SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

Audience
Using This Book
This document is for existing SAS customers who are upgrading from SAS 9.1.3 or SAS
9.2 to SAS 9.3. It is also for customers who are applying a maintenance release to SAS
9.3. The initial release of SAS 9.3 TS1M0, Rev. 930_11w29 was in July 2011. The
purpose of this document is to notify customers about changes that they might see in
SAS 9.3 and how those changes might affect their site. Specific information about
migrating your SAS content is available in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Migration
Guide.
This document is organized into the following parts:
n “Introduction to Updating SAS Software at Your Site” provides information that is
common to any software upgrade.
This part contains the following information:
o a policy statement for maintenance releases at SAS
o a description of the general process for software updates
o definitions of some of the terminology that is used in this document
o an explanation of product releases numbers
n “Planning for a Software Update” helps you assess whether your site is ready for a
software upgrade.
Here is some of the information that you want to review as you plan to update the
software at your site:
o what products you currently have installed at your site
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