Understanding Product Release Numbers

Understanding Technical Support Numbers

Each release of SAS has a unique Technical Support level (TSLEVEL). The format of a Technical Support level is TSxMy. For example, the Technical Support level for SAS 9.3 is TS1M0. In documentation or on SAS Web sites, you might see SAS 9.3 (TS1M0). After you apply the first maintenance release for SAS 9.3, the Technical Support level is TS1M1.
To determine the Technical Support level for the SAS release that you are running at your site:
  1. Start SAS.
    • On Windows, start SAS by double-clicking the sas.exe file in your SAS installation directory. Examples of a SAS installation directory include C:\Program Files\SASHome\x86\SASFoundation\9.3 and C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3. You can also start SAS from the Start menu. For example, select Startthen selectProgramsthen selectSASthen selectSAS 9.3 (English).
    • On UNIX, start SAS by typing ./sas —nodms at a command prompt. To exit, type endsas;.
    • On z/OS, start SAS by typing sas o(nodms). To exit, type endsas;. You can also invoke SAS in a batch job. Look for the Technical Support level in the SASLOG DD output stream.
  2. In Windows and UNIX environments, review the information at the top of the log when SAS starts.
    Example of Log in SAS 9.3 TS1M0
    In the SAS Display Manager, you can also view this information by selecting Helpthen selectAbout SAS 9.
    Note: If you are working in a z/OS environment, look for the 9.3 (TS1M0) string in the output.

Product-Specific Release Numbers for Other SAS Products

SAS products use product-specific release numbers. To determine what products are running at your site, generate a deployment registry report. For more information, see How to Run the Deployment Registry Report.
The following table shows examples of some product release numbers for products that shipped in SAS 9.3:
Product Name
Release Number
Base SAS
9.3
SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
5.1
SAS Data Integration Studio
4.4
SAS Management Console
9.3
SAS Web Report Studio
4.31

Understanding Maintenance Release Numbers

After you install a maintenance release, the product release number for updated products changes to include maintenance-specific identification, such as M1. This maintenance number is incremented by one for each maintenance release of that product. However, a maintenance release (such as the first maintenance release for SAS 9.3) might not contain updates for all SAS products. Therefore, maintenance numbers can differ across SAS products. To determine the maintenance numbers for products at your site, generate a deployment registry report. For more information, see How to Run the Deployment Registry Report.
Product Name
Release Number
Base SAS
9.3_M1
SAS Enterprise Miner
7.1_M1
SAS Forecast Server
4.1_M1
SAS/GRAPH
9.3_M1
As this table shows, all products currently have a maintenance release number of M1.
Suppose Base SAS shipped a second maintenance release. Then the maintenance release number for Base SAS would be M2. Then, the maintenance release numbers are different because there have been two maintenance releases for Base SAS.
If the other products in the table are not updated in the second maintenance release for SAS 9.3, their maintenance release number stays M1.
For more information about product numbers, see http://support.sas.com/software/92/productnumbers.html.
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