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Supported Operating Systems

The supported operating systems derived from this page are for SAS® Viya® as well as SAS® Foundation products and servers, release 9.4 and earlier. For SAS Viya 2020.1 and later, see System Requirements and Support Levels. To find system requirements for products and solutions not included here, click this link.

Display Supported Operating Systems View: Platform SAS Release SAS Release: Select SAS release Viya 3.5 Viya 3.4 Viya 3.3 Viya 3.2 Viya 3.1 9.4 9.3 9.2 9.1.3 9.1.2 9.1 8.2 8.1 8.0 6.09 6.08 6.07 6.06 Platform: Select platform Windows z/OS UNIX Operating System: Select all Linux 64-bit AIX Linux Itanium Oracle Solaris SPARC Oracle Solaris x64 HP Tru64 HP-UX Itanium HP-UX PA-RISC Linux 32-bit    Your selection details will appear below when you click Submit.

SAS® News SAS® 9.4 TS1M8 (9.4 M8) is the current release SAS 9.4 M8 was released on January 31, 2023. If you are new to SAS, complete the contact form. Current SAS 9.4 customers can request SAS 9.4 maintenance by visiting Release Announcement and use the self-service application for maintenance tool.

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Details of Supported Operating Systems were found using the above criteria.

AIX Platform Release Product Release Support Level Comment 6.1 SAS 8.2 Limited 5.3 SAS 8.2 Limited 5.2 SAS 8.2 Limited 5.1 SAS 8.2 Limited 5 SAS 8.2 Limited 4.3.3 SAS 8.2 Limited 6.1 SAS 9.1.3 Limited Mid-tier for SAS 9.1.3 supported only on Apache Tomcat and WebSphere v6.0.2.25 and above. 5.3 SAS 9.1.3 Limited 5.2 SAS 9.1.3 Limited 5.1 SAS 9.1.3 Limited 5 SAS 9.1.3 Limited BI Server Tier not available. BI Mid Tier not available. 7.1 SAS 9.2 Limited Not all SAS Solutions have support for AIX 7.1 with their SAS 9.2 offerings. Please refer to Solution specific System Requirements pages for details. 6.1 SAS 9.2 Limited Platform Suite for SAS 4.1 Upgrade is supported. 5.3 SAS 9.2 Limited 9.2 supported at TL6 and above. 7.1 SAS 9.3 Standard 6.1 SAS 9.3 Standard SAS 9.3 supported on TL4 and above. 7.2 TL5 SAS 9.4 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on AIX 7.2 TL5 or higher 7.1 SAS 9.4 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on AIX 7.1 or higher 5.2 ML04 Not Supported

Important Links & Notes: UNIX

• What's New in SAS
• Migration Information
• If your deployment includes one or more Business Intelligence, Data Integration, or solution products and is metadata-based, you might be able to use the SAS Migration Utility.
• Support Services for Current and Prior Releases of Software
• Support for major and minor OS releases
• Product Advisory Notices from SAS
• Note to Linux users: Be aware that the distributions of Linux listed are the only supported distributions. Refer to Installation Note 43233.
• SAS Support for Alternative Operating Systems