SAS 9.4 licensed / installed products Questions

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Questions first...then code

Q1. When you buy SAS / (DATA) Access do you get access to everything or is sold by A la carte?

Example, SAS / ODBC

Q2: SAS / Access to PC

a. (Is this needed to use the SAS-MS-Office Addins)?

b. Will this work with Office/Microsoft 365 or just on-premise Office)?

Q3: I saw two products I have no idea what they are:

a. What is SAS High Performance Suite? Is a suite of SAS tools for HPC(High Performance Computing)?

b. SAS IML? Is this Data Access to IBM's IML or is this something different?

Q4: How can you tell what type of system SAS is installed on?

a. Operating System:   SUN 64  .  Is this really a Solaris or an Oracle Unix(Oracle bought Sun)?

b. What does this mean? "29NOV2022 (CPU A)"  I know what the date means but CPU A? Can you tell how many cores are on this system through SAS or is SAS only licensed to Core A?

======Terminal Output

I ran the system product command on customer's SAS installation but it shows this:

For Base SAS Software ...

   Custom version information: 9.4_M7

   Image version information: 9.04.01M7P080520

For SAS/STAT ...

Custom version information: 15.2

For SAS/GRAPH ...

   Custom version information: 9.4_M7

For SAS/IML ...

   Custom version information: 15.2

For SAS Integration Technologies ...

   Custom version information: 9.4_M7

For SAS/Secure 168-bit ...

   Custom version information: 9.41_M4

For SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files ...

   Custom version information: 9.4_M7

For SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC ...

   Custom version information: 9.4_M7

For High Performance Suite ...

   Custom version information: 2.2_M8

The SAS System

NOTE: PROCEDURE PRODUCT_STATUS used (Total process time):

      real time           0.07 seconds

      cpu time            0.04 seconds

20       

21         proc setinit;

22         run;

NOTE: PROCEDURE SETINIT used (Total process time):

      real time           0.00 seconds

      cpu time            0.00 seconds

Original site validation data

Current version: 9.04.01M7P080620

Site name:   [Information Removed]

Site number:  [Information Removed]

CPU A: Model name='' model number='' serial=''.

Expiration:   29NOV2022.

Grace Period:  15 days (ending 14DEC2022).

Warning Period: 20 days (ending 03JAN2023).

System birthday:   02FEB2022.

Operating System:   SUN 64  .

Product expiration dates:

---Base SAS Software                                                                                   

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS/STAT                                                                                            

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS/GRAPH                                                                                           

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS/IML                                                                                             

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Integration Technologies                                                                        

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS/Secure 168-bit                                                                                  

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Enterprise Guide                                                                                 

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files                                                                    

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC                                                                         

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS/IML Studio                                                                                      

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Workspace Server for Local Access                                                               

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Workspace Server for Enterprise Access                                                          

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---High Performance Suite                                                                              

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Add-in for Microsoft Excel                                                                      

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Add-in for Microsoft Outlook                                                                    

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint                                                                 

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

---SAS Add-in for Microsoft Word                                                                       

29NOV2022 (CPU A)

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

Q1. When you buy SAS / (DATA) Access do you get access to everything or is sold by A la carte?

Example, SAS / ODBC

SAS/ACCESS to ODBC gives you the ability to access all ODBC-compliant databases.

Q2: SAS / Access to PC

a. (Is this needed to use the SAS-MS-Office Addins)?

No, those are separate. It provides the ability to read and write MS Office-type files like Excel spreadsheets and Access databases.

The Office Add-In adds functionality to the MS Office product itself so you can connect to a SAS server from it.

b. Will this work with Office/Microsoft 365 or just on-premise Office)?

It works with both.

Q3: I saw two products I have no idea what they are:

a. What is SAS High Performance Suite? Is a suite of SAS tools for HPC(High Performance Computing)?

It's not really a separate product. I'm pretty sure it works with SAS/STAT high performance procedures.

b. SAS IML? Is this Data Access to IBM's IML or is this something different?

No, IML is a SAS-proprietary matrix language.

Q4: How can you tell what type of system SAS is installed on?

a. Operating System:   SUN 64  .  Is this really a Solaris or an Oracle Unix(Oracle bought Sun)?

I think this is Solaris only. You can check out the server in more detail by remotely logging onto it and using OS commands.

b. What does this mean? "29NOV2022 (CPU A)"  I know what the date means but CPU A? Can you tell how many cores are on this system through SAS or is SAS only licensed to Core A?

I suspect you are licensed for how ever many CPU cores are on your Solaris server. You can always ask SAS Tech Support for confirmation.