About This Book

Audience

This document is for existing SAS customers who are upgrading from SAS 9.1.3 or SAS 9.2 to SAS 9.3. It is also for customers who are applying a maintenance release to SAS 9.3. The initial release of SAS 9.3 TS1M0, Rev. 930_11w29 was in July 2011. The purpose of this document is to notify customers about changes that they might see in SAS 9.3 and how those changes might affect their site. Specific information about migrating your SAS content is available in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide.

This document is organized into the following parts:

“Introduction to Updating SAS Software at Your Site” provides information that is common to any software upgrade.

This part contains the following information:
- a policy statement for maintenance releases at SAS
- a description of the general process for software updates
- definitions of some of the terminology that is used in this document
- an explanation of product releases numbers
“Planning for a Software Update” helps you assess whether your site is ready for a software upgrade.

Here is some of the information that you want to review as you plan to update the software at your site:
- what products you currently have installed at your site
- how future software updates might impact your site
- what functionality has been deprecated or will be deprecated in the future
- new requirements for operating systems and third-party software
“Preparing Your Site for a Software Update” explains how to prepare your site for a software upgrade.

Here is some of the information that you want to review before upgrading software at your site:
- how a software upgrade will affect your site
- how to back up your current deployment and whether any customizations will be lost during the upgrade
- how to undeploy any SAS Web applications and stop the Web Application Servers
“Installing and Configuring Software Updates” provides the following information:
- an explanation of how to use the Software Order E-mail (SOE) and the SAS Order Information (SOI) to determine what products are in your order
- an explanation of how to use the Instructions.html files, Deployment Summary, and audit files to complete the software upgrade or troubleshoot any problems
- instructions on how to install a software upgrade
- additional configuration steps that might be required for your Web Application Server
“Product Details and Requirements” can include the following types of information for each product that runs on SAS 9.3:
- steps that you need to perform before you upgrade to a new release
- a brief overview of some of the new features and enhancements in the new release
- any software updates that might be different from what you experienced in a previous release