topic Re: SAS 9.4 TS1M3 to 9.4 TS1M5 in Administration and Deployment

SAS 9.4 TS1M3 to 9.4 TS1M5

vkrishna — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:04:43 GMT

Hi,

Can we upgrade the SAS server to new maintenance release by applying hot fixes instead of SAS software depot?

It works?

Windows server 2012 R2, single machine

Office analytics

SASKiwi — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:37:16 GMT

Unfortunately not. Maintenance releases include new functionality and hence new software.

vkrishna — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:41:52 GMT

Thanks @SASKiwi. If we upgrade to new maintenance release it will change the system options? like memsize.

SASKiwi — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:53:08 GMT

It's possible, but if you have applied your own modifications in the "user mods" config files then these won't be overwritten.

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:17:02 GMT

I think @SASKiwi is following up greatly your questions.

Just a couple of additions to his guide:

For software updates, please check the guide, always very useful http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=whatsdiff&docsetTarget=titlepage.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en
If you are concerned about loosing settings:
- Customisations to compute must go to _usermods files. If any change is out of those files, you should keep a copy of the non-usermods files.
- Also, if you have web applications and since you will need to rebuild and redeploy them, every customisation to web applications (such as timeouts or themes) should be copied and restored after the maintenance, by you.
- You should always make a good backup of the system before any big change, as a maintenance level application.

vkrishna — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 05:37:46 GMT

You mentioned that

Also, if you have web applications and since you will need to rebuild and redeploy them, every customisation to web applications (such as timeouts or themes) should be copied and restored after the maintenance, by you.

Yes, we have applications.

Is it required or mandatory to rebuild and redeploy the web applications after upgrade?

Thanks,