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Supported Operating Systems

The supported operating systems derived from this page are for SAS® Viya® as well as SAS® Foundation products and servers, release 9.4 and earlier. For SAS Viya 2020.1 and later, see System Requirements and Support Levels. To find system requirements for products and solutions not included here, click this link.

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SAS® 9.4 TS1M8 (9.4 M8) is the current release

  • SAS 9.4 M8 was released on January 31, 2023.
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  • Current SAS 9.4 customers can request SAS 9.4 maintenance by visiting Release Announcement and use the self-service application for maintenance tool.
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Details of Supported Operating Systems were found using the above criteria.

  • Linux Itanium, HP Tru64, HP-UX PA-RISC and Linux 32-bit with SAS 9.4 - This is not a supported configuration.
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  • AIX
      • Platform Release Support Level Comment
      7.1 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on AIX 7.1 or higher
      7.2 TL5 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on AIX 7.2 TL5 or higher
  • HP-UX Itanium
      • Platform Release Support Level Comment
      11.31 Standard Support available beginning with HP Itanium 11.31 Update 9. SAS 9.4M8 is not supported
  • Linux 64-bit
      • Platform Release Support Level Comment
      Oracle Linux 6.1 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on Oracle Linux 6.1 or higher
      Oracle Linux 7.1 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on Oracle Linux 7.1 or higher
      Oracle Linux 7.9 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on Oracle Linux 7.9 or higher
      Oracle Linux 8 Standard Oracle Linux 8 is supported beginning with SAS 9.4M6.
      Oracle Linux 8.4 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on Oracle Linux 8.4 or higher
      Oracle Linux 9.1 Standard Oracle Linux 9.1 is supported beginning with SAS 9.4M7
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on RHEL 6.1 or higher
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on RHEL 7.1 or higher
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on RHEL 7.9 or higher
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Standard RHEL 8 is supported beginning with SAS 9.4M6.
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on RHEL 8.4 or higher
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Standard RHEL 9.1 is supported beginning with SAS 9.4M7
      SuSE SLES 11 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on SLES 11.
      Starting with SAS 9.4M7, the SAS Web Server component cannot be deployed on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. Install SAS Web Server on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 or another supported operating system. You can also choose not to install SAS Web Server.
      SuSE SLES 12 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on SLES 12
      SuSE SLES 12.5 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on SLES 12.5 or higher
      SuSE SLES 15 Standard SLES 15 is supported beginning with SAS 9.4M8.
  • Oracle Solaris SPARC
      • Platform Release Support Level Comment
      Oracle Solaris 10 Standard Support available beginning with Oracle Solaris 10 Update 9 . SAS 9.4 M8 not supported
      Oracle Solaris 11 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on Oracle Solaris 11.x or higher
      Oracle Solaris 11.4 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on Oracle Solaris 11.4 or higher
  • Oracle Solaris x64
      • Platform Release Support Level Comment
      Oracle Solaris 10 Standard SAS 9.4 M8 not supported
      Oracle Solaris 11 Standard SAS 9.4M0 - SAS 9.4M7 is supported on Oracle Solaris 11
      Oracle Solaris 11.4 Standard SAS 9.4M8 is supported on Oracle Solaris 11.4 or higher

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