This document has been updated to reflect the requirements to deploy this SAS software along with SAS 9.4M9 (TS1M9), which was generally available in 2025.
To keep pace with changes to third-party technologies, SAS has adopted a general policy of supporting one or more baseline major versions and subsequent minor updates for each officially supported operating system. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs. Only the supported baseline major versions are listed in this document.
The full SAS Support policy governing third-party software can be found at SAS Third-Party Software Requirements - Baseline and Later Support.
Third-party anti-virus, anti-spyware, endpoint-protection, and system-monitoring software can interfere with SAS applications and can block files. For more information about the official guidance from SAS Technical Support, see the Anti-Virus section of the SAS Foundation System Requirements document that corresponds to the operating system where you are deploying SAS.
If TLS is configured for communications between SAS Data Quality Advanced Studio and SAS Data Quality Server, supported operating-system cryptographic libraries must be installed.
On Windows, SAS Data Quality Advanced Studio 2.10 supports OpenSSL 3.x
cryptographic libraries and TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 protocols. The OpenSSL DLLs must
be installed in the
Windows system directory or in a directory that is in the system
PATH.
In UNIX environments, the vendor-provided OpenSSL library associated with your host must be installed:
Some additional configuration is required on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x to use OpenSSL 3.x. Red Hat does not provide or support OpenSSL 3.x on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x. For more information, see Configure Enhanced Security in the DataFlux Data Management Server 2.10: Administrator's Guide.
SAS Data Quality Standard Server includes SAS Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Packs. It also includes a locales for SAS Quality Knowledge Base.
SAS Data Management Server Remote Function Call for SAP is included on request. It includes SAS Federation Server Driver for SAP.
If TLS is configured for communications between SAS Data Quality Standard Studio and SAS Data Quality Standard Server, supported operating-system cryptographic libraries must be installed. For more information, see Security Considerations.
Note: SAS Data Quality enrichment features require reference data, delivered as "data packs." Data Packs must be purchased as part of your SAS contract. Visit the Download Data Packs page for more information.
SAS Data Quality Server includes SAS Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Packs. It also includes locales for SAS Quality Knowledge Base.
SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:
The disk I/O performance of any server-class system should be sufficient. Memory requirements are highly dependent on the product mix and usage, but 8 GB of RAM are sufficient for most large deployments. For many deployments, 4 GB of RAM are sufficient and should be considered a minimum, unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.
Starting with SAS 9.4M7, the SAS Web Server (a specific version of the Apache HTTP Server) that is delivered with the Middle Tier cannot be configured on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. Install the SAS Web Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x> or another supported operating system.
Note: With SAS 9.4M8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 is no longer supported. With SAS 9.4M9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is no longer supported.
As an alternative, you can choose not to install the SAS Web Server.
When you install your SAS solution software, SAS Deployment Manager installs and configures the required web application servers and web servers.
To install these servers, select one of the supported operating systems for the middle tier.
Note: These servers cannot be installed on the z/OS or 32-bit Windows platforms.
SAS Data Quality Standard Studio includes SAS Data Management Contextual Extraction Language Packs. It also includes locales for SAS Quality Knowledge Base.
SAS Data Management Server Remote Function Call for SAP is included on request. It includes SAS Federation Server Driver for SAP.
Note: SAS Data Management enrichment features require reference data, delivered as "data packs." Data Packs must be purchased as part of your SAS contract. Visit the Download Data Packs page for more information.
For a list of web browsers that are supported for the user interfaces, refer to the SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers page.
SAS Data Management Server and SAS Data Management Studio (as well as DataFlux Data Management Server and DataFlux Data Management Studio) support the following databases for repository storage:
A few SAS Data Management components have been deprecated (as of July 2020). Before upgrading your SAS Data Management solution software, be sure to read the section of the SAS 9.4 Guide to Software Updates and Product Changes that is relevant for your product.
SAS software may be provided with certain third-party software, including but not limited to open-source software, which is licensed under its applicable third-party software license agreement. For license information about third-party software distributed with SAS software, refer to http://support.sas.com/thirdpartylicenses.