Thanks for the replies, Given that the responses suggested we shouldn't have any problems running into the warning period, we decided not to upset our IT guys over christmas, let the licence go into the warning period and do the update post new year. Everything carried on running as we would have expected but for future reference this is what we saw... Pop-up warning when running first code in an Enterprise guide session. Log file warnings similar to the following (first run in the session only). WARNING: The SAS/GRAPH product with which GSLIDE (2) is associated will be expiring soon, and is currently in warning mode to indicate this upcoming expiration. Please run PROC SETINIT to obtain more information on your warning period. &SYSCC is left equal to 0 even if warning shows (rather than being set to 4 for normal warnings). ... View more

Some archaeology led me to hot fix bundle 82bx09s2 which seems to have gone some way to making things work. I'm still getting a font warning at startup but if I ignore it SAS does at least seem to behave normally otherwise. Next task is to throw some code at it.... ... View more