topic Re: SAS 9.4 licensed / installed products Questions in New SAS User

topic Re: SAS 9.4 licensed / installed products Questions in New SAS User https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-9-4-licensed-installed-products-Questions/m-p/821433#M34919 <P>Q1. When you buy SAS / (DATA) Access do you get access to everything or is sold by A la carte?</P> <P>Example, SAS / ODBC</P> <P><EM>SAS/ACCESS to ODBC gives you the ability to access all ODBC-compliant databases.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Q2: SAS / Access to PC</P> <P>a. (Is this needed to use the SAS-MS-Office Addins)?</P> <P><EM>No, those are separate. It provides the ability to read and write MS Office-type files like Excel spreadsheets and Access databases.</EM></P> <P><EM>The Office Add-In adds functionality to the MS Office product itself so you can connect to a SAS server from it.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>b. Will this work with Office/Microsoft 365 or just on-premise Office)?</P> <P><EM>It works with both.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Q3: I saw two products I have no idea what they are:</P> <P>a. What is SAS High Performance Suite? Is a suite of SAS tools for HPC(High Performance Computing)?</P> <P><EM>It's not really a separate product. I'm pretty sure it works with SAS/STAT high performance procedures.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>b. SAS IML? Is this Data Access to IBM's IML or is this something different?</P> <P><EM>No, IML is a SAS-proprietary matrix language.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Q4: How can you tell what type of system SAS is installed on?</P> <P>a. Operating System:   SUN 64  .  Is this really a Solaris or an Oracle Unix(Oracle bought Sun)?</P> <P><EM>I think this is Solaris only. You can check out the server in more detail by remotely logging onto it and using OS commands.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>b. What does this mean? "29NOV2022 (CPU A)"  I know what the date means but CPU A? Can you tell how many cores are on this system through SAS or is SAS only licensed to Core A?</P> <P><EM>I suspect you are licensed for how ever many CPU cores are on your Solaris server. You can always ask SAS Tech Support for confirmation.</EM> </P> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:57:47 GMT SASKiwi 2022-07-03T20:57:47Z SAS 9.4 licensed / installed products Questions https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-9-4-licensed-installed-products-Questions/m-p/821429#M34918 <P>Questions first...then code</P> <P> </P> <P>Q1. When you buy SAS / (DATA) Access do you get access to everything or is sold by A la carte?</P> <P>Example, SAS / ODBC</P> <P> </P> <P>Q2: SAS / Access to PC</P> <P>a. (Is this needed to use the SAS-MS-Office Addins)?</P> <P>b. Will this work with Office/Microsoft 365 or just on-premise Office)?</P> <P> </P> <P>Q3: I saw two products I have no idea what they are:</P> <P>a. What is SAS High Performance Suite? Is a suite of SAS tools for HPC(High Performance Computing)?</P> <P>b. SAS IML? Is this Data Access to IBM's IML or is this something different?</P> <P> </P> <P>Q4: How can you tell what type of system SAS is installed on?</P> <P>a. Operating System:   SUN 64  .  Is this really a Solaris or an Oracle Unix(Oracle bought Sun)?</P> <P>b. What does this mean? "29NOV2022 (CPU A)"  I know what the date means but CPU A? Can you tell how many cores are on this system through SAS or is SAS only licensed to Core A?</P> <P> </P> <P>======Terminal Output</P> <P>I ran the system product command on customer's SAS installation but it shows this:</P> <P> </P> <P>For Base SAS Software ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 9.4_M7</P> <P>   Image version information: 9.04.01M7P080520</P> <P>For SAS/STAT ...</P> <P>Custom version information: 15.2</P> <P>For SAS/GRAPH ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 9.4_M7</P> <P>For SAS/IML ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 15.2</P> <P>For SAS Integration Technologies ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 9.4_M7</P> <P>For SAS/Secure 168-bit ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 9.41_M4</P> <P>For SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 9.4_M7</P> <P>For SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 9.4_M7</P> <P>For High Performance Suite ...</P> <P>   Custom version information: 2.2_M8</P> <P> </P> <P>The SAS System</P> <P> </P> <P>NOTE: PROCEDURE PRODUCT_STATUS used (Total process time):</P> <P>      real time           0.07 seconds</P> <P>      cpu time            0.04 seconds</P> <P> </P> <P>20       </P> <P> </P> <P>21         proc setinit;</P> <P> </P> <P>22         run;</P> <P> </P> <P>NOTE: PROCEDURE SETINIT used (Total process time):</P> <P>      real time           0.00 seconds</P> <P>      cpu time            0.00 seconds</P> <P> </P> <P>Original site validation data</P> <P>Current version: 9.04.01M7P080620</P> <P>Site name:   [Information Removed]</P> <P>Site number:  [Information Removed]</P> <P> </P> <P>CPU A: Model name='' model number='' serial=''.</P> <P>Expiration:   29NOV2022.</P> <P>Grace Period:  15 days (ending 14DEC2022).</P> <P>Warning Period: 20 days (ending 03JAN2023).