If you are planning to install SAS 9.4M8 on AIX 7.2 system, please make sure you have the IBM XL C++ runtime libraries (16.1.0 or higher) in place. This is a new requirement since SAS 9.4M8 initially shipped.
The SAS Users Group for Administrators (SUGA) is open to all SAS administrators and architects who install, update, manage or maintain a SAS deployment.