SAS 9.4 M5

[againreddy]

Hi All,

We would like to upgrade to the new SAS version sas 9.4 M5 from SAS 9.4 M3. 

Have anybody installed and faced any issues with the new version ? . 

We have below products installed on our Linux machine.

Base SAS Software

SAS/STAT

SAS/GRAPH

SAS/ETS

SAS/CONNECT

SAS Enterprise Miner

SAS Integration Technologies

SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files

SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC

SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata

SAS Metadata Bridges for General Industry Standards

SAS Workspace Server for Local Access

High Performance Suite

SAS Add-in for Microsoft Excel

Please advice .

Thanks

Naga.

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

To explore 9.4 M5 this is a good place to start:

https://support.sas.com/software/maintenance/index.html

Installing a new maintenance release takes several days depending on the complexity of your SAS environment. I would strongly advise investigating the benefits of upgrading versus the resources required to do it and the potential downtime involved.

[againreddy]

Has anybody using it now? 

[SASKiwi]

9.4 M5 was officially released about 3 weeks ago, so I doubt there would be many SAS sites running it yet.

[JuanS_OCS]

Hello @againreddy, Naga,

have you followed the guide provided by @SASKiwi? The update process should be, generally, quite straight forward, specially if you follow the guide. I already updated several systems to M5 and it goes quite fine.

Check out the Guide to software udpates: http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=whatsdiff&docsetTarget=titlepage.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale...

If you have any specific question, please do not hesitate to share it with us. Otherwise, please follow the guide, it really helps!

Kind regards,

Juan

[Yaswantha001]

Hi All,

We have plans to upgrade from SAS 9.4M2 to M5 and would need help on detailed steps and documentation if there is any.

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Yaswanth

[JuanS_OCS]

Hello @suraj4,

could you already check any of those?

http://support.sas.com/kb/52/667.html

http://support.sas.com/kb/52/668.html

https://jira.hyperic.com/browse/HHQ-4206

[againreddy]

We had smooth Upgrade on our dev server . However, We encountered below issues while testing the reports.

1. Receiving SQL plan error when you have left join with the table and with fixed value in computed column and the computed column should be in group by .

2. We may have adjust the grap/picture sizes when we print the report using ods doc.

SAS techsupport is helping on them.