Accessing your data
is a primary concern when migrating to a new version of SAS. If the
server (and clients) have been upgraded to SAS 9.3, and you want the
SAS data and SAS applications to run at the same level as the server
and clients, you can migrate the data to the version that the server
runs. For complete details about data migration, see
http://support.sas.com/rnd/migration.
If you do not migrate
your SAS data and applications to the new version of SAS, you will
be accessing SAS files and using SAS applications in a cross-version
environment. Therefore, it is important to be aware of any restrictions
when operating in a cross-version environment.
Note: SAS 9.3 has many of the same
features as Version 8, but a SAS 9.3 client cannot access a SAS 6
server, and a SAS 6 client cannot access a SAS 9.3 server. Because
SAS 8 can communicate with both SAS 6 and SAS 9.3, SAS 8 serves as
the intermediate release.
Access to data depends
on the following:
-
the SAS data object being accessed
(library, file, view, or catalog)
-
the version and release of SAS
being used (SAS 6 through SAS 9.3) to create the data that is being
accessed or to develop the client application
-
the version and release of SAS
being used by the client session or by the server session