SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

6 Chapter 1 / Understanding the Process for Software Updates
2 Determine what products you currently have at your site. Run a deployment registry
report to determine what products you currently have installed at your site. For more
information, see “How to Run the Deployment Registry Report” on page 14.
3 Assess the impact of upgrading the software at your site.
After running the deployment registry report, you should know the release numbers
for the products at your site. Compare these release numbers to the release
numbers of the products in this document. A difference in release numbers will help
you identify what products at your site have updates.
By reviewing the product-specific information in this document, you can determine
how upgrading your software could affect your site. For example, you will learn
about any new features that are available and how those features might affect your
existing SAS content. You also learn any post-configuration steps that you need to
complete before you start using the product.
4 Contact your SAS account representative to request a new product release or
maintenance release. To request a maintenance release, the SAS Installation
Representative at your site can also use the self-service application that is available
from the Maintenance Release Announcement. See the “Request a Maintenance
Release” topic at the bottom of http://support.sas.com/software/maintenance.
5 Review your software order. After you request a maintenance release, a product
upgrade, or a new SAS product, you receive a Software Order E-mail (SOE), which
lists the product bundle that you ordered and the software revision number (such as
SAS 9.3, Rev. 930_11w50).
6 Prepare your site for the software updates. These preparations include downloading
the order to a SAS 9.3 Software Depot, creating backups, determining how long the
upgrade will take, and notifying users about the scheduled update. You also perform
any pre-installation steps for the products at your site. You determined these preinstallation
steps when you assessed the impact of the software update at your site.
7 Install and configure any software updates. When you run the SAS Deployment
Wizard, SAS automatically detects any files on your system that are older than the
files in your order. If there are software updates to be installed for products already
in your deployment, the SAS Deployment Wizard goes into Update mode. If no