Identical Architectural Groups

Overview of Identical Data Representation Groups

The following sections contain lists of cross-version architecture groups for SAS 8 and SAS 9.3. These architectural groups are valid only for access between the following:
  • a SAS 8 client (or server) and a SAS 9.3 server (or client)
  • a SAS 8 client and a SAS 8 server.
The lists are grouped on the basis of identical data representation. No data translation is required in communications between any two operating environments in the same group. When two operating environments that are not in the same group communicate, translation of at least one data type is required, and cross-architecture restrictions and limitations are applied. For details, see Cross-Architecture Restrictions and Limitations.
Note: For backward compatibility, the following lists include architectures and operating environments that were supported in earlier versions of SAS but are not supported in SAS 9 and later.

IBM System/390 Architecture Operating Environments

  • CMS
  • z/OS

UNIX RISC Operating Environments

  • AIX
  • HP-UX
  • Solaris 2
  • SGI

UNIX 64-bit Operating Environments

  • AIX 64
  • HP 64
  • HP-UX/Itanium
  • Solaris 64

Windows 32-bit Operating Environments

  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 95

OpenVMS 64-bit Operating Environments

  • OpenVMS Alpha 64
  • OpenVMS Intel 64

UNIX 64–bit Little Endian Operating Environments

  • OSF Alpha/Compaq Tru 64 UNIX
  • Red Hat Linux/Itanium
  • Red Hat Linux/Intel 64
  • Solaris 64/Intel 64

Intel ABI+ Operating Environments

  • RedHat Linux/Intel
  • IABI+ hosts

Incompatible Operating Environments

Data representation in the following operating environments is incompatible with all other operating environments and each other:
  • OpenVMS Alpha
  • OpenVMS VAX
  • OS/2
  • Windows/Itanium
Note: None of the SAS 9.3 supported operating environments have identical non-character representations.