Migration to SAS 9.4M8

[kumarsandip975]

Hi Co's,

As per post - SAS Help Center: What’s New in SAS 9.4 Guide to Software Updates

As per given list. What is difference between new or updated and shipped products? 

I am assuming, New - entire new software is coming with M8, update means - existing products will be have latest version update. 

I am not quite sure with Shipped a maintenance release of products, can you please suggest. 

SAS 9.4M8 Is Released

These products are new or updated in SAS 9.4M8:

• Base 9.4M8. For more information, see Base 9.4M8.
• SAS Business Data Network 3.4. For more information, see SAS Business Data Network.
• SAS Data Remediation 2.5. For more information, see SAS Data Remediation.
• SAS Enterprise Miner 15.3. For more information, see SAS Enterprise Miner.
• SAS/ETS 15.3. For more information, seeSAS/ETS.
• SAS Environment Manager 2.7. For more information, see SAS Environment Manager.
• SAS Factory Miner 15.3. For more information, see SAS Factory Miner.
• SAS Forecast Server 15.3. For more information, see SAS Forecast Server.
• SAS High-Performance Risk 4.3. For more information, see SAS High-Performance Risk.
• SAS/IML 15.3. For more information, see SAS/IML.
• SAS Infrastructure for Risk Management 3.7.
• SAS/IntrNet 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS/IntrNet.
• SAS Lineage 3.4. For more information, see SAS Lineage.
• SAS Model Implementation Platform 3.3. For more information, see SAS Model Implementation Platform.
• SAS Risk Dimensions 6.14. For more information, see SAS Risk Dimensions.
• SAS/OR 15.3. For more information, see SAS/OR.
• SAS/QC 15.3. For more information, see SAS/QC.
• SAS/SECURE. For more information, see SAS/SECURE.
• SAS/STAT 15.3. For more information, see SAS/STAT.
• SAS Text Miner 15.3. For more information, see SAS Text Miner.
• SAS Visual Analytics 7.52. For more information, see SAS Visual Analytics.

Maintenance Releases

These products shipped a maintenance release in SAS 9.4M8:

• SAS Business Rules Manager 3.3M2. For more information, see SAS Business Rules Manager.
• SAS Data Integration Studio 4.906. For more information, see SAS Data Integration Studio.
• SAS Data Quality Server 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS Data Quality Server.
• SAS Decision Manager 3.3M2. For more information, see SAS Decision Manager.
• SAS/GRAPH 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS/GRAPH.
• SAS Grid Manager 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS Grid Manager.
• SAS In-Database Technologies 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS In-Database Technologies.
• SAS Information Map Studio 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS Information Map Studio.
• SAS Integration Technologies 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS Integration Technologies.
• SAS Intelligence Platform 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS Intelligence Platform.
• SAS Micro Analytic Service 2.5M4. For more information, see SAS Micro Analytic Service.

  Note: SAS Micro Analytic Service 2.5M4 is not supported on Solaris.
• SAS Model Manager 14.3M2. For more information, see SAS Model Manager.
• SAS OLAP Server 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS OLAP Server.
• SAS/SHARE 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS/SHARE.
• SAS Web Report Studio 9.4M8. For more information, see SAS Web Report Studio.

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

For the maintenance releases, the version number stays the same, but the maintenance release number changes to M8.

For new or updated list, these are products that have their own independent version number which could be new OR it could remain the same but with the latest maintenance applied.