Hi there,
Not sure which of the CI6.6 products you currently have - and that will significantly influence the approach, effort needed and duration of an upgrade.
My advice would be to reach out to your local SAS Professional Services team to work with you to assess the current environment and put together an upgrade project with you. It may be your organisation can do a significant proportion of the work; alternatively you may benefit from the Professional Services team being heavily involved, It will all depend on your particular scenario.
One good activity to start whilst you engage your local PS team... start review the current campaigns and associated objects (export definitions; campaign definitions etc) to identify any campaigns or objects that are no longer active. The less old, and unused, content you migrate the easier and cleaner it will be
Hope that helps
Hi @gorata , do you update to 6.6 successully? is there any specail hotfix needed ?
We also plan to update our MA and RTDM to 6.6, it is really a hard task for us, even answer the question from high level management :" what is the benifit for updating to 6.6?"
"we have risk and cost, no benifit for business, but no better choice for us" ~ they are unhappy for this answer
Happy or not, there is not much choice - Flash-based version will just stop working (and possibly stop being supported to? not sure about it) after Dec 31. The benefit is business continuity.
Functional improvements exist both for MA and RTDM but are relatively minor (though to whom how); Both MA and RTDM improvements a listed in the What's New section in the documentation (Users Guides) as available on the Support portal...
Yes, you are correct. Since Adobe will end support of Flash Player on December 31, 2020.
Google and Microsoft are eventually planning to remove Flash completely by the end of 2020.
I work on SAS products more than 15 years, for this first time, I must say: we no better choice...
thanks for your reply, sas consultant have a demo for us for the new 6.6 UI , it looks similar for 6.5.
our CRM manager tell me it looks like a "ancient style" 🙂
I will also keep you posted...
We have actually performed the 6.6 upgrade now. There were a few issues but they were mainly linked to our platform. There are some 'bugs' in the 6.6 version of SAS CI Studio and SAS are working on those with urgency. But our users on the whole are happy with the HTML5 version and we are now ready for Flash removal.
Hi John ,
would you be able to help us wth the steps required for the migration . What are all things need to be taken care of ?
Thanks
Sangeeta
There is a migration guide which is available form SAS and you will need to request this from your SAS account manager as it is not available on the web site. You need to ensure your platform is fully up to date. We had to add more storage to cover backing up our platform config files before the upgrade and add extra memory to SASServer1_1.
Be aware that so far we have discovered 4 'defects' within the html5 version of SAS CI Studio which is impacting our users.
Hi @ravindrrapaal ,
You must have crazy RTDM flows to have more than 150+ nodes in one diagram. Just curious on your work around for this kind of problem. Did you move some of the nodes into subdiagrams? Or just try consolidating some of the nodes into a SAS process node instead?
Regards,
JC
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