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?
This is Technical Support level (TSLEVEL). The format of a Technical Support level is TSxMy.
This link provides information on that particular release: http://support.sas.com/kb/51/786.html
That link does not work. 😞
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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