SAS^® Foundation 9.1.3 (32-bit) is available for Windows x64 systems with the exception of Windows Server 2008. (See the below link to SAS Installation Note 36616 for more information.)

SAS Foundation 9.2 32-bit and SAS Foundation 9.2 x64 are available for Windows x64 systems.

SAS^® runs on the following processors under Windows x64:

• Intel Pentium 4 EM64T
• Intel Xeon EM64T
• AMD Opteron
• AMD Athlon 64
• AMD Turion 64

SAS runs on multi-processor and multi-core machines.

SAS^® 9.1.3 and Windows x64 installation issues

In order to install SAS Foundation 9.1.3 32-bit release on Windows x64, you are required to have the following:

• CDs shipped after 1 Sept 2005 (spine of SAS Installation Kit indicates "Rev: 15") is required.
• CD set 45 or later
  • Both date and CD set can be found at the bottom of the SAS Setup CD as "CD Set 45 - 1Sept2005".
  • SAS Installation Data File (SID) has CDSetVersion=45.

If you have received a new SAS Foundation 9.1.3 SID file after 03 August 2007, it will work on x64. If you received a SID file before that date, then you need a new one. For a new one, contact Contracts for a new SID file at Re-send SAS Installation Data for SAS®9 or Higher.

Under Windows x64, SAS 9.1.3 supports the installation of bundles, such as Education Analytic Suite (EAS). Note, however, that some products in those bundles are NOT supported under Windows x64 and should not be installed. See below.

You can install only these SAS products on Windows x64:

• Base SAS^® Software
• SAS^® Data Quality Server Software
• SAS^® High-Performance Forecasting
• SAS^® Integration Technologies
• * SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to DB2
• * SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to ODBC
• * SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to OLE/DB
• * SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to Oracle
• * SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to PC File Format
• SAS/AF^® Software
• SAS/ASSIST^® Software
• SAS/CONNECT^® Software
• SAS/EIS^® Software
• SAS/ETS^® Software
• SAS/FSP^® Software
• SAS/GENETICS^® Software
• SAS/GIS^® Software
• SAS/GRAPH^® Software
• SAS/IML^® Software
• SAS/INSIGHT^® Software
• SAS/IntrNet^® Software
• SAS/LAB^® Software
• SAS/MDDB^® Server Software
• SAS/OR^® Software
• SAS/QC^® Software
• SAS/SHARE^® Software
• SAS/SPECTRAVIEW^® Software
• SAS/STAT^® Software
• SAS/TOOLKIT^® Software

  * For SAS 9.1.3, these SAS/ACCESS products are supported under Windows x64 as a 32-bit application as long as the database client 32-bit libraries are installed and configured where Windows x64 is installed. For a fuller description of the status of SAS/ACCESS to PC File Formats on x64 and 64-bit Itanium, please see SAS Note 17075 "SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC File Formats support on Windows 64-bit Platforms."and 19381 "Status of SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files on 64-bit Windows."

SAS^® Enterprise Miner™ Client solution is NOT supported under Windows x64 under SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2 TS1M0.

SAS Enterprise Server Solution IS supported under Windows x64. For more information, see SAS Note 17570 "Supported platforms for SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2."

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform (including Data Sources, SAS Servers, Middle Tier and Client Tier) is not supported under Windows x64. SAS 9.2 TS2M0 Intelligence Platform (32-bit and x64) is supported.

SAS 9.2 TS2M0 supports Windows x64.

SAS^® 9.2 and Windows x64 installation issues

In order to install SAS Foundation 9.2 32-bit TS1M0 or SAS Foundation 9.2 32-bit TS2M0 on Windows x64, you are required to have appropriate SAS installation files and to have the appropriate 32-bit and x64 OSNAME settings in a SAS Installation Data file provided by SAS:

• OSNAME=W32_WKS for 32-bit workstations
• OSNAME=W32_SV for 32-bit servers
• OSNAME=X64_WKS for x64 workstations
• OSNAME=WX64_SV for x64 servers

Additional information

For a more complete list of Windows operating systems, see Supported Operating Environments.

For Windows Server 2008 support see SAS Installation Note 36616.

Operating System and Release Information