Staying Up-to-date with

SAS®9 Software and

Documentation
Gavin Goh
Business Intelligence Specialist
14 Nov 2006

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 Agenda

Documentation

Platform Administration

Software

Free Tutorials

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 Documentation

Provided with all SAS products

Used to come in paper form

Now available on
• CDROM
• Internet
http://support.sas.com/documentation/

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 Documentation

SAS Online 9.1.3 for the Web

http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/

SAS 9.1.3 Documentation in PDF

http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/
91pdf/index_913.html

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 Platform Administration

SAS®9 Intelligence Platform

Three versions – latest 9.1.3

A lot more tasks involved
• Overview
• Pre-install checklists
• Administrative (metadata, data connectivity, clients, etc)
• Security-related (authentication, authorisation, single
sign-on)

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 Platform Administration Documentation

SAS® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform

Administration Guide, Fifth Edition
http://support.sas.com/documentation/configuration/bicag.pdf

SAS® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform

Security Administration Guide
http://support.sas.com/documentation/configuration/bisecag.pdf

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 Software

Can exist on three tiers:

• SAS-Tier
− SAS Foundation (e.g. 9.1.3 SP4, 9.1.2, 9.1)
• Mid-Tier
− Web Applications (e.g. Portal, Web Report Studio)
• Client-Tier
− Java clients (e.g. SAS Management Console, Data
Integration Studio)
− .NET client (e.g. SAS Enterprise Guide, Add-in to
Microsoft Office)

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 Software – Versioning
Product Current Release Older
Releases
SAS Foundation 9.1.3 SP4 9.1.3 SP3,
9.1.2
Information Delivery Portal 2.0 2.0
(v913sp4) (v913sp3)
Web Report Studio/Viewer 3.1 2.1
Web OLAP Viewer for Java 3.1 2.1
SAS Web OLAP Viewer for .NET 1.3 1.2

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 Software – Versioning (cont’d)
Product Current Release Older
Releases
Enterprise Guide 4.1 3.0
Add-in to MS Office 2.1 1.1
Management Console 9.1
(Implementation Version
9.1.20060613.57655)
Data Integration Studio 3.4 3.3, 3.2
(formerly known as ETL Studio)
OLAP Cube Studio 9.1
(Implementation Version
9.1.20040728)
Information Map Studio 3.1 2.1
Enterprise Miner Desktop 5.2 5.1
Enterprise Miner Java Client 5.2.2 5.1
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 Version – How to Identify

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 Version – How to Identify

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 Version – How to Identify

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 Software

How to get latest and greatest?

• Tell your SAS administrator
• Contact your SAS Account Manager
• Not something you can download from the web (i.e. not
like hotfixes)

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 Hotfixes

Address software issues uncovered by customer

applications

Provide a quick solution to an immediate problem

System maintenance

ALERT issues
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_sbcs_home_alert.html

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 Service Pack

A software update containing system

enhancements and bug fixes in one installable
package

Available only for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3).

Contain all previously released SAS 9.1.3 hot
fixes

Downloaded from the SAS Hot Fix web site

Must be applied to your system before installing
any currently available hot fixes

Some SAS Solutions are not supported on
Service Pack 4
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 Hotfixes

When are they released?

• Subscribe to TSNEWS-L
http://support.sas.com/techsup/news/tsnews.html

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 Upgrading SAS® BI Applications

Guide to assist with upgrade of existing BI

software

High level 6-step upgrade procedure

Not for BI installs lower than version 2.1

Latest version of PDF guide:
http://support.sas.com/biupgrade

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 Benefits of Having New Releases

New features

Fix bugs

More productive time

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 Free Tutorials

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 Free Tutorials

Conceptual overviews

Step-by-step instructions

Most popular:
• SAS Enterprise Guide
• SAS Data Integration Studio
• SAS Enterprise Miner

Browser-based

http://www.sas.com/apps/elearning/elearning_co
urses.jsp?cat=Free+Tutorials

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 Summary

Make support.sas.com your best friend

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