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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.

Display Supported Operating Systems View: Platform SAS Release SAS Release: Select SAS release Viya 3.5 Viya 3.4 Viya 3.3 Viya 3.2 Viya 3.1 9.4 9.3 9.2 9.1.3 9.1.2 9.1 8.2 8.1 8.0 6.09 6.08 6.07 6.06 Platform: Select platform Windows z/OS UNIX Operating System: Select all z/OS    Your selection details will appear below when you click Submit.

SAS® News SAS® 9.4 TS1M8 (9.4 M8) is the current release SAS 9.4 M8 was released on January 31, 2023. If you are new to SAS, complete the standard contact form. Current SAS 9.4 customers can request SAS 9.4 maintenance by visiting Maintenance Release Announcement and use the self-service application for maintenance tool. z/OS 2.2 is available as of September 30, 2015 Please see SAS Note 9193 for issues reported with SAS versions 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4. Please note that older SAS releases have not been extensively tested with z/OS 2.2. SAS 9.4M8 is ONLY supported on z/OS 2.4 and above. z/OS 2.3 is available as of September 29, 2017 Please see SAS Note 9193 for issues reported with SAS versions 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4. Please note that older SAS releases have not been extensively tested with z/OS 2.3. SAS 9.4M8 is ONLY supported on z/OS 2.4 and above. z/OS 2.4 is available as of September 2019 Please see SAS Note 9193 for issues reported with SAS versions 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4. Please note that older SAS releases have not been extensively tested with z/OS 2.4. z/OS 2.5 is available as of September 2021 Please see SAS Note 9193 for issues reported with SAS versions 9.2, 9.3, and 9.4. Please note that older SAS releases have not been extensively tested with z/OS 2.5. z/OS 3.1 is available as of September 2023 Please see SAS Note 9193 for issues reported with SAS versions 9.4. Please note that older SAS releases have not been tested with z/OS 3.1.

Important Links & Notes

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Details of Supported Operating Systems were found using the above criteria.

z/OS Platform Release Support Level Comment z/OS: V3R1 and higher Standard z/OS: V2R1 and higher Standard z/OS: V1R11 and higher Standard

The following notes apply to all releases of SAS:

• SMP/E installation not available
• No Operating System customization required.
• Installation Verification Procedure provided

Important Links & Notes: z/OS

• For the latest information about system maintenance or fixes required with combinations of SAS releases and z/OS releases, see SAS Note 9193.
• What's New in SAS
• Migration Information
• If your deployment includes one or more Business Intelligence, Data Integration, or solution products and is metadata-based, you might be able to use the SAS Migration Utility.
• Support Services for Current and Prior Releases of Software
• Baseline and Higher Support
• Product Advisory Notices from SAS
• Installations might wish to take advantage of some SAS features that do require OS customization. Details are in the Installation/Configuration guide for each release.
• SAS has not been tested with earlier versions of z/OS than those shown for each SAS release. We cannot guarantee support when running on a z/OS version that is older than the specified release.
• SAS does not test SAS software that is in Limited Support status with new versions of z/OS.
• SAS Support for Alternative Operating Systems