintenance will be included with the initial delivery of 9.2.
  
  
• Maintenance Configuration for SAS 9.2
  The Maintenance Configuration chapter in Maintenance Planning for SAS 9.2 describes all of the tasks that you are required to perform after the SAS Deployment Wizard update.
   
• About the Maintenance Audit Files
  The About the Audit Files page describes the content and purpose of the audit files. The audit files help you identify all of the file additions, deletions, and replacements that took place on your computer during the installation of this maintenance release.
   
• Product Advisory Notices from SAS
  The Product Advisory Notices page lists any significant changes to currently available products and solutions.
   

• If you have applied hot fixes to your system, please review SAS Note 37334.
• After you apply a maintenance release to a SAS 9.2 installation, an error might appear in the log for the Web application server if SAS Remote Services is not started correctly. For more information, see Installation Note 37098.