SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

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Chapter 4 / Updating Operating Environments and Third-Party Software . . . . . . . . 25
Support for Operating Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Modifying the Date-and-Time Stamps for Non-
Versioned Files in UNIX Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Additional Support for Third-Party Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 5 / Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
How Much Time Should I Allow for Applying a
Maintenance Release? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
How Can I Optimize the Download of a Maintenance Release? . . . . . 30
Can I Add New Products While Applying a Maintenance Release? . 30
How Do I Know If the Maintenance Release
Installed Successfully? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
How Do I Validate a Deployment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
How Can I Determine Whether a Maintenance
Release Has Already Been Applied? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Can I Uninstall a Maintenance Release? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
PART 3 Preparing Your Site for a Software Update
33
Chapter 6 / Assessing the Effect on Products at Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Review the List of Products at Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Review the Product Details and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 7 / Using Backups and Restoring Customizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Estimating Disk Space Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating and Removing Backup Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Effect on Customizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 8 / Undeploying SAS Web Applications and Stopping
the Web Application Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Why You Need to Undeploy the SAS Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43