SAS Asset and Liability Management requires SAS Risk Stratum: Enterprise. SAS Asset and Liability Management for Banking customers with versions 5.1.2 or earlier must convert to SAS Risk Stratum in order to run this content release.

For information about SAS Asset and Liability Management for Banking 5.1 and 5.2, see the system requirements for these solutions on the SAS Support website.

The SAS Asset and Liability Management 5.4 content package can be downloaded from the SAS Downloads page after SAS Risk Stratum: Enterprise is deployed. For more information about installation, see the SAS Asset and Liability Management 5.4: Deployment Guide.

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. For example, if the baseline for SAS x is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, SAS x will also support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 under this policy.

The full SAS Support policy that applies to third-party software can be found at https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/third-party-software-reference/baseline-and-higher.html. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs.

SAS Asset and Liability Management includes SAS Detail Data Store for Banking and SAS Risk Management for Banking Infrastructure Server.

SAS Asset and Liability Management requires SAS Risk Stratum Server, which is separately licensed.

Before you start the deployment process, make sure that SAS session encoding is set to UTF-8 as the default. SAS Asset and Liability Management supports only UTF-8 encoding.

For more information about setting the SAS encoding to UTF-8, see SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide.

IMPORTANT   If you have to change the encoding to UTF-8, you must restart all SAS services.