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Changes to be aware of from V6.09 to V8.0 (and above) on MVS

SN-499: Transporting catalogs from Version 6 to Versions 7 or 8

SN-1137: Various BLKSIZE(device-type) values obsolete

SN-1733: The macro statement %KEYDEF is obsolete

SN-1805: PROC DB2EXT does not support SSID= option starting in Version 8

SN-2427: Compatibility: Warning message that generated a RC=0 in Version 6 returns RC=4 in Version 8

SN-2595: Various system options not supported in this version

SN-2596: Memory management and possible "Out of Memory" messages in Version 8

SN-2615: ERROR 7-12: Option is valid only at invocation of the SAS System

SN-2624: Messages which generate different return codes in Version 8

SN-2649: DROP/KEEP in PROC step causes problems

SN-2666: PROBSIG= option no longer supported.

SN-2676: Determining the order of variables within a SAS data set

SN-2913: Changes & Enhancements documentation available for SAS/TOOLKIT

SN-3138: Attempting to write or copy catalogs to a V6 library is not allowed

SN-3529: SEQENGINE= system option no longer supports values in the form SASVnSEQ

SN-3593: ERROR: Invalid option value 0 for SAS option PAGENO=

SN-3799: ! in SAS Log indicates wrapped source line

SN-3887: COMPRESS=ON not supported in Version 8

SN-4321: Unable to execute multiple SELECT statements with Access to Sybase in Version 7 and Version 8 of the SAS System

SN-4559: ERROR: Library 'libref' does not exist

SN-4678: The REFLABEL= AXIS statement option is incorrectly documented as REFLINE=

SN-5687: "What's New in 8.2" document misleading regarding COMPRESS= system and data set option

V6G030: XTENDLIB Statement no longer recommended

Multivolume SASIO Issues:

SN-4916: Preallocating dynamic multi-volume library does not support volume skipping

SN-2674: RLSE and PASS subparameters are not honored in Version 8

SN-5004: New multi-volume SAS library not found on volume when closed via LIBNAME CLEAR

SN-895: SAS recovers from B37 abend extending a multivolume SAS library

SN-2881: Potentially corrupt multivolume SAS data library using GUARANTEED SPACE and specifying secondary space allocation

SN-4229: SAS does not recognize AVGREC Parameter