topic Re: Naming of SAS release in Administration and Deployment

Naming of SAS release

thesasuser — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:30:44 GMT

A typical SAS release may have the name for example SAS 9.4TS1M0.

In addition there may be a revision number showing week and year say 14w24 (week 24 of year 2014).

As I understand it M- stands for maintenance releases. This has solution/fix for customer reported issues

TS stands for technical support

In the above release TS1 - Technical Support 1

and M0- maintenance release 0

My question is what improvements this TS represent?

Re: Naming of SAS release

alexal — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:33:02 GMT

@thesasuser,

This is Technical Support level (TSLEVEL). The format of a Technical Support level is TSxMy.

Re: Naming of SAS release

ShelleySessoms — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 07:31:32 GMT

This link provides information on that particular release: http://support.sas.com/kb/51/786.html

Re: Naming of SAS release

PaigeMiller — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:41:34 GMT

That link does not work. 😞

Re: Naming of SAS release

ShelleySessoms — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:49:33 GMT

Hi @PaigeMiller,

There was an extra space in the url. Fixed now. Thanks!

Re: Naming of SAS release

thesasuser — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:10:37 GMT

Thanks everybody for your time and efforts in answering the question.

My understanding is that the Maintenance level (M)represents removal of bugs or customer reported issues.
What I am trying to understand is what type of change /improvement does TSLEVEL represent ? Does it mean addition of new features or improved functionality/performance of existing features?

Not every time the letters TSx are used. There must be some reason or logic for it to be used.
Thanks everybody in anticipation.

Re: Naming of SAS release

alexal — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:51:37 GMT

@thesasuser,

Do not pay attention to that number. That number is increasing in very rare cases.

Re: Naming of SAS release

Reeza — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:53:36 GMT

@thesasuser wrote:

Thanks everybody for your time and efforts in answering the question.

My understanding is that the Maintenance level (M)represents removal of bugs or customer reported issues.
What I am trying to understand is what type of change /improvement does TSLEVEL represent ? Does it mean addition of new features or improved functionality/performance of existing features?

Not every time the letters TSx are used. There must be some reason or logic for it to be used.
Thanks everybody in anticipation.

I'm not sure that's true. To understand what's new for each release, there is a SAS document that details what's new in each release, but I don't think there's hard and fast rules about not implementing new procedures with only a TS Level change or such.

Re: Naming of SAS release

SASKiwi — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:38:30 GMT

@thesasuser - In the past few maintenance releases (9.4 M0 - M5) there has been some pretty significant additional functionality and improvements. New product versions are now delivered as part of or within the cycle of maintenance releases. An example of this is Visual Analytics 7.4 coinciding with SAS 9.4M4.

Re: Naming of SAS release

thesasuser — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:26:57 GMT

I would like to thanks every body individually for taking your precious time and sharing your knowledge and thoughts on the issue.
SAS is a carefully crafted product. It is my opinion that there must be some specific reason for using the letters TS. My question was not directed to any individual release.
Anyway thanks for your time. I will be closing the question.

Re: Naming of SAS release

Sajid01 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:30:27 GMT

Hello
I too have this question.
What is the conceptual difference between technical support (TS-say M1) number and maintenance release(M-say M6).

What type of updates/improvement come in each of those categories.(TS and M).
There must be a reason for them to be mentioned.
I wish somebody from SAS enlightened the community.

Re: Naming of SAS release

Reeza — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:33:22 GMT

Each release has a What's New section that illustrates what's new. Bigger changes will result in a change in TS and smaller changes are managed by M.

There are not hard and fast rules what is a big change and what is smaller changes.

In this last versions (9.4) procs being added, changes to procedures and new features in ODS are all included in the M level releases.