Introduction to the Migration Guide for Data Packs

Beginning July 31, 2023, SAS will no longer support or provide updates to the following data packs:

• US Address Verification (USPS)
• North America Postal Level Geocode (includes PhonePlus)
• Canada Address Verification (Canada Post SERP (Software Evaluation and Recognition System) version 2, release 2 (V2R2))
• US Street Level Geocode (except for Loqate geocode data)

Users who want to perform US/Canada address verification and geocode jobs, must migrate to the Loqate data packs listed below, prior to July 31, 2023.

• Loqate US Data

• Loqate Data (includes Canada)

After July 31, 2023, the SAS Data Management Studio jobs that rely on the discontinued data packs fail, and you will receive license errors. The nodes that are affected by these changes include the following:

Data Job Nodes

• Address Update Lookup

• Address Verification (US/Canada)

• US City/State/ZIP Lookup

• US City/State/ZIP Validation

• Geocoding

• Street-level Geocoding

• Canadian Postal Lookup

• Distributed Address Verification

• Distributed Geocoding

Process Job Nodes

• Address Update Audit Report

• Address Update Monthly Reports

• Address Update Process Summary Report

The SAS Data Management Studio and Server 2.9: Migration Guide for Data Packs provides information about how to migrate your US and Canada Address Verification jobs, along with Geocoding jobs to use the Loqate node.