</P> <P>System birthday:   02FEB2022.</P> <P>Operating System:   SUN 64  .</P> <P>Product expiration dates:</P> <P> </P> <P>---Base SAS Software                                                                                   </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS/STAT                                                                                            </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS/GRAPH                                                                                           </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS/IML                                                                                             </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Integration Technologies                                                                        </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS/Secure 168-bit                                                                                  </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Enterprise Guide                                                                                 </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files                                                                    </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC                                                                         </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS/IML Studio                                                                                      </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Workspace Server for Local Access                                                               </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Workspace Server for Enterprise Access                                                          </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---High Performance Suite                                                                              </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Add-in for Microsoft Excel                                                                      </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Add-in for Microsoft Outlook                                                                    </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint                                                                 </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P>---SAS Add-in for Microsoft Word                                                                       </P> <P>29NOV2022 (CPU A)</P> <P> </P> <P> </P> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:18:39 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-9-4-licensed-installed-products-Questions/m-p/821429#M34918 Residentx10 2022-07-03T20:18:39Z Re: SAS 9.4 licensed / installed products Questions https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-9-4-licensed-installed-products-Questions/m-p/821433#M34919 <P>Q1. When you buy SAS / (DATA) Access do you get access to everything or is sold by A la carte?</P> <P>Example, SAS / ODBC</P> <P><EM>SAS/ACCESS to ODBC gives you the ability to access all ODBC-compliant databases.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Q2: SAS / Access to PC</P> <P>a. (Is this needed to use the SAS-MS-Office Addins)?</P> <P><EM>No, those are separate. It provides the ability to read and write MS Office-type files like Excel spreadsheets and Access databases.</EM></P> <P><EM>The Office Add-In adds functionality to the MS Office product itself so you can connect to a SAS server from it.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>b. Will this work with Office/Microsoft 365 or just on-premise Office)?</P> <P><EM>It works with both.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Q3: I saw two products I have no idea what they are:</P> <P>a. What is SAS High Performance Suite? Is a suite of SAS tools for HPC(High Performance Computing)?</P> <P><EM>It's not really a separate product. I'm pretty sure it works with SAS/STAT high performance procedures.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>b. SAS IML? Is this Data Access to IBM's IML or is this something different?</P> <P><EM>No, IML is a SAS-proprietary matrix language.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Q4: How can you tell what type of system SAS is installed on?</P> <P>a. Operating System:   SUN 64  .  Is this really a Solaris or an Oracle Unix(Oracle bought Sun)?</P> <P><EM>I think this is Solaris only. You can check out the server in more detail by remotely logging onto it and using OS commands.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>b. What does this mean? "29NOV2022 (CPU A)"  I know what the date means but CPU A? Can you tell how many cores are on this system through SAS or is SAS only licensed to Core A?</P> <P><EM>I suspect you are licensed for how ever many CPU cores are on your Solaris server. You can always ask SAS Tech Support for confirmation.</EM> </P> Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:57:47 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-9-4-licensed-installed-products-Questions/m-p/821433#M34919 SASKiwi 2022-07-03T20:57:47Z